TV Buzz Lauren Kirchner's investigation into the bizzare world of Danish children's TV highlighted a sleep-themed, farting puppet loop the network employs during off hours to encourage kids to sleep during bedtime. (via theawl.com)
http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/cat-blizzard-videos-made-by...
Headline: Cabin Fever Induces Jerks to Launch Cats into Snow. [Ed. note: This comprehensive collection is both amusing and terrifying. You've been warned.]
http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s-no-one-w...
Amanda's already pointed out the Awl's End of the 00s series, but this piece about finding true love in the Aughts merits special attention. Jesus. No amount of cynicism can withstand Dan's tale.
http://www.theawl.com/author/the-end-of-the-00s
The Awl asked a small army of known internet persons to write various reflections on the last decade, and they're all pretty fantastic. Go! Learn! Enjoy.
Culture Buzz Everyone's* talking about meta-enabling, and how it encompasses all that is good and evil on the web. Just what is it?
While all of you are enjoying Thanksgiving at home with your families, The Awl's Choire Sicha gives you a glimpse of what my fellow bachelors and I will be up to tomorrow.
http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/mary-hk-choi-and-natasha-va...
Internet candy: The Awl's Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Mary HK Choi break down the latest Twilight movie for your enjoyment. The Jordan Catalano call is pretty much spot-on.
Friends at The AWL took a lot of crappy things going on in the world right now and turned it into something rather inspirational. Amazing.
Friend and Awl Business Manager David Cho turned this “Weird Animal News Report” into a meditation on the human spirit. But seriously, there is a blackbird flying around San Francisco just raining hate on people. Look out.
Gawker's made a video reel featuring influential people like Buzz Bissinger, Matt Lauer and Bill O'Reilly to woo potential web advertisers. If we ever made one of these for BuzzFeed, it would probably feature less glossy photos of sexy editors, more tree lungs and eye leeches.
Culture Buzz Choire Sicha and Alex Balk return to the internet (Yaaay). I thought I wanted to live in the collective Wonkette brain, but I just got a better offer.