Here are ten links.
2 min readFeb 23, 2021
- Draw an iceberg and see how it will float. Zen.
- The Art Newspaper on NFTs, which sort of explains the battle between Pest Supply and Pest Control.
- There’s a Muppet Wiki, and it has lots of info about those dark af Wilkins ads, including this quote from a US Senator in 1959: “About the only clever advertising on the air today is ‘Wilkins and Wontkins.’”
- The WandaVision commercials are related to the Infinity Stones? OK.
- Speaking of ads: Matt Webb on what to do with spare TV ad inventory. “So perhaps I could buy a TV ad targeted just at me, and generate the content on the fly. Like, maybe it could be a list of upcoming birthdays of family and friends. That would be useful to encounter ambiently in the evening, like the calendar on the fridge but in my front room.”
- Eugene Wei, American Idle. “TikTok’s Duet feature belongs in the social media hall of fame of primitives alongside features like Follow and the Like button.”
- It’s true, everybody hates millennials. “Where millennials were cloaked in mostly faceless anonymity online (on LiveJournal, Tumblr, Twitter) or highly curated photography (Facebook, Instagram), Gen Z’s digital life is dominated by the near-constant production of images and videos of themselves (Snapchat, TikTok), creating a very different relationship between them, their peers, and the rest of the world.”
- Skittish! “A playful virtual space for online events.”
- I will read infinite articles about making perfect scrambled eggs. And then someday maybe actually take their advice.
- David Lynch wishing Kyle MacLachlan a happy birthday, and delivering today’s weather report.
