We Love the Internet 2014/23: The Getting old edition

Back after a week’s absence, but still yet to catch-up on everything, so the bumper double edition to make up for the lack of 2014/22 will probably be next week. Instead, this week you get a regularly sized edition, only with stuff that is a bit older than usual

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name – a quick lesson in (statistical) distribution
• Faking Cultural Literacy – obviously first saw this several years ago </saracasm>
• The threat facing online comments – ironically, may be behind the FT paywall
• The tweet that didn’t really take 45 days to write

Reference points

• The internet in real time – how quickly data is generated
• 37 Insanely Clever Logos With Hidden Meanings – the Amazon A to Z logo is another good one
• The death of the homepage in one simple graph – following up on the NY Times innovation article in 2014/21

Longer reads:

• Mary Meeker’s 2014 internet trends presentation – the annual must-read presentation, the re-imagining section is once again really thought-provoking
• How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star
• David Ogilvy’s 10 tips on writing
• Slender Man – the meme blamed for the stabbing of a 12 year old girl

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch:

• You’re getting old – a very scary site detailing all the things that have happened since your birth
• Hipster hobby generator
• All of the English dialogue in “Star Wars”, split into words, and sorted alphabetically – I think we’ve reached peak internet
• Pharrell flusters Krishnan when defending the Blurred Lines lyrics
• Arcade game dancing

Things to look at/read:

• Reddit, can you blow my mind in one sentence?
• Pulp Fiction A to Z
• Mocked up packaging

Animal corner:

• Asian small-clawed otters play the keyboard
• Great Dane puppy doesn’t want to wake up
• Jenga cat
• Sleeping pig wakes up for cookie
• 27 Animals Who Don’t Give A F**k
• 21 Of The Most Adorable Baby Turtles
• World’s worst petkeeper

This week on Tumblr:

• Love in the key of Partridge – worth signing up to Tinder for
• Our incredible journey – how services announce they are shutting down
• Skippable – which episodes of a series can be skipped without missing elements of the overarching narrative
• Video game tumbleweeds
• Guys with Zooeyes – the Deschanel makeover
• Summarybug – displays from a glitch in a Netflix app

Tweets of the week:

• The whole Panini thoughts account
• OAuth client must present server with a TOKEN. Server will return a COOKIE. Give the cookie to the MONKEY. The monkey will lead you to a MAP
• PARTY TIP: Becoming an adult isn’t about giving up what you enjoyed as a child. Becoming an adult is about becoming a super-child.
• a classic revolutionary slogan (updated for the 21st century)
• Well *that* went downhill fast.
• probably because it’s a house phone

Part 3: For the weekend

Reference points:

• Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism – a best of 2013 non-fiction list

Long-form articles:

• Whither blog rock – my playlist featuring Black Kids, CYHSY and Tapes n Tapes still gets heavy playing
• Angelina Jolie’s perfect game – on her public image
• 50 cent is my life coach

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