We Love the Internet 2013/46: The Dinovember edition

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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