We Love the Internet 2018/36: The Gender nation glossary edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Uber’s Bundles
• As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up
• Meet a new kind of book, designed for the age of Peak TV
• Decision Fatigue: What it is and how it’s killing your focus, motivation, and willpower
• For IGTV, Instagram needs slow to mean steady
• Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms

Reference points:

• Gender nation glossary
• Here’s How Successful People Avoid Information Overwhelm
• Can You Tell If Your Favorite TV Show Is Secretly Sped Up? Take Our Quiz.
• My ultimate Facebook post

Longer reads:

• Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth
• The World’s Most Peculiar Company

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Darth Vader: An Icon In 34 Minutes

Things to look at/read:

• Welcome to hotel millennial
• Who Really Owns the ‘Blaccent’?
• I Say LOL, You Say Ek Number: How People Around The World Laugh Online
• Some Guys Are So Bad at Sexting They Copy and Paste Sexts From the Internet
• Meet ‘Reluctant Hamsters’ and ‘Pork Wallets’ in the hilarious ‘70s Adult Titles’ Twitter feed
• 10 of the best words in the world (that don’t translate into English)
• The decline and fall of Diet Coke and the power generation that loved it

Animal corner:

• The Snoring Fox
• Border Collie enthusiastically watches herself win agility competition on TV
• Great White Shark Launches Itself Out Of The Water, Nearly Takes Off Researcher’s Foot
• Rhino Learns The Hard Way That Bull Elephants Don’t Mess Around
• My dog has a FEW weird habits. Here is one of them.
• A master hunter at work!
• Their dog was bit by a rattlesnake, so they made the best of the situation
• have not stopped thinking about this since I saw it. it’s so good

Tweets of the week:

• they’ve written it as if it’s his occupation
• I’ll just walk on this lily pad like I’ve seen frogs do.
• Grant Holt has given his children  some very strange names
• Such a good tshirt.
• I made a book review bingo card. Critics are hailing it as ‘a remarkable achievement’.
• IS THIS GONE GIRL
• What are you wearing?  Jizz…I’m covered in Jizz.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The art of stealing
• The Viral Video Star Behind the Fitness Fad That May Replace CrossFit
• Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
• The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo

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We Love the Internet 2018/35: The What if English were phonetically consistent? edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The death of Don Draper
• I Watched a Month’s Worth of Ads in a Day. Here’s What I Learned
• Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce
• Moneyballing the Movies: How the Box Office Became a Sport
• Mom, Dad: I’m a new media content creator
• Targeted messaging is only one piece of the advertising puzzle

Reference points:

• The 50 greatest special effects movies of all time
• The 20 Best Comedy Central Roast Sets Ever
• These Taxpayer-Funded Memes Are The Most Wholesome Thing On The Internet

Longer reads:

• Invisible asymptotes
• An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
• Why competitive gaming is starting to look a lot like professional sports
• The Political Education of Silicon Valley

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
• playing SOAD Chop Suey on Baroque Grand by Bösendorfer
• Spice Girls – Wannabe (Vocals Slowly Fall Out of Key & Off Tempo)
• Teen, Surrounded By His Dancing Parents On The Jumbotron, Has The Worst 30 Seconds Of His Life
• The Most Satisfying Videos Ever (Don’t Watch If You Have Trypophobia)
• World’s Youngest to Backflip a Bike- Brody Ervin (Age 6)
• 2013 Firestone Indy Lights Close Finish! Freedom 100 4 Wide Finish

Things to look at/read:

• Inside the Unabomber’s angsty, odd and furious online revival
• Five Questions About… Pete Doherty Aggressively Eating a Breakfast
• Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns

Animal corner:

• My dog just posts up like he’s in the club judging ppl
• EXCUSE ME, MA’AM. DO YOU KNOW WHAT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION MEANS?

Tweets of the week:

• When the design team loses a debate with the legal team.
• Get Well Soon Mark Zuckerberg
• The stats don’t lie
• I AM TOOTH
• why is this so funny to me
• i’m losing my fucking mind
• This is when I realised I should mind my own business
• We found love in a hopeless place

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime Blogger
• White threat in a browning America
• When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

 

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We Love the Internet 2018/34: The Instagram generation edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Instagram Generation
• Why YouTubers are feeling the burn
• Porn Stars Are Getting Personal To Combat Piracy

Reference points:

• Freemium Conversion Rate: Why Spotify Destroys Dropbox by 667%
• Newsletters Are Immortal

Longer reads:

• How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million
• Zuckerberg: The Recode interview

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Cyclist Ignores Warning Gates On Raised Drawbridge, Rides Directly Into Gap
• ‘Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughts
• 2018World Final 1A 01 Evan Nagao

Things to look at/read:

• “Cocaine, Speed, and Gallons of Jack Daniel’s”: The Last Rock ’n’ Roll Superstars Were … Korn?
• ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin
• How Dave Benson Phillips became a wrestling superstar

Animal corner:

• Ant stealing diamond
• Sheep Loves to Bounce on Trampoline
• Lasquite’s Saint Bernards
• Hummingbird Pool Party Number Five!
• Rude awakening
• Opossums Enjoying Their Banana
• Trying to find my dog a girlfriend didn’t go as well as I thought
• You should given me those treats when I barked, Kevin. You made me do this.

