Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- I’ve Discovered the Internet’s Most Internet Sentence, and Your an Idiot if You Disagree
- Chips With More Transistors Prolong Human Life – correlation doesn’t equal causation
- Everything is connected – the idea works better than the execution, at least at the moment
- For 7 years, L.A. Times’ Homicide Report has wrested stories from grim data
Reference points
- Graph TV – graph ratings of TV programmes
- Eight layers – a strategic checklist for the modern content business
- 6 Dogs Who Know How To Have Fun – from the Onion
- Pixel perfect precision – a design/UX resource
Longer reads:
- It’s complicated – danah boyd’s book on social networks and teens is available for free download from her site
- Sex! Drugs! Apps! SxSWi at 20
- Is the Internet good or bad? Yes.
- Inside the High-Stakes Battle to Control How You Talk to Friends
- The Playboy Interview: A Candid Conversation with Gawker’s Nick Denton
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to watch/listen to/play with:
- Postmodern Jukebox’s one take 2013 mash-up
- “Eye of the tiger” on dot matrix printer
- Speed skating, Mario Kart style
- News-reader edited to Rapper’s Delight
- Mario Seinfeld
Things to look at/read:
- 23 Instant Karma Gifs
- Little Boots on her experience of going to The Brits
- 12 Helpful Charts Every Londoner Should Live Their Life By – number 1 is incorrect
- The 26 Most East London Things That Have Ever Happened – more like a certain district within East London
- Why aren’t we all using Japanese toilets?
Animal corner:
- His Scream is Worse than His Bite
- Cat doesn’t want to play with husky
- Cats and Dogs Hate Kisses
- Skimbles cat fail
This week on Tumblr:
- Cook suck
- Experimental music on children’s TV
- Today is the day Marty McFly went into the future – to combat all the incorrect social media posts
Tweets of the week:
- When Dan Patrick has a twitter typo, he has one heck of a twitter typo. pic.twitter.com/1gRwqKqNGP
- Chinese bootleg of OLDBOY remake features the best review quote. pic.twitter.com/tdV4vTgsMl
- Whenever someone yells stop, I don’t know if it’s in the name of love, it’s hammer time, or if I should collaborate and listen.
- Still the best typo in a takeaway menu ever. pic.twitter.com/3j1eJWDorN
- Hard to see this headline being beaten in 2014: pic.twitter.com/vhryq6MIVv (via @neil_gillon)
Part 3: For the weekend
Reference points
- Hack the menu – no idea how many of these secret menu items are available in the UK
Long-form articles:
- The broken-down grace of Bill Murray – reviews of all of his films
- The footballer trapped in ‘The House of the Beautiful Sleeping Athlete’
- Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
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