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April 25, 2012

56: Human friendly

Hello.


Matt Richardson: Descriptive Camera
“instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene”
(Camera BeagleBone Mechanical Turk Adafruit IoT printer)
http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/
(via @skinnr and others. Thanks, everyone)

Wired: Vint Cerf - the author of the TCP/IP protocol
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/epicenter-isoc-famers-qa-cerf/
(via lots of people. Thanks, everyone)

Prismatic
“Discover relevant news”
http://getprismatic.com/
(also via @andypiper. Thanks Andy. If you like this, you might also want to try Percolate’s Daily Brew: http://percolate.com/invites/ - Both are in closed betas, but allow you to request an invite.)

Calm.com
“A place to relax”
http://calm.com/
(via @andypiper. Thanks Andy. There’s something weirdly dystopian about using this site though)

'What Your Klout Score Really Means'
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_klout/
(via Lee on Delicious, who accurately tagged this with ‘arseholewhuffie’. Thanks, Lee)

Citrulu
“Hosted, human-friendly, continuous front-end tests for your live websites”
http://citrulu.com/

“20% of mobile gaming is done on the toilet. Are you optimizing your game for it?”
http://twitter.com/giordanobc/status/178935741970251776
(via Paresh, who rightly asks how one would optimise a game for the toilet. Thanks, Paresh)


Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds

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