We Love the Internet 2018/16: The Cake server edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars
• What smartphone photography is doing to our memories
• Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all?
• The rationalization of publishing

Reference points:

• I’m An Internet Writer, And I’m Tired Of This Ubiquitous Headline Formula
• How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays

Longer reads:

• Jersey Shore: An Oral History

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Mindhunter: A Game Called Dialogue
• The Cake Server
• nyoooooooooooom
• I built a PC out of rope and wood…
• NS 290 hits truck Temple
• Gummy Bears vs Molten Salt
• Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren’t
• Baby laughing hysterically at pacifier noise

Things to look at/read:

• Doing Dishes Is the Worst
• Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
• A’s free promotion highlights team’s struggle to draw paying fans
• The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence
• If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
• Just Before Impact
• Let’s all obsess over this intricate map of alt-music history

Animal corner:

• How I Trained My Cats
• “Every time. Every single time”
• Bears vs Hammock

Tweets of the week:

• “we need to have a podcast together” is the millennial “dude, we should totally start a band”
• Tapas is more confident in Granada.
• “CHAI TEA IS REDUNDANT”
• Only this could happen to me, so I’m having a lovely cosy Netflix night… oh a voice note off someone I used to work with how nice… I am actually DEAD! It gets worse by the minute I’m done with life bye
• we’re building self-driving cars
• when you’re funny but ugly
• For any aspiring journalist wondering if they can affect real change…
• ???

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built
• Is Francis Mallmann the most interesting chef in the world?
• The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco
• Landlords Are Offering Young Men Free Rooms In Return For Sex And Facebook Is Letting It Happen
• Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock
• The demise of the nation state
• The life and death of Homaro Cantu, the genius chef who wanted to change the world

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We Love the Internet 2018/15: The Your pretty face is going to sell edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Netflix’s aggressive content-buying spree creates opportunities and risk for creators
• Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale
• Unplugging From the Internet Nearly Destroyed Me
• What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See?
• Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change

Reference points:

• Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell

Longer reads:

• A Reckoning with Reality (TV)
• Why Good People Turn Bad Online
• Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of ‘StarCraft’

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Black Mirror — Now Entering the Twilight Zone
• The Audience Response Duplicator
• The philharmonic turntable orchestra
• Anatomy Of A ‘Fast And Furious’ Chase Scene
• Rusted butcher’s knife – Impossible Restoration
• The smallest sushi on earth
• World’s fastest clapper

Things to look at/read:

• This Guy Was Banned From A Hotel For 17 Years For An Incident Involving Hungry Seagulls And A Suitcase Full Of Pepperoni
• Self-storage: How warehouses for personal junk became a $38 billion industry
• America’s gender-fluid future, in 100 years of baby name trends
• A complete guide to the cinematic references and inspirations of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Animal corner:

• Husky Einstein puppy howl
• Protective Baby Rhino Guards Mother During Toe Treatment
• “i’ve got what i want, I’ll wait in the car”

Tweets of the week:

• me: hi do you guys have- urban outfitters employees:
• Come on man
• “don’t forget to drink the water, humans like water”
• I unironically love this joke.
• When the bus driver sets off before you’ve sat down
• Her name was…. it never suited her
• My kids gonna learn today
• Roses are red *unintelligible grunts*

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘God Made Me Black on Purpose’
• There’s Something Funny About Tiffany Haddish
• The world’s best hitchhiker on the secrets of his success
• Why I’m suing over my dream internship
• “Whatever’s your darkest question, you can ask me.”
• It’s New To You
• The legacy of childhood trauma

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We Love the Internet 2018/14: The Death of the newsfeed edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The death of the newsfeed
• The End of Windows
• Subscribers are the new, new thing in business

Reference points:

• How we wrote and sent the “best cold email ever”
• Our tone of voice
• Right click

Longer reads:

• Toxic management caused an award winning studio to lose its best developers
• Didi Chuxing took on Uber and won. Now it’s taking on the world
• Shenzhen’s Homegrown Cyborg
• The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark
• Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Guy Power Washing Racist Graffiti Is The Most Satisfying Thing You’ll See All Day
• Aubrey Plaza Explores ASMR with Whispers, Peacock Feathers, and Cornflakes
• Here’s Why You Don’t Park Right At The Bottom Of A Snowy Mountain
• How ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Does Running Gags
• How Punching Sounds Are Made For Movies
• Motorcyclist Brake Checks Car, Immediately Regrets That Decision
• Plane Miraculously Flies To Safety After Sudden Engine Failure
• Laura´s Bluetooth Receiver for the Car

Things to look at/read:

• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Omnisexual, gynosexual, demisexual: What’s behind the surge in sexual identities?
• Presenting The 2018 Name Of The Year Bracket
• The Stop: Racial profiling of drivers leaves legacy of anger and fear
• How Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
• How Activists Turned Empty London Property into a Thriving Homeless Shelter
• Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women
• 50+ Absolutely Unexplainable Stock Photos That Will Make You Say WTF

