Get down with the kids: attack them with pictures of angry goats
All the most exciting technological innovations start life in the US, don't they? The space shuttle, the iPhone, the lightbulb. Now, a new invention can be added to this list - an app that enables you to send your friends pictures of goats, purporting to be from the goats themselves, along with faintly disappointing goat puns. It is inexplicably popular with a certain genre of tech blog, and thus it reaches us. This is probably how jazz began.
While you have to live in the US to receive a Goat Attack, you don't have to live there to send one. Accordingly, I went online and paid $0.79 to bombard my expat friend Jon with goat puns. It felt more gleeful than I had expected. This sense only grew when I learned that Jon, an intrepid journalist who, by and large, does not write about goat-based text apps, had been a little unnerved initially, thinking he was "being targeted by someone I'd pissed off with a story".
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