February 2012
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy on advertising
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This Shit Matters: Google’s New Privacy Policy,... →
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Google’s new privacy policy starts tomorrow. Miles Lothe translated the whole thing into bro-speak, so it’s just entertaining enough to actually read what Google’s about to do with all your information.
He also translated the new Google terms of service.
Gizmodo called Miles’s translations “actually quite the public service”.
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Pledge some $ and be a part of Ze Frank's new show →
“You never would have thought that you were into bestiality, or pedophilia, or...”
– Ask an Evil Genie: Permanent Vacation, Dog Sex and Boob Clocks by Meredith Haggerty for Slacktory
“Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some friends who are...”
– Mitt Romney, at the Daytona 500, asked whether he follows NASCAR. (via officialssay)
Is it widely understood that the Neil deGrasse...
It’s from his awed description of Isaac Newton’s early accomplishments.
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Patrick Cassels 100% For Actual!: Fake Best... →
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1928 - The Unshakeable Johnny Trenchfoot 1929 - Jazz: An American Plague 1930 - Westward, Good Sirs, Westward 1931 - The Razzamataz Follies 1932 - Hoover Flag 1933 - Doo-Dee-Dah: A Spiritual 1934 - The Distinguished Hobo 1935 - Captian Bluefoot’s Brigade 1936 - Frank Capra’s “Dollar and…
I cannot figure out the words for the type of funny that Pat Cassels is. But this list...
“A bunch of viewers complaining that they have no control over themselves when...”
– Half of Modern Replica’s comment on the YouTube reply-girls controversy. (The other half is a good suggestion that YouTube start using qualitative reaction buttons like BuzzFeed’s.)
This is a great reply to those viewers, but not to, say, me. I don’t click thumbnails for tit...
“The single least-attractive attribute of many of the people who download content...”
– Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko
Unghhhhhh yes guys stop making it so hard to be on your side
fatwasandfanboys asked: true story: 18-year-old me got into a political debate with ray william johnson back when he had less than 100 followers. he is such a douchey, privilicious, unfunny asshat.
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The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order →
I had no clue how much I’d nod and go “oh yeah no that’s a great point!”
(via Merlin Mann)
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Rachel with oatmeal →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
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Beth →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
The documentary about the reply girls has a very high dislike-to-like ratio, which shows one problem for YouTube: What metric could they use to automatically tell good videos from spam? It’s not dislikes, because plenty of legitimate but controversial content gets highly disliked.
“Yesterday, Yogscast notched it up, appealing to their million strong user base...”
– Daily Dot | YouTube or boob tube? Reply girls scandal rocks video world
And yet stuff like that is damn good evidence that shitty reply videos, no matter what kind, are definitely and cynically destroying the tiny but growing genre of serial content on the web, and that genre really needs...
Also, Ray William Johnson is worse than reply girls. He is hurting the internet.
“Of course, boobs have long drawn viewers on YouTube. And more than one prominent...”
– Daily Dot | YouTube or boob tube? Reply girls scandal rocks video world
So see, there’s this (possibly specious) argument to be made that the men who dominate the top YouTube tier are just mad that women have stolen the male gaze back. They’re only mad at this practice when someone...
“For weeks, cries of censorship and cyberbullying have been echoing across the...”
– Daily Dot | YouTube or boob tube? Reply girls scandal rocks video world
Now that’s fascinating. When (if ever) does sex appeal count as cheating?
Years ago on YouTube, some creators would run a single frame of boobs in the exact center of a video, so it would show as the thumbnail. From the...
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Hotel room at SxSW
SxSWers! I’ve got a second bed in my hotel room at the Hilton, $900 total for every night of Interactive, March 8-13. If you’re interested, email me at nick@toomuchnick.com.
“How do we get YouTube to make this illegal?”
– Tragic Trend: Teens Ask YouTube Commenters If They’re Ugly
Hahahahaha wait what, Katie?
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heylookit:
HOLY SHIT IT’S AN AUDIO POST
