We Love the Internet 2021/11: The American idle edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Is Apple TV+ for Real Yet?
• 11 Years of Untappd: How One App Gamified the Relentless Pursuit of Novelty

Reference points:

• Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes
• Frequency of letters in English words and where they occur in the word

Longer reads:

• American Idle
• What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
• Stream Warriors
• How Google’s grand plans to make its own games fell apart

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Automatic pool stick vs. strangers
• Draw an iceberg and see how it will float.
• Food Theory: Taco Bell Is Killing Amazon!

Things to look at/read:

• Eddie Izzard: ‘I’m just trying to create a space for myself’
• ‘I call it a mutual break-up’: When stars ‘disappear’ on their fandoms
• Middle-aged superheroes
• Why bands are disappearing: ‘Young people aren’t excited by them’

Animal corner:

• Sweet owl sneezes
• Excitable Greyhound Jumps For Joy When Owner Gets Dressed
• American Psycho with Cats
• A sloth playing with water..

Tweets of the week:

• The zagreb manager used his 1 phone call to say “lads, it’s Tottenham”
• unfortunately i must announce that it looks like all 2021 hipsters / indie / DIY young people dress like at least one member of the family from Matilda
• the set up vs. the shot
• Aerial view of Barcelona will never cease to amaze me.
• “I’m actually a plain clothes police officer here to protect you, haha yeah I guess I am one of the good guys”
• If the Catholic Church won’t marry same sex couples then explain this
• Fukuyama declaring the end of chairs. The man’s learned nothing.
• Ok fine, give the people what they want, bread and circuses, here you go happy Ides of March

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
• Tom Hanks, The NBA, And COVID’s Day Of Reckoning In The US: An Oral History
• The Fall of Armie Hammer: A Family Saga of Sex, Money, Drugs, and Betrayal
• Vanishing Act
• Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite

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