Instantly obnoxious but strangely compelling is the way I’d describe the tumblr, ‘Rich kids of Instagram’ A couple of years ago, some cruel genius found posts on the picture sharing site ‘Instagram’, featuring the offspring off the 1% living it up. In fact, these are more like the 0.1% and therefore even more objectionable. Never …
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Make mine a Skinny Latte with added telekinesis.
Over 38 million people have checked out this prank which involves coffee and spooky Carrie-like abilities from the protagonist.
What I Love
I’ve just been introduced to a very simple and engaging way to bring to life the problems of carbon pollution, courtesy of The Climate Reality Project site. Click on the image to check it out.
Make Homosexuals Marry
Why should heterosexuals be the only ones to endure marriage? For too long gays have gone around having single fun while poor married heterosexuals suffer in silence.Well, this video shows what their in for. And I for one say it’s about time they suffered like the rest of us.
Dumb Ways to Die
Very, very occasionally I see an ad that I find genuinely entertaining. This charming and funny little film done for the Melbourne Metro system in Australia is one of them.
Ace in the Hole
It’s about time the outrageous monopoly of cable TV stations was challenged and finally Netflix have come up with a viable alternative Their streaming of the excellent ‘House of Cards’ is a masterstroke. How many would pay 100 bucks for a decent cable package each month, when 11.99 gets them unlimited films and now possibly …
Sad White People
The ‘White People Mourning Romney’ tumblr is a highly topical and probably highly short-lived example of how to best to use the tumblr medium. And it’s catnip for those Obama fans still high after Wednesday’s shellacking of the Republicans. http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com
Assault and pepper
It seems all you have to do to get your own meme is to pepper spray some protestors. Officer John Pike is now everywhere…. See more of this soon to disappear bit of social media at Buzzfeed … http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-pepper-spraying-cop-meme
Community sourcing beats crowd sourcing
One of the panels at SXSW I was most looking forward to was Star Wars Uncut: The Force of Crowdsourcing The emmy-award winning ‘Stars Wars Uncut’ is based on a simple premise – Chop the film up into fifteen second segments, get people to claim one and then redo it in any style they wished. The first …
Tweet a difference
I’m a tweeter. Not obsessive but I get the point of it. Along with Apple and Tumblr, Twitter is one of the few modern, new-fangled things that I have time for. So I was pleased to see when perusing ‘Creativity Online’ that they had come up with a simple way to market themselves, by showcasing …
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