We love the internet and the internet loves us. This week, it has given us…
Things to think about:
- Welcome to Dinovember – brilliant way to get kids’ imaginations going
- Grant Shapps (Tory Chairman as we all know) tried a Buzzfeed listicle. It didn’t go particularly well
- Money can buy happiness – at least with wine
- Am I going insane? Snapchat is essentially worthless
- What I learned building Medium (so far) – by Ev Williams (also behind Twitter)
- Do you know where your children go online – personas of different children, few of whom seem particularly normal
- The rise of messenger apps
Reference points:
- See where in the world the f-bomb is being dropped
- The simple answers to the questions that get asked by every new technology
- The hidden technology that makes Twitter huge – they collect 31 pieces of metadata per tweet
- The complete guide to Tumblr sub-cultures
- 30 great movies you probably haven’t seen – I’ve seen one
- Unsafe password generator
Longer reads:
- Empires of attention – very interesting stuff on culture in the digital age
- The future of digital – slide deck from Henry Blodget of Business Insider. Global and topline, but still useful
- A long profile on Tim Armstrong and AOL – in a similar vein to the recent Marissa Mayer profile
- How a fake person was created on the deep web
- The low budget high pressure life of a MLS rookie
- My embarrassing photo went viral
Miscellaneous text and pictures:
- Historic pictures that have been colorized
- A worryingly long list of footballer puns
- 20 Manliest Mustaches and Beards From Facial Hair History
- 30 of the most powerful images ever
- One hero – a comic book told via parallax scrolling
- 29 innocent things that will make you feel filthy
- A lengthy discussion between brands on social media – Jaffa cakes, Tesco, Yorkshire Tea and Phileas Fogg
Miscellaneous AV and games:
- Entire movies turned into gifs
- A sub-reddit of funny gifs
- A compilation of Zlatan’s best goals
- The 100 greatest movie threats of all-time
- Gapminder – have a play around with the tool Hans Rosling uses for his presentations
- Demonstrations of statistical concepts through the medium of dance
- The Toronto Mayor finds a new way to offend people
Animal corner:
- 29 things that are way more important than work right now
- Meet the first dog to climb Mount Everest (base camp)
- If cats were on LinkedIn
- A Twitter feed dedicated to dressed up animals
- A frisky dolphin and his fish (NB: proceed with caution)
This week on Tumblr:
- Shit to show my girlfriend – animal corner taken to the next level
- The dictionary of obscure sorrows
- Jamie and his soup – an angry soul
Tweets of the week
- Advanced Translation Guide: American/British pic.twitter.com/KntMBJFmRs
- #Thor’s up all night for the Norse Thor’s up all night with his horse Thor’s up all night yeah of course Thor’s up all night to get Loki
- The most famous brand from each state of the United States on a map: pic.twitter.com/T2QuyhY40g
- Catman
- “Enough. I’m sick of you.” The musician Whitey responds to a TV company asking to use his music for free. My hero. http://oi39.tinypic.com/1i0v8y.jpg
- Pilates with jetlag really stretches U! Aaaahhhh
- I am thoroughly enjoying the work of this half-hearted extra in the background of a James Bond film: http://i.imgur.com/nARUTK9.gif
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