Things of note for the week ending August 29th, 2014.
1. McMoons
No, this story isn’t about a lunar McDonald’s opening up sometime soon. No. This is in fact a STUPENDOUSLY AWESOME story about a bunch of ex-NASA civilians deciding to capture an abandoned satellite by taking over a disused McDonalds and assembling the tools they need from EBAY. Yes, that’s right, EBAY.
Not. Kidding.
Honestly, this is one of the best things I’ve read this month.
McMoon’s is, of course, what the crack team of space commandos have [re]christened their new home. Love it.
2. Ricky & Jerry
Jerry Seinfeld has, for some time now, had his own web series simply called ‘Comedians in cars getting coffee’. If you’ve never watched it before well hurrah! You’ve got loads to catch up on.
I watched the Ricky Gervais one last week and, aside from being hilarious, it reminded me not only of the lovely friendship the two have but also the quite frankly, fantastic HBO special, ‘Talking Funny‘.
It’s a 49 minute long discussion about comedy between Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louie CK, and Ricky Gervais – and it is GOLD.
Watch it tonight instead of TV.
You won’t regret it.
3. Minority Reporting
A short dissection of the finale of the [criminally underrated] Minority Report. Spoilers, obviously. But read this and I doubt you’ll ever be able to watch it in the same way again.
4. Distracting Extras
I’m not a big one for adding list posts to a list of posts you should read. HOWEVER. This list of ‘The 12 most distracting extras in movie history‘ genuinely made me chuckle. Yes, the Star Wars Storm Trooper is in there, but what about the underwear girl from Teen Wolf? You ever seen her before?
Great work.
Link contains 12 YouTube clips. FYI.
5. What’s next for Twitter?
A great piece of conjectural thinking from Alex Young of We Are Social. If you’re sat around thinking ‘Exactly what is next for this Twitter thing I work so hard on?’, then this post is a really good place to start.
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Bonuses this week:
- Instagram has launched its own set of business tools [for advertising partners].
- How much Stanley Kubrick trivia can you stand? (I miss Kubrick).
- NSFW Robin Williams story. Amaze.
- ‘How I became a one man intelligence agency‘ – great read.
- HORNS is coming this Halloween. You might like it.
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