We Love the Internet 2021/18: The French is easy edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Disney’s Crossover Endgame
• What a Zombie Basketball Player From the 2026 Metaverse Has to Do With NIL and NFTs

Reference points:

• Inside a viral website
• Ideas grab

Longer reads:

• How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• French is easy
• Each Radiohead album described with Peep Show
• Largest Fandoms on AO3 Over Time
• This 50-Second Video Perfectly Encapsulates How Crazy The Housing Market Is Right Now

Things to look at/read:

• “It’s a fine line between laughter and tears”: Behind the scenes of The Office’s messiest cold open
• The Interior Lives of Hoarders
• She visited every country on Earth. Here’s what she learned.
• Unwanted Corkpull

Animal corner:

• Dog Saves Another Dog From Drowning
• The idea in my head vs the first draft
• Main Title — Banjo-Kazooie
• He’s heavier than he looks

Tweets of the week:

• Is there a more humbling image imaginable.
• ive been thinking about this post for hours
• “What’s England like?”
• “Seeing Bill and Melinda Gates not Excel at their relationship has me like “Word?”
• Eight times. That’s how many times I just watched this in a row.
• The authentic Scottish beer garden experience…
• growing up i had a friend who was convinced the lyrics were “don’t go, jason waterfalls” and i think about it constantly. why would it be that. who is jason
• Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Call Is Coming From Inside the House — Craft Beer’s Self-Inflicted Existential Crisis
• They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines — and Started a Cold War
• Scar Stories: The Toll of Colon Cancer
• The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
• John Swartzwelder, sage of “The Simpsons”

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