![Spotlight: HowToBasic - The Messiest YouTube Channel [Click to view videos]
In Spotlight, we shine a light on some of our favorite blogs, channels, websites, and pieces of Internet ephemera.
HowToBasic is a YouTube channel specifically devoted to making a mess thinly veiled in the name of how-to instruction. Launched in December 2011, 157 videos have been uploaded to this channel, with only a few of these narrator-less “tutorials” running longer than a minute. Titles like “How to Close a Door” and “How to Correctly Serve a Watermelon” make it easy to click out of curiosity, just to see where it could possibly lead.
It leads to a god damn beautiful mess. [View Videos]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/388723ff78a571431e219723de14ab71/tumblr_mhcdrp0Jnx1qasthro1_500.png)
Spotlight: HowToBasic - The Messiest YouTube Channel [Click to view videos]
In Spotlight, we shine a light on some of our favorite blogs, channels, websites, and pieces of Internet ephemera.
HowToBasic is a YouTube channel specifically devoted to making a mess thinly veiled in the name of how-to instruction. Launched in December 2011, 157 videos have been uploaded to this channel, with only a few of these narrator-less “tutorials” running longer than a minute. Titles like “How to Close a Door” and “How to Correctly Serve a Watermelon” make it easy to click out of curiosity, just to see where it could possibly lead.
It leads to a god damn beautiful mess. [View Videos]
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![How to be Clever [Click to continue reading]
There are several good ways one can become more clever. For example, one could read books. Reading the complete works of say, Heidegger, is almost guaranteed to raise one’s intelligence quotient, at least by a smidge. One might also dedicate one’s life to the study of something like linear metathesis in, say, Fijian. Or, one might study something like aerospace engineering, or biochemistry, or inferential statistics, or cryptography. That is not your case. You are putzing around the Internet trying to read something that’ll teach you how to be smarter. You need a shortcut.The shortcut is, obviously, to appear more clever without actually improving the frequency of your synapses. Here are six tested ways to make yourself appear smarter to other people:
Be short
Short people always seem smart. This well-known fact has been proven time and time again by numerous scientific studies around the world, so I won’t elaborate. [Keep Reading]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/23590902fda0540aa3bccd664e3a28ec/tumblr_mfnlcrS9M11qasthro1_500.png)
