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June 4, 2015

183: Lego rental

Hello.

We Love Bricks - UK Lego rental club
“A monthly subscription of £7.99 allows you to rent one set at a time, but as many sets as you want each month. We send you a set from your Wishlist, you download the instructions and get building.  It’s up to you how long you keep the set for.”
via @drtommac
www.welovebricks.com

Comic: P.C. Hipsta
pchipsta.tumblr.com

Hipsterhammer
“I would argue the only form of competitive Warhammer is competing to see who can make each other laugh the hardest.”
hipsterhammer.tumblr.com/post/116654848706/restate-my-assumptions

Comedy Hack Day
“What Mansplainr, a Business Card Gun, and 145 Other Funny App Ideas Say About Today’s Tech Culture”
via @adewunmi
medium.com/cultivated-wit/what-145-funny-app-ideas-say-about-today-s-tech-culture-27f78ff9bc76

Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon
stupidhackathon.github.io

Jetpac City Guides
“We’ve Analyzed Every Pixel of Public Instagram Photos … Find the bars where women go, the best views, or where the hipsters are.”
(
This is the internet that we are building for ourselves, people. 'Find the bars where women go'. Sheesh.)
www.jetpac.com

SIGGRAPH 2015: Time-lapse Mining from Internet Photos
“an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections.”
(This is more like it.)
youtube.com/watch?v=wptzVm0tngc
grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse

Screentendo
“Screentendo is a desktop application that allows you to turn a selection of your screen into a playable level of Super Mario Bros.”
aaronrandall.com/blog/screentendo


Yours sincerely
Roo

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

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