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LISTICLES | If you've ever spent a few hours too many watching cat videos on the Internet when you should have been working, you know how important it is to procrastinate efficiently. To that end, I humbly submit to you Matt Stopera, the only writer at BuzzFeed worth wasting your time on. Stopera's oeuvre includes instructive epistles ("Why We All Need To Start Using The Word 'Quiche'"), informative guides ("71 Reasons We Need To SAVE CORGIS FROM EXTINCTION"), and odes to the sexiest man on earth ("The 33 Most Jizz-Worthy Moments In Ryan Gosling's 33 Years On Earth"). Next time you're feeling some looming deadline pressure, resist the urge to click on your weird second cousin's vague, inane Upworthy link and instead indulge in Ryan Gosling's gleaming pectorals at buzzfeed.com/mjs538.
TWITTER | Speaking of Upworthy — the heavily trafficked, social media-driven purveyor of feel-good, socially conscious YouTube videos — why hasn't anyone invented an app that bans the site's cloying click-bait from the Interwebz forever? While we wait in anticipation, at least we can follow @UpWorthIt and @Downworth on Twitter, which mock the site's formulaic, hysterically chipper headlines with tweets like, "This Brave Young Woman Proves In Spectacular Fashion That She's Allergic To Gluten, Not Life" and "He's Not A Magician - So Why Is He Sobbing And Trying To Swallow Razor Blades On The Street Corner?" To avoid the compulsion to click on an Upworthy link ever again, there's even the @UpworthySpoiler Twitter feed. What's the "single most mind-altering photograph humanity has ever taken"? Just a blurry picture of Earth from space. Yawn.
