Humor: The Internet

"The Internet: A Love Story" by TheDogHouseDiaries

Every weekend.  Every. Single. Weekend.

Lecture: How Art Can Transform The Internet

"How Art Can Transform The Internet" by Nerdwriter1

In “How Art Transforms the Internet,” Nerdwriter host Evan Puschak takes a rather academic look at how art impacts the Internet, and perhaps more importantly how the Internet impacts art. The video shares the work of Internet artist Darius Kazemi and how its unique qualities make use of the Internet in ways not possible in other media.

Infographic: Frequently used Reddit Words

"Most frequently used words in the top 1000 /r/Askreddit posts of 2015" by P_S_Laplace

"Used PRAW to grab the top 1000 posts from the past year. Then used the wordcloud library to create the visualization. Removed common words using the 'stopwords' feature, else you would likely see words like "what, when, how" etc.  [...]  Image with no stop words. I can only find "What" in the word cloud."

Humor: TV Tropes Relationship Status

The range of options available under "Relationship Status" when you sign up for an account on TV Tropes is giggle inducing.  Thought I'd share it before some corporate bureaucrat paves over them.

Humor: Wikidiction

"My apartment is not that clean." by Jeremy Kaye of Up and Out

God, do I know this feeling.  I once got so distracted by the fact that no one had bothered adding a release date to the Wikipedia entry on one of my favorite book series, that it was four hours before I realized that the only person who had ever edited that page was me.  I came away with deep knowledge of the history the city of Chicago, the a working understanding of the orders of medieval Catholic priests, and the ability to recognize thirty of the most common brick bonds.

Humor: Net Neutrality

The Oatmeal weighs in on the topic of Net Neutrality in its latest comic, which takes the form of an open letter to Senator Ted Cruz.

Crafts: ARPANET Embroidery

ARPANET Embroidery by Debbie Millman

This map of ARPANET, forerunner of the internet, was embroidered by Debbie Millman, whose most recent book of hand-crafted artwork, Self-Portrait as Your Traitor, was among the best art and design books of 2013.

Link Round-Up: April Fools

BioWare pretended to offer a line of Garrus body pillows

The Bookseller reports that Amazon to open bookstore on International Space Station

CERN has decided to officially switch to Comic Sans.

Deviant Art launches ThoughtART: See the concept art within yourself. ThoughtART will literally translate the images in your brain onto your computer. All the art without any of the work.

Humor: Internet makes me Sick

"The Internet makes me sick." by The Joy of Tech

Fresh Take: Map of the Internet

"Map of the Internet 1.0." is a map of the Internet in the style of antique cartography drawn by artist Jay Simon, based on the xkcd map of online communities.  It's a charming play on the notion of maps as power and propaganda.  Prints are available for purchase from Zazzle.

Posters: Social Networks

"Social Networks" by Russian illustrator Ivan Belikov

Video: Visualize the Internet

"Visualize the whole Internet with an App" by CNNMoney

Peer 1 Hosting has a new app that allows you to see the interconnecting servers that make up the Internet around the world.

Lecture: The Innovation of Loneliness

"The Innovation of Loneliness" by Shimi Cohen

This animated film addresses the issue of how social networks isolate us, increasing our loneliness, rather than making us more social. We are obsessed with the self promoting and we have a lot of friends that only create vague connections, superfluous chats with too many people instead deep connections. This work is based on the book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle.

Posters: Vintage Social Networking

Vintage Social Networking Posters by the Brazilian Ad Agency MOMA Propaganda

The Brazilian Ad Agency Moma Propaganda based out of Sao Paulo created these nostalgic sepia-colored posters for the Facebook, Skye, Twitter, and YouTube social networks to advertize a Maximidia Seminars event entitled “Everything Ages Fast.” Rodolfo Sampaio is ad creative director of the project; Marco Martins is art director; Adriano Matos is copywriter; 6B Studio is responsible for the actual illustration.

Illustration: Google's World

"Google’s World" by Alejo Malia

What if Google Earth were real?

Posters: Game of Thrones Sigils for the Internet

"12 Game of Thrones House Sigils for the Internet" from College Humor

Design: Google's Project Kennedy

Project Kennedy Lifts Off

This week, The Verge ran an excellent article on "How Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution." The article explore's Google's recent company-wide interface redesign code-named "Project Kennedy."

Link Round-Up: November 30, 2012

The Art of Google

News: Staples Announces In-Store 3-D Printing Service

A bedroom fit for a Time Lord: Dr Who fan spends £980 building a TARDIS in his parents' garden

Cristina De Middel's Afronauts: An African space fantasy

Flights of Fantasy in “Exhale,” the Latest Exhibition of Jeremy Geddes

Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim robot blueprints released

Library Paints Hobbit Door Over Entrance

Posters: 21st Century Slogans

Slogans For The Early 21st Century by Douglas Coupland

  

Video: Not Sucking So Bad on Instagram

New York City filmmaker Casey Neistat loves Instagram.  "If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagrams is just the marshmallows.  But a platform is only as good as its users. You see, Instagram ... it's not about the pictures.  It's about sharing."  In order to help people make the best of the service he created a video Guide To Not Sucking So Bad on Instagram.