This chart Ann Friedman did for The Hairpin made me laugh-via-exhaling-sharply-through-my-nose, which is about as close as I get to laughing when there isn’t another human being nearby whose eyes and ears require social signifiers.
How much do you adjust the barstool and car percentages for New York?
Exactly 50 years ago today, the Beatles released their first album, “Please Please Me.”
And exactly 5 minutes ago, it dawned on me that this song is about oral sex.
Last night I said these words to my girl
I know you never even try girl
Come on, come on,
Come on, come on,
Please please me, oh yeah
And I’ll please you
Oh, John Lennon, you clever bastard!
Is Twitter being used as a numbers station?
‘GooGuns posts nothing but strings of letters and numbers, like b39e65fa00000000 in intervals of about five minutes on average. The string of characters always ends with zeroes, occasionally with the location service turned on, so you can see that 554705fa00000000 was allegedly tweeted from the “Region of Khabarovsk.” This has been going on all day and all night, for years, with more than 318,000 tweets posted since 2009. But why?’
(Source: Linkmachinego)
Number stations in social media?
