We Love the Internet 2022/05: The Bouncing balls, beautiful patterns edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Are Some Zoomers So Wistful For the ‘80s?
• A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff

Reference points

• We’ve spent two years studying readers’ & listeners’ needs of The Atlantic

Longer reads:

• Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Bouncing Balls, Beautiful Patterns

Things to look at/read:

• Italians Avoided Pizza for Centuries — Tourism Changed Everything
• Someone Discovered A Famous Location On Google Earth That Will Hit You Like A Ton Of Bricks When You See It
• These are the biggest hair trends to try in 2022
• Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, Reviewed by Ethan Coen

Animal corner:

• A friend of a friend’s new litter of labs this morning. Oh, my heart.
• Lol just fooling around
• My very special friend Mr Lumpy we’ve know each other for 7 years now
• Can’t handle the tickles
• Smalls, He gets thirsty
• Dance twerk

Tweets of the week:

• omg should i
• “Bathroom is first left up the jairs.” “The wha..”
• Good for her!
• oh no
• They hate West Ham that much they removed the bubbles.
• Tell me your PIN is 9932 without telling me your PIN is 9932
• This is the shoes them Cartoon Network mums be wearing

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Revolt of the Delivery Workers
• How A.I. Conquered Poker

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