Tweets of the week:

• I can’t even imagine how high these guys were when they created this masterpiece
• How good is Twitter
• You’re tearing me apart Lisa !
• Hold my beer while I throw this cigarette down this hole.
• superheroes being 178% done with everyone and everything with wii music playing in the background
• Coming across this clip has been the highlight of my week.
• My money is on the live wolves.
• Judas taking a sip of wine before betraying jesus:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How a Transplanted Face Transformed a Young Woman’s Life
• While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey

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We Love the Internet 2018/33: The Complicating the narratives edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
• Women’s Media Is a Scam
• The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no-one

Reference points:

• The Top 10 TV Episodes of the 21st Century
• The 100 best one star reviews of The Catcher In The Rye

Longer reads:

• Complicating the Narratives
• Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This is a Chicken Wing
• Rubber Chicken Vacuum Cleaner Challenge
• These human face pies are the stuff of nightmares
• Guy Deploys Airbag Underneath Reclining Chair

Things to look at/read:

• A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery
• Bill Maher Is Stand-up Comedy’s Past. Hannah Gadsby Represents Its Future.
• When Men Decide It’s Time to Say Sorry

Animal corner:

• When you are 9 levels of skill higher than your opponent
• Bored? Let’s play a game! Retweet once you see the cat.

Tweets of the week:

• I just found out I have a FUNKY WHITE SISTER
• That judge isn’t fucking about
• What’s your favourite painting of Nicolas Cage trying to breastfeed a smaller Nicolas Cage? Here’s mine:
• Howay lads time and place
• Dear Bron, I wrote you but you still ain’t call me…
• Joey Barton looking like he’s about to tell us why the iPhone 11 costs two grand.
• Can’t… stop… watching
• Here’s something I never thought I’d see. @DaveBensonPhill giving a bronco buster

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis
• How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%
• How e-commerce is transforming rural China
• Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide
• The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One
• Can Andy Byford save the subways?
• My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time

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We Love the Internet 2018/32: The We are all public figures now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
• Go90 or bust: How AwesomenessTV’s fate was tied to Verizon
• Facebook Lenses
• Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies
• Netflix Isn’t Being Reckless, It’s Just Playing a Game No One Else Dares

Reference points:

• The 100 best TV episodes of the century
• The Best TV Episode of the Century Is …
• The toxic power of music stans
• Stop letting the data decide

Longer reads:

• We are all public figures now
• Previously On: How Recaps Changed the Way We Watch Television
• The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch
• “Google was not a normal place”
• Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How Does Netflix Make Money?
• Trippy RollerCoaster Ride
• how is prangent formed
• How to Make an A24 Movie
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – HALO Jump Stunt Behind The Scenes
• Bohemian Rhapsody, but it spells out Bohemian Rhapsody.
• The Truth About Tanacon

Things to look at/read:

• Nine Things I Learned When I Became a Honeymoon Planner for Billionaires
• I Explored The World Of Japanese Dating Apps And It’s More Different Than I Imagined

Animal corner:

• Mad Malamute After Bath Won’t Look At Me!
• Cats In Japanese Cat Cafe Somehow Sense An Earthquake Before It Even Hits
• They finally caught me in the act!
• Bless this doggo who stole a GoPro
• This is how one dog moves 2000 sheep
• Not sure of source but oh my god?????
• When you are worried about robots taking your job
• This picture will never stop making me laugh

Tweets of the week:

• This is glorious. Absolute perfection
• Adidas Boss: “You completed that Leicester City project I gave you? Season starts in 8 days?” Adidas Intern: “What Project?”
• Is Jamie Oliver going to…. cook his children
• G(old)
• I adjusted the audio as it really should have been. You’re welcome.
• I can’t decide if this is Inverness being super friendly by having signs specifically dedicated to giving Little Mix directions, or being horrible by trying to start rumours about them.
• *notices a slight change in the way something tastes* me:
• Clippy! Is that you, old friend?

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
• Inhuman resources
• Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood: Who’s the “Crazy Evil Genius” Behind a Global Racket?
• Jameela Jamil: ​’I won’t become a double agent for the patriarchy’
• It’s Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly

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