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Radiolab: Speedy Beets
“Late in life, Beethoven got his hands on a metronome, went back into his symphonies, and marked them with tempos that are shockingly fast – so fast, in fact, that most conductors simply refuse to play them as marked.”
Beethoven as it was (probably) meant to be played sounds so much better.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/feb/19/speedy-beet/

Walter Murphy: A Fifth of Beethoven
“a disco adaptation of some passages of the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony”
(108 bpm)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFbn8EbB4k

Fainting Goats
(via John Scott, who likes the goats video in last week’s newletter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg

Michael Jackson’s Signature Dance Moves Animated in Lego by Annette Jung
(via several kind people)
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/michael-jacksons-signature-dance-moves-animated-in-lego-by-annette-jung/

I like a good cake, but this looks like a bad cake. Please don’t make this cake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=863fEIEvNIc

Groupon CEO goodbye memo
Battletoads and user data.
“If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through”
(I also liked “have the courage to start with the customer”)
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupoin/

Jim’ll Paint It
“I am here to make your wildest dreams a reality using nothing but Microsoft Paint … Ask me to paint anything you wish and I will try no matter how specific or surreal your demands”
(via Ben Jackson)
http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

Yours sincerely
Roo

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