We Love the Internet 2023/43: The Internet artifacts edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Frasier Needs Longer Seasons (and a Network Home)
• Monkey Laundering
• Why Netflix Wants to Make It 2013 Again
• Bizarre Robert Downey Jr. Deal Offer, Beijing Plot to Buy Taiwan’s Only Broadcast Network: A Hollywood vs. China Case Heads to Court
• My six-month dive into podcasting’s very chaotic year
• Meet Airbnb’s official party pooper, who reduced partying by 55% in two years

Reference points:

• Internet artifacts
• Martin Scorsese’s 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked

Longer reads:

• The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Pepper X: Sean Evans, Chili Klaus & Smokin’ Ed Currie Eat the New World’s Hottest Pepper

Things to look at/read:

• All I want from the internet is Homer Simpson singing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
• The restaurant nearest Google

Animal corner:

• I’m watching you
• When your kitten grew up with dogs and she barks
• Get out of my ham
• Impossible to be mad or stop him…..
• Pulling back the covers and seeing Pipsqueak’s sweet face was always like opening presents on Christmas morning

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Cracked tiles, wonky gutters, leaning walls — why are Britain’s new houses so rubbish?
• Inside Hatton Garden’s turbo-charged watch market
• The race to catch the last Nazis

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