You might have heard of this little indie film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s proving rather popular, even before it officially opens, with fans finding creative ways to honour it, and the Internet doing what it does best, generating useless memes, which is all great fun for Star Wars nerds — as long as they don’t […]
Read more "Star Wars Weather Forecast"The good people over at Man Crates asked me to post some classic practical joke uses for duct tape. For bloggers who don’t have time to do these but would still like to fool some people today, Man Crates can help you out by wrapping your blog in duct tape. Here are some classic April Fools Day […]
Read more "Happy April Fools Day!"Why are the people in the Lumosity ads always so f*cking smug? I’m pleased that they’re training their brains with neuroplasticity. I really am. But do they have to look so bloody self-satisfied? Maybe they wouldn’t look so pleased with themselves if they knew that we knew that the ad concept isn’t that original. The […]
Read more "Why are the people in the Lumosity ads so bloody smug?"Why didn’t anybody think of this before? There is a crowdfunding site raising money to ensure that the band Nickelback never plays in London ever again. The ingeniously named Donletnickelback is “attempting to ensure that Canadian ‘rockers’ Nickelback do not come to London, England to play a gig. With your help, we can ensure that the band do not […]
Read more "Dontletnickelback: Crowdfunding For Music Lovers"So who’s the more interesting lyricist, the prophetic engraver of the Romantic Age who supported revolution or the man who owns 45% of Forbes Magazine?
Read more "Blake versus Bono: “Songs of Innocence” Then & Now"By Niall McArdle The Hanksy – source: 1027kord.com Prince Harry recently photobombed some sports officials at the Commonwealth Games, as did his grandmother last week. When even royals are getting in on the photobombing trend, it’s a sure sign that the vogue for the selfie has been replaced by something far […]
Read more "How To Photobomb Like A Celebrity"By Niall McArdle We are living in parodical times: it seems there is nothing in the culture that doesn’t invite mockery. This has always been the case of course (Aristophanes mocked his Athenian peers; Henry Fielding wrote The Life and Adventures of Joseph Andrews as a piss-take on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.) Now, though, the internet makes its […]
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Read more "April A to Z – C is for Cats: why is the Internet so full of felines?"By Niall McArdle All this month I’ll be taking part in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, blogging my way through the alphabet. So, beginning with A … for April Fool’s Day: Here are some of the best April Fool’s Day Pranks of all time Washing the Lions In March 1860 cards were […]
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