Hello!

Happy 30th birthday to you, ZX Spectrum. Sorry I didn’t get you anything.

Charlie Brooker on the Olympics
“it’s handy there are the Olympic sponsors to help us get into the spirit of things”
(His Twitter account has been fun recently too: @charltonbrooker)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/22/olympics-thank-god-for-sponsors

Meanwhile…
“The ‘Lympics are Coming”
(Gloriously deranged, via B3ta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OASGjMEPgZ0

Valve Handbook for New Employees
“We want innovators, and that means maintaining an environment where they’ll flourish.”
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf [PDF, obviously]

“[late 18th century] tourists would stand with their back to the landscape and look at a reflection of it rather than look directly at the landscape they had traveled to see. The Claude glass may be a long-forgotten piece of technology, but in that regard it’s a perfect metaphor for much of the modern Web”
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/picture-pluperfect/
[via @immerito]

Myles Dyer: SOPA Analogies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVbmYaimxcY

JOBS!

If you apply for either of these, please tell them I sent you…

Hide&Seek (a brilliant game design agency) are looking for a producer based in NYC.
http://www.hideandseek.net/2012/04/18/ny-based-producer-mid-term-highly-awesome-opportunity/

Torchbox are looking for a designer based in Oxford.
http://torchbox.theresumator.com/apply/rUFzWx/Middleweight-Designer.html

Yours sincerely
Roo

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