>>FWD this link: A Rough Guide to staying amused online when you should be working (Rough Guides Reference Titles) by Rhodri Marsden

by Rhodri Marsden

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. This book will not help you clear your Inbox.

Paperback

First published September 29, 2008

About the author

Writer, Musician, Author, Musical Director, Producer, Composer, Copywriter.

Reviews

[Thomas Edmund · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fwd this link delivers on exactly what it promises - all the best viral and hilarious webpages to be found online.

I also found the author's jaunts into explaining viral videos and commentary on them very funny. My only complaint being as the book wore on, so to did the humor.

And i guess ultimately this book has a lot of competition in the form of blogs, comment shows and the like already online, and with this in mind I'm not sure FWD this link is worth tearing yourself away from the computer to consume.