Hello.

Beardy Dads
My friend @knolleary and I have started making a podcast for dads. I hope you like it.
http://beardydads.co.uk 
(If you'd like to contribute a story/tip/question/confession, please do get it touch using podcast@beardydads.co.uk)

Google buys Nest
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/googles-3-billion-nest-buy-finally-make-internet-things-real-us

Dan Hon: Google Can Buy Nest, But It Can’t Buy Our Trust
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/google-didnt-just-acquire-nest-annexed-whole-new-territory/
(see also http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/blech/2894. Dan is brilliant.) 

Tilt shift galaxies
http://petapixel.com/2013/12/18/tilt-shift-effect-applied-photographs-cosmos-create-tiny-universe/

SayIt
Free, open source technology to bring searchable transcripts to your website
http://sayit.mysociety.org/

John Siracusa: “Geekdom is not a club; it’s a destination, open to anyone who wants to put in the time and effort to travel there”
http://hypercritical.co/2014/01/14/the-road-to-geekdom

SIGGRAPH Asia 2013: Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
http://vimeo.com/79098420

“The Hollywood Freeway chickens are a colony of feral chickens that live under the Vineland Avenue off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) in Los Angeles, California. It is not definitively known how they came to be there, although news stories generally ascribe them to an overturned poultry truck.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Freeway_chickens

Yours sincerely
Roo

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