The last We Love the Internet of the year (i.e. there won’t be one next week). Enjoy the festive period, one and all.
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- French café charges extra for rudeness
- No Resume, No Cover Letter — Instagram Scored the Job – by the man who looks the most likely person in the world to get a job via Instagram
- The blog is dead, long live the blog
Reference points:
- The 10 dumbest crowd-funded projects of 2013
- How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the Web
- London on trend – geo-tagged Instagram photos
Longer reads:
- 10 trends for 2014 – slideshare presentation
- Hack list – Malcolm Gladwell – a take-down of Malcom Gladwell, in the style of Malcolm Gladwell
- Was the Revenge Of The Nerds series a prophetic vision of our present?
- Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play
Part 2: For the lunch-break
More 2013 reviews
- YouTube rewind: What does 2013 say? – expertly edited, big songs, memes and YouTube stars of the year
- Google Zeitgeist 2013
- The 50 best articles of 2013
- This was 2013 on social media
- Instagram’s top moments of 2013
- 2013 most contagious report (link is a pdf)
Things to play with
- Please help me Beyoncé
- Create your own composition from individual YouTube videos – this is a brilliant idea
- Loudgifs – check out the most popular, or create your own
Things to look at:
- Pentametron – an automated (I think) Twitter feed made up of Iambic Pentameter couplets
- The 23 most breath-taking science photos of 2013
- Jony Ive’s secret coffee ritual – perfectionist in all walks of life, it seems
- All rappers love Connect 4
- 28 Unforgettable Things Local Newspapers Told Us In 2013
- Lee Crooks try – slightly biased commentary
- The 89 funniest sports gifs of 2013
Animal corner:
- How to gift-wrap your cat for Christmas
- Dogs recognise pictures of their owners – but prefer looking at other dogs
- The 40 Most Awkward Cats Of 2013
- 22 Boops That Changed The World In 2013
- Dogs playing in snow compilation
- Tickling rats for science
This week on Tumblr:
- Menswear dog
- Tab closed; didn’t read
- Blorpy – internet comments aren’t all stupid
- Tom Hanks is a bunch of animals
- Ineffective chinstraps
Tweets of the week
- You’ve seen nothing until you’ve seen a picture of a pigeon having a job interview to become a pigeon: pic.twitter.com/gfkUGVcb3p
- Now this is a stat pic.twitter.com/C9nqvMvazC
- RT @rfinney: Neil Armstrong had to fill out an immigration form when he returned to the US from the moon: pic.twitter.com/PcNyYCaHwe
- I have just endorsed Andy Murray on LinkedIn for tennis.
- Here’s the @ploughpub’s recently fired head chef: @chefjimknight < Someone do give him a job! Here’s the context: pic.twitter.com/wBBfaVzXfl
- Google motto 2004: Don’t be evil Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define Google motto 2013: We make military robots
- #CHEEKY A Liverpool fan asked for Luis Suarez’s autograph, only to reveal a hidden contract after! pic.twitter.com/m9xwVjaEOs
Part 3: For the weekend
Long-form articles
- The fall of the House of Tsarnaev – impressive article on the Boston Bombers
- The worst thing ever written – a history of troll fiction
- The Bill Watterson Interview
- The fall of the House of Juicy
- Is Western culture now too vulgar?
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