We Love the Internet 2013/50: The Slonk Donkerson edition

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:

• Pornhub comments on stock photos
• Beyonce art history
• The Kanye West Wing
• Movies in Color
• 100% men

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:

• Reuters best photos of the year 2013
• None of these images are photo-shopped

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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