We Love the Internet 2013/51: The end-of-2013 edition

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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