Hello.

I’m a father! Oliver Robin Reynolds was born on new years eve (three weeks early) weighing 2,050g or 4lbs 8.5oz in old money. He’s utterly adorable. Mother and baby are doing well, and we hope to home in another few days. Apologies in advance for what will obviously happen to flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds for the next 14 years.

Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-30-smartphone-controlled-paper-airplane

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres
e.g. Teen Girl Power Police Westerns Based on Bestsellers Set in the Victorian Era With a Strong Female Lead
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

6 lines of JavaScript that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the current series
e.g. Clara asks to visit Mars, but time is running more slowly than usual. The visitors have tough choices to make about the Judoon. A time rift saves the day. Harry Styles disappoints in a supporting role.
http://games.usvsth3m.com/drwho/

100 images randomly selected each week by the British Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/sets/72157638792012173

Song Exploder
A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
http://maximumfun.org/shows/song-exploder

Behind The Scenes of The Iconic Abbey Road Cover Photoshoot
http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/04/behind-scenes-of-iconic-abbey-road.html

Turbo Encabulator
“...work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-encabulator

Yours sincerely
Roo

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