- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Rough Guides (1 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848360193
- ISBN-13: 978-1848360198
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #78 in Books > Reference > Directories > Internet
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From skate-boarding dogs to Arnold Schwarzenegger photoshopped into a swimsuit and sat on George Bush’s lap >>FWD This Link brings together the biggest distractions of the past decade into an addictive user-friendly Rough Guide. Rhodri Marsden, Technology columnist for the Independent and guru on the webs weirdest, shares the coolest virals and hoaxes and the funniest YouTube clips. Discover the unsuspecting internet stars, and the reason why we loved them from the Star Wars Kid to the Numa Numa guy. The guide is packed with the webs most entertaining wildlife including fainting goats and frisky donkeys. Let’s not forget the power of the email and those living to regret clicking the “send” button, only for their heart-felt love letters to be splashed across the press the next morning. Those wonderful websites that have you coming back again and again, brow-furrowing collections, online museums and shopping sites that defy belief – they’re all here to keep you amused online when you should be working.
Warning: This book will not help you clear your Inbox.
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Rhodri Marsden is Technology columnist for The Independent and guru on the webs weirdest virals
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a brilliant book ideal for procrastinating! It suggests a HUGE range of websites to visit and online videos to watch when you really should be doing something more important. You can find sites that allow you to blow up fellow jelly babies in a battle to your confectionery grave, watch drunk people falling over or even watch sand fall from the top to the bottom of your screen.
Whichever you decide to do, this book will keep you amused for hours.
Sure, I could find some of these things on the internet myself, and have previously seen a few, but I like how the book brings the amusement of the internet together in this little guide.
Overall, it's a light-hearted guide to avoiding boredom that I really enjoyed.
Whichever you decide to do, this book will keep you amused for hours.
Sure, I could find some of these things on the internet myself, and have previously seen a few, but I like how the book brings the amusement of the internet together in this little guide.
Overall, it's a light-hearted guide to avoiding boredom that I really enjoyed.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a very Scottish centric book and is also very out of date. Buy it for people who think that 'app' is short for 'apple', but don't buy it for people who use the interweb or they will think you are defected or something. There are far funnier things actually on the internet rather than killing trees and making orangutans homeless for a quick buck like this book is doing.
AVOID!
AVOID!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A FUN time-waster!
30 Mar 2009
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I read through this book, cover to cover, at a time when I did not have access to my computer. It was a fun read on its own. And now I intend to go through the book at a more leisurely pace and check out a number of the sites -- and, yes, in all probability, FWD a Link or two!
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