Poor internet explorer!! It’s so lame now. Here’s another example of how a certain technology can seem so new and amazing and fancy and incredible and futuristic and a mere few years later it’s just lame and retro.

There’s no secret that the media has raised the physical expectations of women through the roof to a completely unreachable place. There have been multiple documentaries, thousands  of essasys, scholarly articles or magazine articles, blog posts etc.etc.etc.etc about how the media is responsible for the rapidly dropping self-esteem of girls in society. Everywhere you look there’s half naked size 0 models showing us girls what we’ll constantly fail to strive towards.

But people neglect to remember is that men are affected as well. I mean underwear models with 48-pack and a bulge the size of a forearm are plastered 28 stories high on every second street corner. It’s known that in society, men feel the unwavering pressure to be sexy, muscly, fit and tanned to be considered desirable to women. This is why this article by the UK newspaper The Sun is so relevant, but funny.

It’s similar to the Dove Real Body Campaign (pictured below)

Although my beef with both of them is that they’re all still gorgeous girls (and gorgeous guys in the Sun article). They’re of all different colours and yes some of them are bigger than others but they’re not actually that ‘real’ looking. They’d all be considered the beautiful people of society even if they’re not stick thin.

But I guess they’re trying.

Anyway, enough of a pre-amble, this the Real Guys in Underwear ads series. It’s pretty funny and definitely makes a statement on how photoshopped and unrealistic every ad is, whether they’re of girls or boys. The perfect specimen is the foreground of underwear ads which is physically impossible to attain in real life.

Keepin’ the network alive I decided to stalk Lauren’s blog coz I think she’s pretty rad.

Definitely didn’t regret that decision after finding that gem Who Is Batdad. Serious lols.

Isn’t that funny? The US Government is sending out very important information to the public via Twitter. At first it sounds kitsch and funny but on the other hand, it just shows how Twitter is far more than a social networking site for stalking your favourite celebrities and telling the world what colour dress you’ll wear today, it’s a public and very open forum where information can be passed to anyone with internet access. You can TWEET THE GOVERNMENT BACK (that’s crazy)! Twitter is like a 24/7 newspaper or public forum for the entire world. Brilliance!

But yeah, the US Government and many other Government institutions tweeted about the Government shutting down for the day. Ha ha ha ha ha but seriously. Future.

The federal government is currently shut down.

— U.S. Department of Labor (@USDOL) October 1, 2013

The federal government is currently shut down.

— U.S. EPA (@EPA) October 1, 2013

Due to the government shutdown, we will not be tweeting or responding to any replies. We will return as soon as possible.

— U.S. National Science Foundation (@NSF) October 1, 2013

Due to the gov't shutdown, all public NASA activities/events are cancelled or postponed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience.

— NASA (@NASA) October 1, 2013

BY THE WAY

Thank you so much to Jake Baldwin’s How To about embedding tweets. i literally would have had no idea how the flip to do that. Thank you <3

Apparently this took this poor man over 10 hours. This is crazy. But it’s super interesting and awesome to see just how many bloody google doodles they’ve done. They’ve kept us entertained and informed for years but put all in succession together they’re an absolute work of art!

It’s funny how much they progressed as they started becoming bigger and more popular. The first few hundred are all based around the Google logo; it hardly changes at all, the lettering, font and placement stays the same par like two or three letters here and there. However as it progresses over time (which is why it’s so awesome this guy’s made a GIF out of them) you see just how intense it gets! It actually hurts your eyes a bit and gets pretty violent looking, but the latest ones are more and more abstract and bizarre and picturesque and over the top and not based on the Google letters very much at all. They’re much more artistic and impressive and sometimes you actually have to search for the letters.

Awesome work. It’s FAR too large to try and get the HTML code from (maybe I’m a noob and don’t know how to do it; i just went through Photobucket) seeing as its 1800 frames and over 15MB. WOW.

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