We Love the Internet 2017/29: The Alex Jones rants as an indie folk song edition
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
· We Live In The Peak TV World ‘Mad Men’ Created Ten Years Ago
· Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets
· Who Killed The Encyclopedia?
Reference points
· Welcome to our start-up where everyone is twenty three years old
· The distribution of letters in English words
Longer reads:
· How Uber’s Hard-Charging Corporate Culture Left Employees Drained
· MTV Isn’t What It Used To Be
· The Netflix prize: How a $1m content changed binge watching forever
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
· Alex Jones Rants as an Indie Folk Song
· How to Survive in the World of Ice and Fire
· Motorcycle Garage Door Opener
· New York in Cinema — Supercut
· Blasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway
· A Supercut Of People Walking Into Stuff While Looking At Their Phones
· Husband Films His Wife Relaxing In The Ocean, Getting Wrecked By A Rogue Wave
· This is awesome. Diving to the bottom of the world’s deepest swimming pool in a single breath…
Things to look at/read:
· Is R. Kelly Finally Having His Bill Cosby Moment?
· The True Cost Of Our Avocado Obsession
· The Calibri Font Is Threatening to Bring Down Pakistan’s Government
· Moneyball for Dead Celebs: This $5 Billion Business Sells Elvis and Michael Jackson
· Why Are We Suddenly Seeing Period Blood on TV?
Animal corner
· Boyfriend cleans out his girlfriend’s pet rat cage and quickly learns how mischievous they are.
Tweets of the week:
· WHO CARES IF I FAILED SCIENCE I FOUND TWO BARRELS FULL OF FIDGET SPINNERS
· Star Wars, but all of the light saber sounds are Owen Wilson saying “wow”
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads
· The Oral History of EVO: The Story of the World’s Largest Fighting Game Tournament
· The 100 greatest props in movie history, and the stories behind them
· Under siege by liberals: the town where everyone owns a gun
· Jennifer Garner’s Good-Girl Image Has Become Her Business
· The Five-Buck Bump of Cocaine That Destroyed an Olympic Dream
· Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world
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