For those paying attention to the Valleywag-Boing Boing-Violet Blue corner of the blogiverse, the past few days have been a bit of a, well, clusterfuck. For those who haven’t been playing along at home, the short version of the story is this: not too long…

In case you missed it for the five minutes it was up, we have a screencap of the hardcore porn that found its way onto the front page of Gawker earlier today (thanks, Doree!).

We’ve been scratching our heads trying to figure out why, exactly, Nick…