Hello.

Funeral selfie collection
http://selfiesatfunerals.tumblr.com

A work one: here’s Mike Bracken talking at Code for America about redesigning government and what we’re up to at GDS. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bK9B8_0FDQ

Gorgeous river maps
(thanks, Ben Jackson)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonminar/sets/72157633504361549/

Visualisations of relationships in movies
(thanks, @fmandelbrot)
http://moviegalaxies.com/movies/512-The-Lord-of-the-Rings:-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring

Wolfram Alpha sure knows a lot about Pokemon
(thanks, @marxculture)
http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/10/10/gotta-compute-em-all-wolframalphas-new-data-about-pokemon 

These machines exist only to destroy themselves
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/10/these-literal-suicide-machines-exist-only-to-destroy-themselves/

“Try not to read The Daily Mail, with its mean stories about immigrants and its lurid pictures of celebrities who have gained or lost weight; read Private Eye magazine, and soon you will delight in its very English cleverness. Learn that there are as many meanings for the word “sorry” as there are hours in the day.”
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/travel/lessons-from-living-in-london.html

David Attenborough narrates that video
(thanks, @tomcoates)
http://player.vimeo.com/video/77785214

Yours sincerely
Roo

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