Internet highlights w/c 24th August 2014

31 08 2014

What [one person claims] Harry Potter is really about – a mental institution

Woman finds 3ft wasps nest on her bed

Portland, Oregon builds tiny houses for homeless people

Supermarkets’ back-to-school deals get a bit interesting

https://twitter.com/History_Pics/status/503265926696144897

https://twitter.com/AnimaILife/status/503995487469707265





Internet highlights w/c 17th August 2014

23 08 2014

Creative alternative solutions to problems

A Dad Took His Sons to Israel and Syria to Show Them the Difference Between War and Video Games

Downton Stars able to laugh at themselves 🙂

Troubles of the 00s teens

Best jokes from this year’s Edinburgh Fringe

The 90s button – not even going to explain, just click!

Fawlty Towers made of Lego

Doctor Who Tardis as a public toilet

Phenomenal episode of The Last Leg last night, the first 20min entirely dedicated to telling Westboro Baptist Church and Richard Dawkins where to go!


The girl from Afghanistan is found 17 years later – her story told

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Internet highlights w/c 10th August 2014

16 08 2014

Photos of the friends cast from the first and last episode

Driver leaves delivery note to say that parcel is “stuck on roof, sorry”

If “FRIENDS” was set in Britain

Inventions and innovations that we need to happen!

To care “for” or to care “about”?

Deleting emails received while “out-of-office”

Some of the best one liners from the Edinburgh Fringe this year





Internet highlights w/c 3rd August 2014

9 08 2014

The Lion King family tree

Brand advertising wars

Inventions for the modern world

FANTASTIC dialogue between the BBC One & Two Twitter accounts re the moving of the Great British Bake Off

Man opens closed road as private toll road

Spurious correlations – not sure if I posted something similar to this before, but it’s brilliant!

Angry emails between neighbours

10 reasons handheld devices should be banned for under 12s

Indonesian family find daughter who was swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami 10 years ago

21 things only University of Bath students (and graduates) will understand – laughed out loud at this!

https://twitter.com/Earth_Pics/status/495977430243614720

This one’s ooollllddddd but I rediscovered it this week after it was featured on a panel show





Internet highlights f/c 20th July 2014

3 08 2014

Another fortnight’s worth from being away last weekend! (forgot to post this last night – sorry!)

Douglas Adams definition of techonology being good or bad by age

Nerd jokes

10 types of suntan

Lego still washing up on Cornish beach 17 years after container spillage

6 subtle ways to be more productive

9 year old boy and 62 year old woman renew wedding vows…

24 Very British problems

Do workplaces need mental health first aiders?

30 adorable things Compassion children write in their letters

Which sport are you most suited to?

Cyclists from Sri Lanka training on the motorway

When money printing goes wrong

British problems (some are better than others…)

http://instagram.com/p/rMSNAOEYhH/

https://twitter.com/Adam_Lambert15/status/490911964445802496

https://twitter.com/Brilliant_Ads/status/488691227639160834

https://twitter.com/SecondarySchooI/status/489516567072210944

and apologies that it’s late, but I saved this and forgot to put it in in the right week!





Internet highlights w/c 13th July 2014

19 07 2014

Armed police on Clapham Common?

School writes to children, it goes viral

Cafe offers mums a place to breastfeed and free tea!

Workers in Seoul to be allowed afternoon naps

36 things you probably didn’t know about The Simpsons

https://twitter.com/MarkGSparrow/status/489721538724511744





Internet highlights f/c 29th June 2014

12 07 2014

f/c as opposed to w/c so “fortnight commencing” as I was away last weekend 🙂

Funny warning signs

Less-obvious signs that you’re doing work you love

Top Doctor says UK needs 4 day working week – this is what I’ve been saying!!

One woman asked 25 different countries to make a photo of her “beautiful”

What some of the biggest websites looked like when they first launched

Loom Band dress on ebay

Redeeming Love is being made into a film

The BEST ways to eat chocolate chip cookies that you’d never even thought of!

https://twitter.com/wiggywalsh/status/483288228087476226

https://twitter.com/Mattbrammeier85/status/483555942643269632

https://twitter.com/GoodFoodguyd/status/485402720376213504

Fantastic advert from Always looking at when did “like a girl” become a bad thing? And how it affects girls self confidence





Internet highlights w/c 22nd June 2014

28 06 2014

A girl writes to Google asking if her daddy can have a day off

Websites you never knew you needed

Fantastic brand responses to Suarez’s mid-game “snack”

How some people see Christians

Weird maths facts

https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/481894359827488768

https://twitter.com/JesusOfNaz316/status/480402341858795522





Internet highlights w/c 15th June 2014

21 06 2014

People who tried

Some of the highlights from Jonathan Pearce’s confusion over goalline technology in the commentary on France vs Honduras

Why women live longer than men – although I looked at some of these and thought they seemed pretty ingenius!

The correct way to cut cake

Example of slightly useless men

Why you need to take a sabbath – “if you are doing too much to take a Sabbath, you are doing too much.”

https://twitter.com/BBCSporf/status/477950649473445888

https://twitter.com/bethanmairw/status/480053986926804992

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Who would mix skittles and M&Ms?!

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England’s World Cup summed up in 6 seconds

this one might be for the ladies only…





Internet highlights w/c 8 June 2014

14 06 2014

What would it be like if England actually won the world cup? – some bad language near the start but too funny not to share and read all the way through!

TED – “I’m disabled, but I’m not your inspiration”

Creative mug designs

Acts of Kindness stories

Amazon have collated their funniest product reviews

Struggles for people who wear glasses – particularly 5, 7, 15 & 20

Some people really aren’t happy about their free copy of The Sun

Driving and texting awareness stunt from Volkswagen – video below