{"id":771,"date":"2015-01-01T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2015-01-01T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:44:34","slug":"my-best-of-the-internet-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/my-best-of-the-internet-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best of the Internet 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2014 seemed to go by in a flash.\u00a0It was a strange year for me, but one constant remained: I spent a lot of time on the Internet. Here&#8217;s some of my favourite discoveries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funniest\u00a0video: &#8220;Mr Needlemouse&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BEASTS - &quot;Mr. Needlemouse&quot; - The origins of Sonic The Hedgehog\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dtg_QHQxy9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>5 minutes of comedy sketch perfection. &#8220;Fuck limpets!&#8221; Up there with the very best, yet\u00a0criminally underviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Honourable mention:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KbvBayqPH4\">Faramir Can&#8217;t Read Maps<\/a>.\u00a0Technically it was published at the end of 2013, but it gets a mention here because\u00a0I crack up every time I&#8217;ve watched it and it&#8217;s so expertly\u00a0done. It also means there&#8217;s\u00a0yet another scene in Lord of the Rings that I can no longer take seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best music video featuring Star Trek TNG and sausages: SAUSAGE SAMBA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SAUSAGE SAMBA\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clLqaaGJJZ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>not a hotly contested category to be honest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funniest\u00a0piece of writing:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2014\/06\/24\/wikipedia-entry-guam-retold-ya-novel\/\">The Wikipedia Entry for Guam, Retold as a YA Novel<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pushing confusing thoughts of United Airlines\u2019 broad back muscles and status as a subsidiary of Chicago-based Continental Holdings aside, Inarajan looked up and realized they had arrived at their destination: The forbidding edifice that was the Duty Free Shoppers Galleria. She suppressed a shiver. Her very first non-binding Presidential straw poll. Surely she would not survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bizarre and accurate and amazing and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best subreddit<\/strong><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/\">\/r\/AskHistorians<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still endlessly fascinating, and responsible for reigniting my interest in history. A close contender was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DeepIntoYouTube\/\">\/r\/DeepIntoYouTube<\/a>, which is also endlessly fascinating but in entirely different ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best artist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheSimpsonsArt\">Chris (Simpsons artist)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How could it be anyone else?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Twitter bot:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikisext\">how 2 sext<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WikiHow&#8217;s odd articles have often been a source of amusement. Even more so when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikisext\">how 2 sext <\/a>tweets\u00a0random snippets from it formatted as sexts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most horrifying Twitter:\u00a0<a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadSonicFanArt\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">BadSonicFanArt<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Internet can be a horrifying place. <a class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadSonicFanArt\">@<span class=\"u-linkComplex-target\">BadSonicFanArt<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is a constant reminder of that. As the name suggests, it just tweets and retweets examples of the worst Sonic fan art. There&#8217;s\u00a0genuine works and parody all mixed up in there, and some sort of fan art Poe&#8217;s law makes it difficult to tell which is which.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Diamond Geezer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, he writes\u00a0a few\u00a0long posts about bus journeys. Sometimes even I skip those for lack of time.<\/p>\n<p>But skipping the occasional\u00a0post hardly matters since\u00a0you can be certain\u00a0there will be another one along like clockwork the next day, and it&#8217;s very likely to be informative, amusing, or both. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s generally the first site I check\u00a0every day.\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0pretty sure the blog has\u00a0never skipped\u00a0a day, and he&#8217;s been posting for 12 years! A remarkable record.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve moved to London, this blog has taught me a huge\u00a0amount about the\u00a0city\u00a0and my local area. And I&#8217;m sure it will continue to do so in 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 seemed to go by in a flash.\u00a0It was a strange year for me, but one constant remained: I spent a lot of time on the Internet. Here&#8217;s some of my favourite discoveries. Funniest\u00a0video: &#8220;Mr Needlemouse&#8221; 5 minutes of comedy sketch perfection. &#8220;Fuck limpets!&#8221; Up there with the very best, yet\u00a0criminally underviewed. Honourable mention:\u00a0Faramir Can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/my-best-of-the-internet-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Best of the Internet 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}