Posts Tagged ‘ wtf ’

Freakstarter: Kickstarter’s weirdest campaigns in one place

May 13, 2013
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Freakstarter: Kickstarter’s weirdest campaigns in one place

Kickstarter is a great place for getting all sorts of weird and wonderful projects off the ground, and Freakstarter is a new blog that focuses very much on the ‘weird’ part of that equation. Accurately describing itself as “a selection of freaky Kickstarter projects,” the site collects together some of the oddest ideas crying out for…

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Crowd Surfing The Zombie Apocalypse, Or, Why Spotify’s TV Ad Is So Creepy We Made A Parody

March 26, 2013
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I love you Spotify, but you’re freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It’s supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the wonder of listening to almost any song ever on demand. Yet with a useful product to sell and all the emotional resonance of music to lean on, the ad…

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My Phone And I Are Never Getting Out Of Bed

March 23, 2013
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Our beds used to be finite. A limited range of activities took place there. We’d sleep, or try to, make love, eat, and maybe read a paperback. But we could only hide from the world for so long

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Stolen tweets: @WhatTheFFacts gets caught ripping off content from @MadeUpStats

February 16, 2012
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What happens when you’re simply too big to care? That’s a question that @WhatTheFFacts could answer, it would seem. The account, with its nearly 2 million followers, appears to be taking content directly from another account @MadeUpStats, then sending it out as if it’s original. Only 1 in 17 Twitter users is actually as hot…

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