Not as overwhelmingly long this week, since Christmas drinks won’t attend themselves…
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they’re robots – the future of telephone research?
- Why are Upworthy headlines suddenly everywhere? And Why Upworthy is basically pure evil
- Can you fact-check a twerking video?
Reference points:
- The most overused buzzwords on LinkedIn in 2013
- Factslides – not always the most interesting of facts, but a well-made site
- Tumblr’s 2013 year in review
Longer reads:
- Imgur: The Biggest Little Site in the World – the image hosting site for Reddit is now more popular than Reddit itself
- Inside the mind of Jonah Peretti – the found of Buzzfeed
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Animal corner:
- A compilation of puppies learning how to howl
- You shall not pass, dog
- How to deactivate a cat
- The 47 Absolute Greatest Dog GIFs Of 2013
- Peter the Elephant plays a green piano
This week on Tumblr:
Things to look at:
- Georgia O’Queef, meet Slutvomit: The year in band names 2013
- 13 Holiday Gifts for People Who Spend Way Too Much Time on the Internet – And yes, I would be happy with most of this
- 33 Of The Greatest Things That Happened On Tumblr In 2013
- Great comebacks to sexist comments
- We who spoke LOLcat now speak Doge – the internet meme war
- The lookbook cookbook – hipster food
- Create your own Miley Cyrus Christmas decorations
Serious things to look at:
Tweets of the week
- The best case ever for the Oxford comma: pic.twitter.com/gDt1gUOfJk
- .@LeGrove Today’s special is the ‘Moyes Kebab’: same kebab, but delivery is poor, attention to detail minimum, and made in a pressure cooker
- The World’s Most Viewed Photo – ‘Bliss’ pic.twitter.com/AzKCiTvLz9
- Kirstie Allsopp is what your mum would bring back from the shops if you asked her to buy Nigella
- Anyone not feeling Christmassy enough needs to get themselves down to the Alton Travelodge #festive pic.twitter.com/Ca7uNl9w0w
- Sit down, grab a coffee, you’re about to edit your eBay email preferences: pic.twitter.com/4JxpBGKHy8
- Your Wrong – The magazine for pedants. pic.twitter.com/JWmc1Ajk2d
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