We Love the Internet 2017/29: The Alex Jones rants as an indie folk song edition

Simon Kendrick
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· We Live In The Peak TV World ‘Mad Men’ Created Ten Years Ago

· Content isn’t king

· 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:

· Back in action

· 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

· “Taylor Swift Smuggled out of Her Apartment in a Massive Suitcase” Is the Story We Want, Need, and Deserve

· Moneyball for Dead Celebs: This $5 Billion Business Sells Elvis and Michael Jackson

· Why Are We Suddenly Seeing Period Blood on TV?

· Nihilist start up haikus

Animal corner

· Boyfriend cleans out his girlfriend’s pet rat cage and quickly learns how mischievous they are.

· WATCH: A golden retriever noticed that a fawn was drowning. He jumped in to save it. What a good boy.

· The dog’s face says it all

Tweets of the week:

· This is the memorial for Steve the drowned security robot outside our office on his charging pad. The future is weird.

· Fans 1 Drone 0

· WHO CARES IF I FAILED SCIENCE I FOUND TWO BARRELS FULL OF FIDGET SPINNERS

· Lucky old June.

· WE NOW GO LIVE TO BREXIT

· The Smiths

· Star Wars, but all of the light saber sounds are Owen Wilson saying “wow”

· Trump’s lawyer and doctor are like a before and after of the Monopoly man getting addicted to peyote.

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

· This Town Melts Down

· An 18-Year-Old Girl Died From a Synthetic Opioid She Bought Online. Here’s How Portland Police Cracked the Case.

· Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world

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Simon Kendrick
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