We Love the Internet 2019/41: The 12 defining shots of Breaking Bad edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Goodbye to the 2010s, a decade of upcycled culture
• What Happened to Urban Dictionary?
• Fortnite has reached The End – changing video game storytelling for good
• Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken
• Apple: The First Hope-Based Company
• Mouse whisperers: meet the Disney influencers making a living at the Magic Kingdom

Reference points:

• Let’s sort through the good, the missing, and the really, really weird of these Disney+ titles
• What’s Your Hour in ‘Silicon Valley Time’?

Longer reads:

• What Not to Expect
• Streaming video: We hardly knew ye
• Data wars
• Was Etsy too good to be true?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists
• This Video Of A Rocket Sled Going 6,599 MPH Is Bonkers
• i was fascinated with how much of tiktok is underpinned by black culture thematically so i scrolled and recorded everything i saw for 20mins and condensed it

Things to look at/read:

• How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
• Graffiti Artist Creates Amazing Street Art Illusions Using Only Spray Paint
• Let’s talk about sex, baby: How pop music is changing the way we discuss sexuality

Animal corner:

• idk what this rabbit is going through but same bro
• Cat Realizes She Has Ears!

Tweets of the week:

• I just can’t not hear a drunk 21-year-old girl at her sorority formal when I read this
• I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
• Angela Merkel with the face of Steve Bruce.
• as you can see from this beautifully constructed graph, I have distilled the enduring appeal of 1999’s The Mummy down to its core essence

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Heir
• ‘I Really Thought He Was Going to Kill Me and Bury My Body’
• Free Solo climber Alex Honnold’s next summit? The rest of his life
• The Legend of Baltimore Jack

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We Love the Internet 2019/41: The 12 defining shots of Breaking Bad edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Will Smith Cracked the Code on Making Real Money in Hollywood
• Shopify and the return of the merchant class
• My land of make believe: life after The Sims

Reference points:

• The 12 Defining Shots of ‘Breaking Bad’
• The 10 True-Crime Podcasts That Changed Everything

Longer reads:

• How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas
• Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
• Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle?
• The myth of the free speech crisis

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Rejected Lyrics to HBO’s Succession Theme
• Traditional Korean floor
• Friends Theme Song (in a Minor Key)

Things to look at/read:

• What Eton taught me about power
• Weeknight Dinner Around the World
• Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the death of uncritical niceness
• What modern sport needs is more Gladys and less White Stripes

Animal corner:

• Our Mate Found a Bear Locked in His Truck at Campsite in Canada
• Camels Get the Hump When Man Refuses to Share Bread With Them
• Husky Puppy Pinot Walks Down Stairs for the First Time
• Wooden Expression: Dog Tries to Make Statue Play Fetch
• Elephant Tramples Rhino & Baby!
• Parrots incredibly talk to one other like humans

Tweets of the week:

• very accurate impression of a woman i just served
• the joker but he laughs like seth rogen or nicki minaj
• Two free tips for Fox News:
• “You should see the other 29 – 49 guys.”
• As promised, today I want to tell you of how I became friends with a Twitter troll called Angus Gallagher
• This was a rollercoaster.
• Been one year since the best interaction in human history
• Avengers assemble

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
• Who’s in the perfect heist movie crew
• Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame
• The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding
• The Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

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We Love the Internet 2019/40: The Beachheads and obstacles edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Beachheads and Obstacles
• How Data Is Making Hits and Changing the Music Industry
• A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them.
• Once billed as the future of GroupM, mPlatform fades into the background
• What even is Spotify?
• Framestore is invited to visit Downton Abbey
• The (new) golden age of gifs

Reference points:

• The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years

Longer reads:

• What is Amazon?
• How do comedians reveal “the funny”? (pdf)
• The rise and fall of Flash, the annoying plugin that shaped the modern web
• How to major in unicorn

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• World Record Paper Airplane Distance
• Opening a Bottle of Liquid Nitrogen Under Water
• Low Level Display
• Putting a Flag in a Vacuum Chamber to See if Flags Can Wave on the Moon
• Book fountain page by page
• Animal sounds on violin imitation on guitar

Things to look at/read:

• Why Fashion Influencers Are “Pivoting” To Anxiety
• The Rise of ‘Grandmillennial’ Style
• What happened to the guys who invested their life savings in cryptocurrency?
• The Perfection of the Paper Clip

Animal corner:

• Dog saves puppy
• Me realizing that it really do be like that sometimes
• If Liam Gallagher was reincarnated as a bear.
• Guys, i think I found my favourite tiktok
• enjoy this video of my cat’s 6th attempt to jump on the counter.
• My boyfriend told me that our puppy Winston snoozed his alarm the past two days and he was almost late to work. Obviously I didn’t believe him… so he showed me
• Moist owlette
• Skeleton hands massaging cat

