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February 22, 2013

114: Bee rumble

Hello.


Elephants have a special ‘bee rumble’ they use to warn each other about bees.
“elephants not only flee from the buzzing sound but make a unique ‘rumbling’ call as well as shaking their heads … the team hopes that the new findings could help develop new ways to defuse potential conflicts between humans and elephants”
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/100427.html


Comix I/O
Create your own xkcd-style comics using HTML markup
http://cmx.io/


Goats yelling like humans
I do not like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0


Cory Doctorow on what it means to design our computers and devices to disobey us
“Fighting for information’s freedom isn’t the point. It’s people’s freedom that matters.”
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/56013-i-can-t-let-you-do-that-dave.html


Reddit vs Fashion
Only really works if you’ve spent some time on reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice first
http://fuckyeahmfa.tumblr.com/


Study of 10,000 adult movie performers
Jon Millward says “I’ve spent the last six months analyzing it to discover the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years”
http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of–10000-porn-stars/


Media Molecule’s PS4 tech demo
These guys are good. They’ve come up with an exciting use for the PS Move controller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYY-J3ckeSI


PS4 Announcement - Abridged Version
“we really would like it if you’d buy a PS Vita...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJDn0jRnUQ



Yours sincerely
Roo


Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds

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