We Love the Internet 2018/12: The What it’s like to die online edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What It’s Like to Die Online
• How a Copywriter’s Amazing Tribute to Sprite Got Him Hired at W+K
• Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive
• BuzzFeed is trying to drive appointment viewing on streaming sites
• Silicon Valley Is Having An Existential Crisis Over “Time Well Spent.” But So Are We.
• Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists

Reference points:

• 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech

Longer reads:

• Design in Tech report 2018
• Reddit and the struggle to detoxify the internet
• The inside story behind Pebble’s demise

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I am just browsing
• Tommy Wiseau’s Joker Audition Tape
• 50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome
• Swanage ice
• Nyjah | ‘Til Death
• My baby boy dancing to MGMT
• Nephew doesn’t know what hit him
• Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Things to look at/read:

• Expert Introductions: The Quietus’ Top 40 Genre Compilation Albums
• The literal translation of country names
• Does anyone have the right to sex?
• A 20-Year-Old Gouged Out Her Own Eyes While In A Drug-Induced Psychosis
• The World Is Better Than Ever. Why Are We Miserable?
• Violin plots
• ‘Some families are too shady to work with’: meet the tutors of the ultra-rich

Animal corner:

• Cat Wants Fish Under Ice
• My sister snapped me this, but I feel like it deserves to be seen by so many more
• This pilot let a baby chimp sit on his lap the whole flight just so he’d feel extra safe
• Surprising move from the referee
• In case you missed my dog learning how to eat a string bean
• His own snoring woke him up and I cannot stop laughing

Tweets of the week:

• the best interaction that i have ever had on this web site
• The new Doctor Who intro is a bit shit
• Nobody talks about Jesus’ miracle of having 12 close friends in his 30s
• The moment my soul left my body..
• I’m afraid this may hurt your head a little.
• Lady in a sandwich shop showed me this video of her son today
• im telling yall mexican kids are a different type of breed
• Instagram account vs Twitter account

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How A Player In The Trump-Russia Scandal Led A Double Life As An American Spy
• Shia Labeouf is ready to talk about it
• Terry Crews Is Not Going Down Without A Fight
• The Billionaire Philanthropist
• What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
• Dragonman, the Man Who Sells “People-Hunting Guns”
• The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t

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