The strangest things tend to go viral on social media, so it’s not too surprising when a dead raccoon is elevated to news coverage. On July 9th, a dead raccoon lay on the sidewalk in Toronto for more than 12 hours before the city’s animal services finally scooped it up to take it to a better place. Before...Read More
A perennial complaint from Facebook users is that they don’t have much control over what appears in their news feed, the main flow of posts on their Facebook homepage or app screen. The social network’s mysterious computer algorithm analyzes thousands of signals, then spits out what it thinks you want to see based on the...Read More
Fonts are already known to cause emotional reactions but can they be used to recreate the frustration of being dyslexic? That was the task final year design student Daniel Britton set himself after being diagnosed as dyslexic and realising that his friends and teachers couldn’t appreciate what it meant. The font, in which he removed...Read More
It’s said you can’t keep a good man down — unless of course you’re trampling on his rights for equality so says Indian online lifestyle magazine Maggcom. In a controversial move, the publication recently launched an online campaign called #DontMancriminate, which aims to promote equality for men and women alike, with the emphasis on men....Read More
Quickly spreading across the internet like a clip of the latest Kayne West outburst, the video below has been filling newsfeeds as an impressively smart and subtle public service announcement that doesn’t beat people over the head. The video was created for AV-OG-TIL, a Norwegian NGO (non-governmental organization) that is working to reduce the harmful effects of...Read More
