The book: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
The first sentence: “We left on a school day, so Esther wouldn’t see us.”
The bathing suit: Agua Bendita Bendito Amazonas Pareo
This is officially the weirdest Tumblr: “Matches between bathing suits and books.” Why would anyone do this
Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky.”
Jeff Richmond (native Northeast Ohioan, 30 Rock producer and Tina Fey’s husband) was the commencement speaker for one of the graduation ceremonies at Kent State last week. If you have 16 minutes on your hands, you won’t regret spending them watching his hilarious speech.
This past year marked the 25th Anniversary of the Graphics Interchange Format. From its humble beginnings at Netscape, to its current prominence in today’s Tumblr-driven culture, the GIF has come a long way, bb.
All this week, in honor of the Lifetime Achievement Award GIF inventor Steve Wilhite is receiving at this year’s Webbys we will be celebrating GIF WEEK. It’s like shark week but way, way better.
And FYI, it’s pronounced “jiff.” And that’s according to the guy who invented it. If you have any problems with that, take it up with this guy.
I’ll be cold and buried before I recognize the soft G.
