Hello.

Wired: a look at the tiny printer trend
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/04/your-twitter-feed-as-newspaper-a-look-at-the-tiny-printer-trend/
(I’m proud of my small part in this continuing story. I’ve been wanting to draw a family tree of microprinters projects, and recently added a new comment to an old blog post which gives a (very brief) history of thermal printing hackery: http://rooreynolds.com/2009/02/01/microprinter/#comment-669217 so it’s nice to see Wired doing a better job of writing it up properly)

Imperica Horizons: the Sinclair ZX Spectrum at 30
May 5th and 6th, BFI Southbank, London. Free.
http://www.imperica.com/horizons

National Hack the Government Day 2012
(Speaking of upcoming events, I’ll be back at my office tomorrow for this)
http://rewiredstate.org/events/nhtg12

‘Kara’ video from GDC 2012
(Stunning technology demo from the creator of Heavy Rain. Thanks, Arthur)
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/721547/quantic-dreams-kara-video-from-gdc-2012-is-simply-stunning/

John Cleese: “creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating”
(Great video, thanks be to Merlin)
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/20795598521/time-and-time

“Too much time on his hands”
(This phrase is a pet hate of mine too)
http://boingboing.net/2002/02/03/too-much-time-on-his.html

Robert Brook: “I’m unsuited to village life. I couldn’t bear to think that someone might actually know who I was – or even know I existed! What a burden to carry; to have to remember other people’s narratives, of you.”
(I think I might actually be in love with @robertbrook’s brain)
http://robertbrook.com/i-ve-not-been-to-cairo

MV Blue Marlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin
(This so crazily big it hurts my mind)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanselpedia/7004136431/
http://imgur.com/oKSX8

Finally, Leila and I have made another episode of our geek/culture/comedy podcast, Shift Run Stop. It used to be weekly thing but these days it’s much more sporadic. The latest episode, which went up last night, contains an interview with Eben ‘Raspberry Pi’ Upton, plus of course the usual snack tasting and unhinged geeky discussion.
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2012/04/19/episode-62-dr-eben-upton-and-the-raspberry-pi/

If this is the first time you’ve heard of the podcast, I hope you won’t mind me using the closing words of this letter to suggest that you give it a go. There are 62 episodes to catch up on, but to get a taste for it you might enjoy
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2009/10/29/episode-2-david-schneider/
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2010/04/29/episode-24-isy-suttie/
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2010/07/08/episode-34-danny-obrien/
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2010/08/12/episode-39-denise-wilton/
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2011/12/22/episode-60-christmas-special-%e2%80%93-stefanie-posavec-sound-diaries-jon-ronson-joel-ronson-and-lee-maguire/

Yours sincerely
Roo

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