Dotted Lines: Obama and Romney sing Katy Perry

They may be debating serious issues tonight, but that doesn’t mean the presidential candidates are too busy for a pop duet.

Jay Hathaway

Updated on June 2 2021 9:19 am CDT

Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day’s must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines.

A LulzSec member pleads guilty to a 2011 hack of Sony after an online anonymizer service called HideMyAss fails to … well, hide his ass.
Thousands are arrested in China for participating in a criminal operation that extorted money from businesses by threatening to spam them with negative reviews.
British hacker Gary McKinnon has won his decade-long fight to avoid extradition to the United States.
“ReConstitution 2012” offers a live remix of the transcripts of each of this year’s presidential debates, along with some stunning infographics.
Is Facebook really the most valuable brand in the world?

Above: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney duet on Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold” in the latest remix from YouTube phenom baracksdubs.

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Jay Hathaway

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.