Tweets of the week:

• What 16 years of work on physics engines gets you.
• Me interpretive dancing to movie company intros
• Ever noticed Boaty McBoatface (aka the Sir David Attenborough) looks exactly like Hulk Hogan?
• So my boyfriend took me to watch the spurs game at the stadium today…so I wrote a list of the stuff he kept saying to keep myself entertained lol
• billy’s work is almost done
• here’s an Arrested Development/Succession intro i made that absolutely no one asked for
• A video you never thought you needed til now. Aristocats v Lizzo.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The mysterious evacuation of sunspot observatory
• King of pop
• A town for people with chronic fatigue syndrome
• Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pedestrians?
• The Two Sides of Diego Maradona
• Made In America: For $9.50 An Hour, They Brew Tear Gas For Hong Kong

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We Love the Internet 2019/39: The YouTube decade edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Long vs. Short: Has Netflix Peaked?
• I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.
• ‘Spill’ Is A Drama YouTuber Who’s Gotten Nearly 100 Million Views In 11 Months. But She Might Not Be A Real Person.
• FT closes Whatsapp group sharing free stories as platform clamps down on bulk messaging
• Retailers are rethinking their Google Search strategies

Reference points:

• YouTube decade
• Why Is This Taking So Long? A Cognitive Bias Decision Tree
• A fantasy language generator
• A new look and a bolder outlook

Longer reads:

• Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You
• Augmented and virtual reality – emerging legal implications of “The Final Platform”

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Final Day at GHS: June 1999
• More Parkour Atlas
• Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
• 21 Levels of Skateboarding with Tony Hawk: Easy to Complex
• How cheese is made
• TOP 10 from the World Championship of Death Diving

Things to look at/read:

• A finance guy amasses sneaker capital
• Queen of darts

Animal corner:

• Octopus dreaming
• Jam session of the day.
• In competitive diving, points out of 10 are awarded by each of the judges. In an Olympic competition, there are seven judges,
• Bulldog dog > Spot Monkey
• My dog just suped me.

Tweets of the week:

• I have been thinking about this exchange all day
• Hang in there! Help is available.
• When you’re launching the circle at 9:15 and killing Bill at 10:45
• You come to me, on the day of my bisexual girlfriend’s visibility?
• These made-up gay porn titles in Prime Suspect 3 are my new favourite thing in all television.
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a famous comedian before assuming office, starts a presentation with this!
• I did it. I found the worst gender reveal.
• Henry VIII with the hair and earpiece of Phil Brown.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works
• From ‘The Alcatraz of the Rockies’ to the Streets
• When Vegan Influencers Quit Being Vegan, the Backlash Can Be Brutal
• How to Build a Life Without Kids
• The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
• Fools rush out

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We Love the Internet 2019/38: The Got it on Depop edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The cops who abused Photoshop
• Colour-Blind Irish Rugby Fans To See Green For The First Time
• Is NPS truly ‘the growth marketer’s secret weapon’ or more ‘snake oil and fake science’?

Reference points:

• Mobile and social media users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks
• Map age guide

Longer reads:

• Got It on Depop
• Confessions of a Professional White Asshole
• The Sports News Site Haters Love to Dunk on Keeps Signing Up Subscribers

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How to eat eggs
• This 12-Year-Old Has Taken the Art World by Storm
• Why this creepy melody is in so many movies
• System Of A Down – Toxicity with miniature drums
• Strong Man Breaking Stones With Bare Hands Part 2

Things to look at/read:

• Friends Is a Gen X Show. Why Don’t We Ever Call It That?
• Is This the World’s Most Accessible Museum?

Animal corner:

• Goat VS Dog
• Just five poodles skipping some rope
• Chunk front and center grubbin on a cucumber!
• Smart Dog Helps Make Sandwich
• me, two minutes after saying i wasn’t hungry
• Baby crocodiles sound like they’re shooting laser guns and it’s best thing ever
• BAH GAWD CAT, THINK OF YOUR FAMILY! THINK OF YOUR FANS!
• I will never not share this

Tweets of the week:

• Thinking, as I often do, about the time Yahoo News thought “Zooey Deschanel divorces Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard” meant she had left a man named Death Cab to pursue a relationship with the lead singer of the band Cutie
• When Kane signs on to Only Fans..
• My friend’s entire company is locked out of their WeWork office because an umbrella fell, jamming the door.
• doctor doolittle is *the worst*, yet it contains cinema’s greatest minute
• i’d miss every train
• For the past year, I’ve been filming myself scaring my best friend
• If you turn the Chicago bulls logo upside down it’s a robot having sex with a crab
• First PM in history to be corrected by the Incredible Hulk

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The great university con: how the British degree lost its value
• How life became an endless, terrible competition
• The Limits of My Conservatism
• The quickening
• When Will Kirsten Dunst Get Her Due?

