Nuclear Monster

Category: internet

  • 🍕 in 2015

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    Bruce Horovitz: Domino’s regulars will be able to order by tweeting only the pizza emoji to @Dominos. In 2016, Domino’s regulars will be able to order lap-band surgery just by tweeting a lap-band emoji to the hospital of their choice.

  • We’re All Doomed: Part LXVII

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    Chris DiBona announces the shutdown of Google Code: When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety…

  • Hypnotize

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    How did Dinosaurs go extinct when they could rap like this?

  • Shameful Internet Shaming

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    Jon Ronson’s How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life: In the early days of Twitter, I was a keen shamer. When newspaper columnists made racist or homophobic statements, I joined the pile-on. Sometimes I led it. The journalist A. A. Gill once wrote a column about shooting a baboon on safari in Tanzania: “I’m told…

  • Online Communities are not Doomed to Fail

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    Martin Belam: What I’ve seen again and again is that a hardcore knot of the community become hyperactive on the board, and this begins to inhibit new users from posting. A classic example, from the Points Of View boards, would be that someone would post saying they think Bruno was being a bit harsh on…