Hello.

Yesterday, we were speaking of Sudoku. Here’s a good quote on a good page.
“… computer security expert Ben Laurie has stated, Sudoku is ‘a denial of service attack on human intellect’ …”
http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

Bruce Sterling: An Essay on the New Aesthetic
“…it’s a postulated creative position. By metaphorically pretending that machines are our friends, we can see what they ‘see,’ and think what they ‘think’… We do get a payoff for that effort. We achieve creative results that we would not have gotten without that robot disguise.”
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/

Look Outside, Y’all, a Twitter bot by @tomscott
“a Twitter bot that checks Instagram once a day, a few minutes before sunset. If it sees that a good proportion of photos around London are tagged or described with sunset, then it’ll tell the internet that it, collectively, should go outside and take a look”
http://twitter.com/lookoutsideyall

Pam Selle: Go the F*** Home [Ignite talk]
http://thewebivore.com/go-the-fuck-home-my-ignite-talk
(via @tomstuart)

Kickstarter: blockbuster effects
What effect does a do popular project have on other Kickstarter projects?
“Of the 60,000 people whose first-ever pledge was to Double Fine, 13,715 of them (22%) have backed another project.”
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/blockbuster-effects

Ozzy: Converting all my Amiga Disks
(I used to work with Ozzy. He’s great, and this is a great little project.)
http://dwellertech.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/converting-all-my-amiga-disks.html

Venturebeat: Why Groupon is poised for collapse
“Groupon is essentially a sub-prime lender that does zero risk assessment”
http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/31/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse/
[via @bowbrick]

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
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