We Love the Internet 2020/21: The Miracle sudoku edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• As Cable TV Fades, Fearing ‘the End of Comedy Central’
• Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears
• TikTok is the new Young Hollywood
• Zoom fatigue is something the deaf community knows very well
• Who is MrBeast?
• Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
• Typefaces have personality — and can be political
• How to keep TV title sequences relevant in a post-“Skip Intro” world

Reference points:

• 100 best social ads
• 50 insights from Hollywood
• Top 50 sports documentaries of all time
• Wealth shown to scale
• 10 Outrageous Wikipedia Articles That Will Send You Down a Rabbit Hole

Longer reads:

• Digital around the world in April 2020
• Inside the Clubhouse
• How HBO took on the streaming wars
• ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Rise of Skywalker,’ and the Challenges of Modern Fandom
• TikTok Boom! How the Exploding Social Media App Is Going Hollywood
• Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
• OK branding
• Yoga With Adriene: How the YouTube Star Won Lockdown

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The miracle Sudoku
• Make Better Virtual Keynotes
• 10 Weirdest Videos on YouTube
• Storm drain surfing
• The Anderson guide to surviving a global pandemic
• Inspector Gadget for 8 cellos
• Dan Dubuque covering Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” on Weissenborn Slide Guitar
• Our letting agent asked us to make a video of the flat we are basically being forced out of. I wish them the very best of luck.

Things to look at/read:

• Why Nostalgia Is Our New Normal
• Inside LearnedLeague, the Enduring Online World of Trivia Fanatics
• The same people who put Trump in office run the NFL. No wonder it’s not diverse
• The buying and selling of “fuck”

Animal corner:

• ‘It started as a joke’: the animal Zoom calls delighting a locked-down public
• Dog And Mailman Have The Sweetest Relationship
• Cute Baby Bunnies think the Golden Retriever is their Mother
• The Company Meeting
• Decided to play a tune to welcome a new pup and well, we think he liked it.
• When you get your big TV break on the same day your cats finally decide to sort it out once and for all
• I love puddles

Tweets of the week:

• That’s the last time I help my mum do a Tiktok
• Can’t quite believe my eyes
• I don’t know who needs to see this but here is another use for your shoes aside from wearing them
• This is a fucking novel.
• this is excellent
• It nearly killed me, but here it is: The intro to Buffy the Vampire Slayer recreated using only stock footage
• Celebrities: wow for once ppl won’t recognize us in public with these face masks Diane Keaton:
• zoom needs a button that plays wrap it up music like at the oscars

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The stuntman
• I flew to Greece and began solo IVF. Then the world shut down
• How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain
• The Man who thought too fast
• What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.
• How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA
• The Men Behind the Hockey Mask
• The Man Who Runs 365 Marathons a Year

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