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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