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We Love the Internet 2019/37: The I was Caroline Calloway edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Netflix Under Pressure: Can a Hollywood Disruptor Avoid Getting Disrupted?
• The adults in the room
• Has marketing lost its bottle?
• The strange power of the idea of “average”
• The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy
• This Music Video Has Been Modified From Its Original Version (and Now It’s Vertical)
• My Year of Podcasting Dangerously
• Meet the Unfluencers

Reference points:

• What Allyship Means to Netflix Executives
• The 1619 project
• Cloudflare uses lava lamps to generate a fundamental resource: Randomness
• Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
• The rise and rise of Scottish Twitter
• The best 1-star reviews of the Seven Wonders of the World
• The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years

Longer reads:

• I Was Caroline Calloway
• In the Trump Era, a Family’s Fight With Google and Facebook Over Disinformation
• Face recognition, bad people and bad data
• Silicon Valley’s crisis of confidence
• The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
• Netflix’s Carla Engelbrecht Chooses Her Own Adventures
• We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture
• How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The King of Fish and Chips
• Our intern recites all of ‘mean girls’ in less than 30 minutes

Things to look at/read:

• That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law
• Legal action by players should be the next step for online abuse
• The devastating truth about National Avocado Day
• The worst sales promotion in history
• In defense of reading the same book over and over again
• The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt

Animal corner:

• Nah man, they didn’t have to do my man like that.
• This may be my favorite dog video ever.
• Even though you hurt me, I still find ways to be with you
• well, clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?
• Nothing says the weekend like a capybara farting in the bath

Tweets of the week:

• Left this up for my roommates but if anyone needs to quote tweet it and say “same” to go viral, I understand
• EXPECTO PATRONUM!
• My mom: My dog:
• If this her reaction, just wait until someone hands her the other six deadly sins.
• Damn Fatima
• Marvin Gaye with the music and backing vocals removed is astonishing
• fuck sake who’s done these

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Why Is Joe Rogan so popular?
• The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
• If Sapiens were a blog post
• The Dreamcast Died Too Soon, but Its Legacy Lives On
• Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car
• The American Missionary and the Uncontacted Tribe
• Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brand
• Have You Been Daygamed? The New Method Men Are Using To ‘Attract Amazing Women’

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We Love the Internet 2019/36: The Perfection anxiety edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Google Is Tightening Its Grip on Your Website
• Meet the peo­ple mak­ing mon­ey through the thot­shot economy
• Tiktok’s best comedy duo is a loud man and his duck
• The decline of historical thinking

Reference points:

• Urban nudges
• Version museum

Longer reads:

• Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
• When the Internet Chases You From Your Home
• The Big Show Never Ends: How Dan and Keith’s ‘SportsCenter’ Changed TV Forever
• Behind Billie Eilish: Meet the manager’s guiding the artist’s global success

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Catching a strangers phone on roller coaster
• Japan’s 9-Year-Old Drumming Prodigy Never Misses a Beat
• Guys Put A Car Wheel On An Airbag To See What Happens When They Detonate It, Immediately Regret It

Things to look at/read:

• Perfection Anxiety
• Thursday is the best day
• As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive
• Kardashian BFFs Are Here Today And Gone Tomorrow
• This Tumblr Post About Extremism From Four Years Ago Goes Viral After Every Shooting. Its Creator Finally Explained It.
• How Britain killed the Aperol spritz
• The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste

Animal corner:

• Mother dog helps rescuers dig for her buried puppies
• This Dog Getting His Hair Cut By A Barber For The First Time Is The Most Wholesome Thing You’ll See Today
• The worlds most dramatic doggo
• “How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
• Not only proof of evolution, but proof animals are better than us.
• It happened. I found the perfect TikTok video

Tweets of the week:

• before it happens you think “no way is it going to happen…” and then it happens
• he did it all for the bubbly
• A tale of three Britains
• Taylor Swift stans learning who Tool are because they’re currently selling more copies than “Lover” is really something special
• Someone trying to play Soon Yi in the Woody Allen biopic
• Someone commented that Donald Trump stands like a centaur without its hind legs, and now I can’t unsee it.
• neat
• 1970-2012: websites are not very mobile-friendly 😦

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Tricks, Kickflips, and Thumbsticks: An Oral History of the Making of ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’
• The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream
• The cult of Sally Rooney
• The myth of the free speech crisis
• Secrets and Lies in the School Cafeteria
• What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?

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