Nick Douglas

Imperial Grand Editor — 996 posts

Slacktory's founding editor, the former editor of Gawker Media's Valleywag and AOL's Urlesque. He is the editor of the 2009 book "Twitter Wit," and has contributed to Wired, Slate, PC Mag, Esquire.com, Gawker and BlackBook. He lives in New York with his girlfriend, who understands what a ragetoon is.

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Nick and Siri make cocktails

2012/12/20

Nick’s got a date tonight.
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Shut down all the “your Kickstarter sucks” blogs, I found the worst project in the world

2012/12/13

While checking my Facebook spam, I saw someone’s pitch for an Indiegogo project called “StarLikeMe”. The idea: What if one website did everything all the biggest websites do? What if this site didn’t combine the existing sites, but by replicating the systems that took collective billions of dollars to build and maintain, all for twenty grand?

Do you want to blog (Tumblr); tweet (Twitter); post a message for a friend (Facebook); upload a video (YouTube); store photos (Flicker); edit and share photos (Instagram); have a pin-board (Pinterest)? All of these features and more will be available just as you know them on these other sites. This is a site for all of us to use and enjoy and will provide the latest features of all the major sites.”

What if the pitch video for that website was a few kids, a rapper, and a hot blonde all shouting “Star Like Me, where the stars shine!” And then a lady explains how inconvenient multiple websites are? And it’s all in Eastern European accents, the official accent of sounding shady as fuck?

Oh it is. It’s even shoddily edited and poorly rehearsed. »
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The Year in Memes!

2012/12/13

Everybody’s getting into meme-tracking! Google’s got their Zeitgeist, Facebook’s got their grandma-like definition of memes. So Slacktory made our own chart of 2012′s best memes:

Background photo via A Place to Love Dogs
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Nick and Siri get a pet

2012/12/11

Spoiler: It dies.

Watch Nick and Siri argue about what pet to get. »
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Chart: How much I know vs. how much I pretend to know

2012/12/10

I’m a pretty smart guy! But not the way you think I am.
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2012/12/10

A Slacktory holiday classic: The eight most depressing Christmas songs, from melancholy to slice-your-wrists.
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#NaNoWriMoClosers: A lot like #NaNoWriMoOpeners, if you can believe that

2012/11/30

The same crowd who started November with #NaNoWriMoOpeners are finishing it with #NaNoWriMoClosers. While the ones below are all great, I’ve missed so very many excellent closing lines from fake novels.

https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/274547136870359040

https://twitter.com/slennonhugs/status/274527321464111105

https://twitter.com/mallelis/status/274574150994116610

See more fantastic #NaNoWriMoClosers. »
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Good 10 Guy Greg: He’s a hero, but he’s high as shit

2012/11/30

Good Guy Greg always has your back. 10 Guy is too high to function. Combined, they really aren’t as helpful as they want to be.

Redditor Medikated resurrected this photoshop combo two days ago. It had a moment a few months ago, but it deserves more attention. Below are my own Good 10 Guy Gregs. Submit one to /r/adviceanimals, or make your own at Quickmeme!

See 16 more Good 10 Guy Greg memes. »
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This Is Everything: This woman is definitely not real

2012/11/29

I’d like to congratulate these two actresses for their slick duo work. What seems to be the main monologue is in fact a patter set up for the mother’s impeccable timing, as she chimes in like the world’s most depressing hype man.

No real person could accidentally be this funny. These lines were honed for weeks by the Mr. Show writing team, then punched up by Mitchell and Webb. Each of those hiccups was a carefully timed sapphire placed on this jeweled crown.

The bit where the mom pulls up her…

Yes, these women are definitely fake.

Watch what is clearly an elegant troll by a superteam of the world’s top comedians. »
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#HireKevin: Man tries to become Applebee’s spokesman over Facebook and Twitter

2012/11/29

Facebook is topping all our news feeds with obnoxious brand posts, while hiding updates from pages we actually liked. Clicking to hide the post leaves me feeling impotent. My colleague Henry likes to leave stupid comments on these promoted posts, punishing the brands for so desperately chasing his likes.

It looks like Kevin Matuszak is doing that, but on a grand scale. He’s begging Applebee’s to hire him, in a Facebook comment thread that’s gotten 182 comments and 265 likes. And whoever runs the Applebee’s Facebook page has been responding every now and then, checking on his progress — and then helping him along. They’re trying to turn it into a publicity stunt. A very silly, stupid, actually-fun publicity stunt.

On Monday, Kevin wrote on the Applebee’s Facebook timeline: “hi, can I work for you?” They replied, “Check if your local Applebee’s is hiring!”

But Kevin said he wanted a job at corporate. And he kept bugging them. With updates like these:

See Kevin’s insane campaign to become the public face of Applebee’s. »