Monday 10 July 2017

6x6

sidebar conversation: company releases custom cellular phone to commemorate the meeting of US-Russo leadership on the sidelines of the G-20 summit

bucket-list: holding more than ten billion photographs, a hosting website is extorting uploaders by changing exorbitant fees to link to old images, effectively erasing great, historic swaths of the internet, via Super Punch

your daily donald: Iranian website sponsors a Dear Leader caricature contest, via Everlasting Blört

acme corporation: Chicago graffiti artist creates a Wile E Coyote and Road-Runner storyboard

sacré dépanneur: Nag on the Lake shares an appreciation of the Québécois neighbourhood corner shop—which comes from the verb “to troubleshoot”

better with the broom complicate: a neural network (previously here, here, here and here) tries to write titles and synopsises for Harry Potter fan fiction