We Love the Internet 2019/40: The Beachheads and obstacles edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

· Beachheads and Obstacles

· How Data Is Making Hits and Changing the Music Industry

· A Decade of Music Is Lost on Your iPod. These Are The Deleted Years. Now Let Us Praise Them.

· Once billed as the future of GroupM, mPlatform fades into the background

· What even is Spotify?

· Framestore is invited to visit Downton Abbey

· The (new) golden age of gifs

Reference points:

· The 25 Most Important Characters of the Past 25 Years

Longer reads:

· What is Amazon?

· How do comedians reveal “the funny”? (pdf)

· The rise and fall of Flash, the annoying plugin that shaped the modern web

· How to major in unicorn

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

· World Record Paper Airplane Distance

· Opening a Bottle of Liquid Nitrogen Under Water

· Low Level Display

· Putting a Flag in a Vacuum Chamber to See if Flags Can Wave on the Moon

· Book fountain page by page

· Animal sounds on violin imitation on guitar

Things to look at/read:

· Why Fashion Influencers Are “Pivoting” To Anxiety

· The Rise of ‘Grandmillennial’ Style

· What happened to the guys who invested their life savings in cryptocurrency?

· The Perfection of the Paper Clip

Animal corner:

· Dog saves puppy

· Me realizing that it really do be like that sometimes

· If Liam Gallagher was reincarnated as a bear.

· Guys, i think I found my favourite tiktok

· enjoy this video of my cat’s 6th attempt to jump on the counter.

· My boyfriend told me that our puppy Winston snoozed his alarm the past two days and he was almost late to work. Obviously I didn’t believe him… so he showed me

· Moist owlette

· Skeleton hands massaging cat

Tweets of the week:

· What 16 years of work on physics engines gets you.

· Me interpretive dancing to movie company intros

· Ever noticed Boaty McBoatface (aka the Sir David Attenborough) looks exactly like Hulk Hogan?

· So my boyfriend took me to watch the spurs game at the stadium today…so I wrote a list of the stuff he kept saying to keep myself entertained lol

· billy’s work is almost done

· here’s an Arrested Development/Succession intro i made that absolutely no one asked for

· A video you never thought you needed til now. Aristocats v Lizzo.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

· The mysterious evacuation of sunspot observatory

· King of pop

· A town for people with chronic fatigue syndrome

· Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pedestrians?

· The Two Sides of Diego Maradona

· Made In America: For $9.50 An Hour, They Brew Tear Gas For Hong Kong

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