We Love the Internet 2014/04: The Fanboy edition

Reposted, as the links in the original were broken

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• For TV Fans, Cramming In Sunday’s Best – Sunday is where all the best TV shows are scheduled in the US
• The sad world of adults pretending to be kids for retweets
• The evolution of memes on Facebook
• Long-form articles can be read on phones

Longer reads:

• Inside the mind of a fanboy – one of the Verge’s long form, uniquely designed articles. This is on mobiles and the design alters depending on what device you’re reading it on (put ?ios or ?android at the end of the URL)
• How a math genius hacked OK Cupid to find true love
• Why audio never goes viral
• The online avengers – anti-bullying activists

Part 2: For the lunch-break

This week on Tumblr:

• Famous movie quotes as charts – which basically shows a well-chosen phrase is better than a picture
• Lego albums
• No wrong way to play – unusual ways to play videogames
• Craigslist mirrors

Things to watch/listen to:

• Fight club minus Tyler Durden
• Wolf of Wall Street’s special effects revealed
• Bad British NFL commentary
• 100 songs in a day – how to make money through music

Things to look at:

• Bicycle helmet folds flat and fits into laptop case
• How does London life compare to New York?
• Selling Shame: 40 Outrageous Vintage Ads Any Woman Would Find Offensive – not intended to provoke people(!)
• “Dumbest Thing Ever”: Scribbling in the Margins of Dan Brown’s Inferno – will contain spoilers

 

Animal corner:

• 9 GIFs of dogs having the time of their lives at kids’ playgrounds
• How dogs and cats teach their offspring to use the stairs
• Stop Everything You Are Doing And Watch This Dog Dance

Tweets of the week:

• EXCLUSIVE: Police release image of builders who accidentally poured concrete in Victoria Line control room pic.twitter.com/v5G1jgXCQk
• Sure, let’s act like Justin Bieber is the biggest story in the world right now. pic.twitter.com/LWgZBMr0UN
• Awesome – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song rapped through retweets, as conducted by @hrtbps: pic.twitter.com/QWP5yrX9j5
• Just labelling up my stuff – can’t be too careful these days. pic.twitter.com/8oKEkbMpOe
• Googled ‘best gaming mouse’ was not disappointed pic.twitter.com/aZLKRnAY6x
• Titanic. Quite selfish actually pic.twitter.com/wJ6qfhraFN

Part 3: For the weekend

Long-form articles:

• So money – an oral history of Swingers
• A True Trans Soul Rebel – profile of Against Me! Singer Laura Jane Grace
• How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? – more a profile of a person than a food trends piece
• The trouble with contemporary music criticism

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