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The best and most interesting things on the internet this year
The Outline’s picks for the digital things that saved us from ourselves this year, in no particular order and just because.
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\n\n\n[bad Italian accent] https://t.co/QYHjRm0CV4
— Churlish (@Cryptoterra) December 14, 2018
The LOW←TECH solar-powered website
\n\n\nA guy just asked me if i twitter, hell yeaaaaa baby
— SHAQ (@SHAQ) February 14, 2009
\n\njust got home, let out the dogs, within minutes they cornered,attacked and killed an opossum. had to wash little bloody mouths .life on farm
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) November 12, 2009
Booking dot com
\n\n\n8-hour time lapse of a droopy plant after being watered pic.twitter.com/F5SFBXZ59k
— Carl Forrest (@CarlForrest) December 15, 2018
Borges’s short story The Library of Babel is a thought experiment: imagine every possible combination of letters printed out in 410 page books. The library would contain all knowledge and falsehoods, all of the great works of fiction and a true prophecy for everyone in the world. It would also contain all of these things, but with all the A’s and E’s switched, or with X’s between words instead of spaces. Jonathan Basile, a Ph.D. student at Emory University turned Borges's idea into a (virtual) reality. Every possible book that could be found in the Library can be read online, but to stumble on something meaningful is near impossible, which makes it all the more exciting to try.
\nReading. I love it! I am a decade late to reading Tana French but that has not tamped down my enthusiasm for her; however I was unsure the order in which to approach her oeuvre. A great post on Bookriot gave me a recommendation, and now it is an important resource for me. Thank you Bookriot. —Leah Finnegan
\nRachel Ama’s vegan cooking channel
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\nThis tweeted video of a baby kangaroo taking its first steps (hops)? Maybe there is good in the world after all.
\n\nIf you need some positivity in your newsfeed today, here’s Bradley the baby kangaroo practicing his first hops at a kangaroo sanctuary in Australia😊 pic.twitter.com/OQUfld9jzZ
— Ian Laking (@IHLaking) September 12, 2018
Aeon
\nThis tweet could win a playoff game.
\n\n\nIm trying Jennifer
— CJ McCollum (@CJMcCollum) August 15, 2018
Heavy
\nChicken-N-Kalinka
\nThe Weather Channel’s augmented reality storm surge graphics
\nRECAP
\nThey did surgery on a grape
\n\n\n?????????? https://t.co/Qtp3PuUDXE ADMIN pic.twitter.com/th1rVTNS9V
— da share z0ne (@dasharez0ne) December 7, 2018
Truly one of the greatest things on the internet: da share z0ne.
\nAnderson .Paak and The Free Nationals 2016 Tiny Desk Concert
\nFurby in a dress
\n\nMY PUSSY WROTE A THESIS ON COLONIALISM.
— Noname (@noname) September 26, 2018
Great tweet. Great rap lyric. Noname is bomb. Great mixtape and albums back to back. She raps about everything from romance and beauty standards to structural racism, gentrification, and black exploitation. —Natalie Rivera
\nHateris
\nNot being online
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The Outline’s picks for the digital things that saved us from ourselves this year, in no particular order and just because.