Animal corner:

• Frustrated Moose Smashes Car Window
• When they fake throw the ball again and now you’re just tired of the lies.
• hey listen friend, i don’t want any trouble.
• Baby bounces. Corgi bounces back. They are caught in an infinite loop of cuteness.
• New Bond film looks rubbish

Tweets of the week:

• arctic monkeys new album confirmed for may 11th
• IMA GO TO HELL FOR LAUGHING
• Me: I’m so annoyed of the little boy singing at Walmart Me hearing the remix:
• When you win the argument, but now she not talking to you.
• Ah yes the two genders, ladies and original
• 45 port Ethernet switch with a side stacked 6 port RJ11 to fiber converter box. Old school.
• When you suddenly remember that one embarrassing thing you said 5 years ago
• I’m worried about Sigourney Weaver

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right
• Cutting ‘old heads’ at IBM
• I Went to a Masturbation Class In Search of My Biggest Orgasm Yet
• The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon
• Perfect prams for perfect parents: the rise of the bougie buggy

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We Love the Internet 2018/13: The Dank is the new umami edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Netflix’s Dilemma: Marketing 700 New Original Series Is A Lot Harder Than Making Them
• The Streaming Void
• I Want My ChessTV
• Virtual influencers

Reference points:

• Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age
• 25 songs that tell us where money is going

Longer reads:

• The most valuable business tool ever invented
• Dying laughing

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Honest Trailers – Every Wes Anderson Movie
• Spinners
• How seltzer took over America
• I now have the only Volvo 240 in the world that plays Toto’s Africa as the open door chime!
• Frank Bourgeois: Real Snow 2018 | X Games
• Quick off and true rally fans
• the 19 ways you can say “ha ha, what”
• Only Slightly Exaggerated | Travel Oregon

Things to look at/read:

• Dank is the new umami
• The Bidet’s Revival
• Death tribute cartoons are the embarrassing face of kneejerk social media mourning

Animal corner:

• Rabbit walks on front legs in southwest China
• This Video Of A Groundhog And A Cat That Love Each Other Will Instantly Improve Your Day
• excuse me this is important
• please no touches i need rest so i can grow from small pup to big dog, thank you.
• Can you tell if Charlie got in the trash?

Tweets of the week:

• My poor, poor husband. I “Morissetted” him for over a month. But let me ask you this, how the hell could I ever stop?
• cant stop laughing
• Quite possibly the greatest story teller of our generation
• No one man, should have this much power
• Can I make it any more obvious
• Well this is definitely the saddest “where are your childhood faves now?”
• When your trainer leaves you alone for 10 seconds.
• “Fuck you. I will destroy your business.”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why I’m suing over my dream internship
• Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity
• #FreeMeekMill
• The Man Who Knew Too Little
• The School Shooting Generation Has Had Enough

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We Love the Internet 2018/12: The What it’s like to die online edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What It’s Like to Die Online
• How a Copywriter’s Amazing Tribute to Sprite Got Him Hired at W+K
• Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive
• BuzzFeed is trying to drive appointment viewing on streaming sites
• Silicon Valley Is Having An Existential Crisis Over “Time Well Spent.” But So Are We.
• Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists

Reference points:

• 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Longer reads:

• Design in Tech report 2018
• Reddit and the struggle to detoxify the internet
• The inside story behind Pebble’s demise

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I am just browsing
• Tommy Wiseau’s Joker Audition Tape
• 50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome
• Swanage ice
• Nyjah | ‘Til Death
• My baby boy dancing to MGMT
• Nephew doesn’t know what hit him
• Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Things to look at/read:

• Expert Introductions: The Quietus’ Top 40 Genre Compilation Albums
• The literal translation of country names
• Does anyone have the right to sex?
• A 20-Year-Old Gouged Out Her Own Eyes While In A Drug-Induced Psychosis
• The World Is Better Than Ever. Why Are We Miserable?
• Violin plots
• ‘Some families are too shady to work with’: meet the tutors of the ultra-rich

Animal corner:

• Cat Wants Fish Under Ice
• My sister snapped me this, but I feel like it deserves to be seen by so many more
• This pilot let a baby chimp sit on his lap the whole flight just so he’d feel extra safe
• Surprising move from the referee
• In case you missed my dog learning how to eat a string bean
• His own snoring woke him up and I cannot stop laughing

Tweets of the week:

• the best interaction that i have ever had on this web site
• The new Doctor Who intro is a bit shit
• Nobody talks about Jesus’ miracle of having 12 close friends in his 30s
• The moment my soul left my body..
• I’m afraid this may hurt your head a little.
• Lady in a sandwich shop showed me this video of her son today
• im telling yall mexican kids are a different type of breed
• Instagram account vs Twitter account

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How A Player In The Trump-Russia Scandal Led A Double Life As An American Spy
• Shia Labeouf is ready to talk about it
• Terry Crews Is Not Going Down Without A Fight
• The Billionaire Philanthropist
• What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
• Dragonman, the Man Who Sells “People-Hunting Guns”
• The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t

