What the hell, they have internet on planes these days? You must be, like, the first person ever to be able to post to Facebook from thousands of feet in the air. Quick! Tell your friends! Right now! Waste no time! Everyone will be fascinated.
There are two lessons here: One, Stuart Smalley was right (just look at him now, a US Senator). Two, chowing down on a fistful of peyote caps just before trying to talk to your crush for the first time is probably a bad idea.
Unless you’ve been locked in a basement rooting
For all its promise of being the Next Big Thing in tech, when it comes to Google Glass, haters gotta hate. Still, if you’re gonna object to it, you may as well do it properly.
Kickstarter can be a fantastic launching pad for people with real knowhow and real talent to make real ideas, well, real. There are a lot of wonderful success stories! At its very peak, Kickstarter gives everyone a shot at success. But there are also a lot of epic failures too. The truth is, like much of the Internet (or the world), a lot of stuff on Kickstarter is crap. And if it’s not crap, it’s not special. And if it’s not special, it’s not worth it. And if it’s not worth it, Kickstarter becomes a cesspool of overeager online panhandlers shaking you down for money
Journey through the depths of the cosmos in search of the mystical Laser Cat homeworld in this techno-fueled flight of fancy from Inese Verina with music by KODEK.
Even though YouTube is the greatest tool ever created to waste time, it’s also the biggest open house for gigabytes of completely useless moving crap. And even though YouTube can make any video viral, it’s also responsible for the onslaught of YouTube celebrities. YouTube giveth and taketh away. This clever animation video by Jello Apocalypse exposes the dumbness that surrounds all the awesomeness of YouTube. You know the YouTube tricks: thumbnails, comments, ads, the front page and so on. [JelloApocalypse]
Next time you leave an online community, spare a thought for your account, which will sit there accumulating messages, news and all other kinds of crap which you’ll never, ever see again.