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NASA remotely controls Athlete rover with Leap Motion
“In an unexpected demonstration at the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, scientists from NASA used the Leap Motion to control a six-legged, one-ton Athlete rover located at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.”
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4154900/nasa-athlete-leap-motion-GDC

A personal statement from Iain Banks
“as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I’m expected to live for ‘several months’ and it’s extremely unlikely I’ll live beyond a year”
http://www.iain-banks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-iain-banks/

Roger Ebert dead at 70 after battle with cancer
You know what? Fuck cancer.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html

Photos from Cairo
http://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/131308.html?thread=7219180
via @benosteen

Recent photos from the Rason Special Economic zone in North Korea, by photographer Marko Moudrak
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markomoudrak/sets/72157633138298807/

Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
http://archive.org/details/ird059
Thanks, @shawdm who says “You know how the shipping forecast is incredibly calming and reassuring?  These are the opposite.”

Congratulations to Matt Jones who is off to New York
“Later this month I’ll be starting work at Google, specifically their Creative Lab in NYC, as Interaction Design Director”
http://magicalnihilism.com/2013/04/03/a-new-career-in-a-new-town/

Dragonballing
I do love the internet.
http://imgur.com/a/LsgGd?gallery

Yours sincerely
Roo

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