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We Love the Internet 2018/11: The Structure of stand-up comedy edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Rethinking Work-Life Balance for Women of Colour
• For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It
• Why media companies are shifting their attention from Facebook to YouTube
• Bitcoin: Boon or Bubble?
• The Dark Allegations Behind Some of YouTube’s Most Popular Music Videos
• This company built one of the world’s most efficient warehouses by embracing chaos

Reference points:

• The structure of stand-up comedy
• The Songs That Bind
• AVA: The Art and Science of Image Discovery at Netflix
• Marketers are clueless about media effectiveness – here’s the proof
• You can watch Netflix on any screen you want, but you’re probably watching it on a TV
• Workflow Breakdown of Every Best Picture and Best Editing Oscar Nominee

Longer reads:

• What Does It Cost To Be Big On Instagram?
• Porn Is Not the Worst Thing on Musical.ly
• Media trends that will define 2018

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Song maker
• Steamed Hams Inc.
• A human-robot dance duet
• Skating an Empty Water Park

Things to look at/read:

• The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
• Why Men Should Own Vibrators Too
• I am the very important long read everyone is talking about
• The Tyranny of Convenience
• A Cultural History of the Diva
• How Pop-Ups Took Over America’s Restaurants
• Bachelor producers reportedly track contestant’s menstrual cycles for maximum manipulation

Animal corner:

• Walking the Lazy Dog
• I GOT MY DOG A LIFE JACKET AND SHE FORGOT HOW TO BE A DOG
• You’re doing very well Marley, we’re all right behind you

Tweets of the week:

• First world problem in Iceland.
• Please enjoy this fantastic video of my friend Stevie. It’s one of my favourite things ever
• “You can see Laura Dern say ‘pew’ when she fires the gun, which she could never not do every time she shot it.” — Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Commentary
• ..Paddington!?
• The headline that kicks off the zombie apocalypse we’ve all been waiting for:
• The Daily Mail published an article claiming that ‘no one is 100% straight’ and this is possibly my favourite comment ever.
• this is definitive and i wont be convinced otherwise
• Don’t worry guys, bananas will save us

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Wetherspoon’s conquered Britain
• How many murders can a police informer get away with?
• Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World? (And Why That Question Matters)
• Jennifer Lawrence Is A Prisoner Of Her Cool Girl Image
• The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV

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We Love the Internet 2018/10: The You are the media you eat edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
• What’s Left at Comedy Central?
• How Tiny Red Dots Took Over Your Life
• Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm: How LittleThings went from social publishing darling to shutting down
• The great big Spotify scam
• Is Facebook killing online comedy?
• HQ Trivia Is Dictating When and How Consumers Use Apps and Inspiring a Host of Imitators
• What If This Was Peak Media?

Reference points:

• You Are The Media You Eat
• Six degrees of Wikipedia
• From Energy To Transport To Healthcare, Here Are 8 Industries Being Disrupted By Elon Musk And His Companies
• The Responsive Network
• 10 breakthrough technologies 2018

Longer reads:

• The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme
• Design’s Lost Generation
• Is the ‘Digital Nomad’ Life as Good as It Sounds?
• What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
• Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
• The Greatest Hits of Binet & Field

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Babies Video Chat with Each Other
• The Hidden Formula Behind Almost Every Joke on Late Night
• One Way To Deconstruct There Will Be Blood — Or Any Movie
• The world’s darkest building is at the 2018 Olympics
• Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion
• Jason Voorhees Found at Camp Crystal Lake
• Whoever Designed This Cheat Sheet Eraser Is A Genius
• This kid always goes into statue mode when he gets in trouble

Things to look at/read:

• A Complete History of Happy-Slapping
• A Deep Dive Into ‘Celebs Go Dating’, The Greatest Show on British TV
• No, Fascism Can’t Happen Here
• Yes, bacon really is killing us
• This Is Why Michael B. Jordan Is So Hot
• Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us
• Pop art

Animal corner:

• Funny parrot stomping around like its mad
• Well, Where Else Would You Put the Umbrella?
• Husky fur removing
• I’m, er, not sure it’s working
• it’s called soft crossfit and it’s going really well thank you
• Can’t believe nala just gave 3 year old buddy the British bulldog her half of the biscuit they both shared. In full tears

Tweets of the week:

• Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone.
• i always wonder why twitter is free when it blesses us with moments like this
• Quite simply the best ‘snowman’ I’ve ever seen
• expectation vs. reality
• seems fine
• Probably the best thing you will see on the internet today
• Here’s my definitive turtleneck alignment chart

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
• What Is the Perfect Color Worth?
• Is the British establishment finally finished?
• What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
• Jerry and Marge Go Large
• The poison we pick
• Jordan Peterson’s gospel of masculinity
• Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the “house of gaslight” in the age of #metoo

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