Hello.

A while week at my new job. Busy busy busy. Here's what I got up to in week one.

http://rooreynolds.com/2012/02/24/weeknotes-1-predictive-vs-adaptive/

Bobbie's 'Matter' project hits its $50k funding target within 38 hours. Congratulations!

(I've a proud backer, and you can still be one too.)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readmatter/matter

John Peel's record collection to go online 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17139449

-> http://www.thespace.org/

"how are we doing with the.email deletion policy?" "Do you reckon you could add some telling IT arguments to back up my legal ones?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9102231/Phone-hacking-News-of-the-World-bosses-ordered-emails-to-be-deleted.html

Programmers being dicks

http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/ 

[via @monkchips]

Bot or Not?

I let it test my Twitter account. "This account posts a suspiciously high number of links." Hmm..

http://botornot.net/project

How you can prepare children for the future when their jobs probably haven't been invented yet?

http://www.labourteachers.org.uk/2012/02/23/how-you-can-prepare-children-for-the-future-when-their-jobs-probably-haven't-been-invented-yet/

[via @alby]

Um. Hang on... why not?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/9096123/Were-just-not-ready-to-be-Swedes-Dave.html

"Daniel Kaufman had literally founded a company with the aim of protecting the internet from people like himself."

http://gawker.com/5883035/the-montauk-grifter-how-one-con-man-used-okcupid-for-fun-fraud-and-profit

This Is My Jam comes out of private beta. I like the approach (you can specific have one 'jam' per seven days, and that scarcity makes it special and interesting) but I'm not fond of its spammy Twitter updates. 

http://www.thisismyjam.com/

"a really smart version of John Candy"

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/kim-dotcom-pirate-king-02152012.html

Cassetteboy vs The News

About as NSFW as you'd expect if you've seen any of Cassetteboy's other videos. Unless you're wearing headphones of course, in which case you'll be fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-kbMF1GF2A

[via b3ta.com]

Have a good weekend. 

Yours sincerely

Roo

Roo Reynolds

@rooreynolds

http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds