When mountaineer George Mallory was asked by the New York Times why he would endeavour in the life-threatening feat of attempting to climb Mt. Everest, his response was direct and simple: “Because it’s there.” He did it because he could. Because the thing before him begged to be experienced. Because it is within the fabric of...
Are you feeling broke? Financially or otherwise? Well good news, we’ve got some memes here that are 100% cash. Money. Now, do I mean that literally? No. Not yet, anyway. Until we hit some sort of full-blown apocalypse in which traditional monetary systems are eliminated and memes are treated as fungible means of purchase, these aren’t...
There are all kinds of apps and even built in OS features on phones now that will break down exactly how much you’ve been looking at the thing and in what capacities and for what purposes. Tracking screen time seems to be a very weird thing our generation is into. We gather this information, we treat it as though it means something, we...
Tweets are tiny little time capsules. And there are, I don’t know, trillions of them? Who will be the one to open these in future? Will anyone? Or will these capsules, once aged sufficiently prove entirely too hard to swallow? We can’t know. There’s just no way to know. But for now, we can remember a few of them by experiencing...
Welcome to the first annual Twitter Awards, hosted and controlled by me. Only 13 of these awards are handed out yearly, for reasons known only to be, in categories which are likely to change from year to year. So, now that we all understand it, put on your best “good sport loser” face and prepare for the glitz and glamour of award...
Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about my favorite cause? I promise it won’t take long, and I’m not going to ask you for money, and I’m certainly not going to put you in a position where you donate $20 and then I send you mail for the rest of your life, easily out-costing me the money you spent and driving you crazy...
The only thing worse than going into a job you don’t love every day is epically failing at that job. But that’s not gonna stop these people from telling the whole world about it after a prompt from account @b3ta asking for “work felated f*ck-ups.” Let’s see what the damage is, Twitter. 15. The grand rejection Sounds...
I’ve been working on trying to crack the code of how to make popular things on the internet. Honestly, I think I’m really close to having everything I need. The only things left to acquire are talent, an idea, a unique perspective, engaging delivery, and the lucky timing to hit maximal cultural impact. But what I DO have already is the...
I don’t remember the entire Lord’s Prayer from my Sunday School days, but I’m pretty sure there was a part in there about asking the Lord for our daily tweets. Or was it bread? Did Jesus say “Let’s get this bread?” Is that communion? Sorry, not to blaspheme, it’s just that getting a daily allotment of...
There’s nothing better than a good fail compilation. It’s one of the only time-tested internet things that has really spanned the entirety of the existence of the information superhighway. No matter how good the broadband gets, no matter how far we advance or how steeply we as a culture decline, no matter how rich or poor you are,...