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:
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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