Hello.

James Thomas (aka @thomasj) thoughtfully wrote in with a recommendation:

“As someone who’s been suckered into the hotel & flight “points” games, I enjoyed the story in the newsletter [#47] about flyers making “point trips” to ensure they stay at a certain level of status (and can unfortunately empathise a bit too much). There was a good article in the LA Times about customers who bought AA’s “unlimited flights for life” tickets and then really started to take advantage of them, costing the company millions of dollars a year. ”

LA Times: ‘The frequent fliers who flew too much’
“He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506
(Thanks, James. I love that one of the uberfliers is called ‘Vroom’.)

Bobbie Johnson writing for Gigaom: ‘Is the 1% rule dead? The BBC thinks so, but it’s wrong’
“The BBC appears to have missed the fact One Percent Rule was never intended to dictate a single pattern across the entire web: it was a rough guideline for expectations inside any given online community or service.”
http://gigaom.com/europe/bbc-1-percent-rule/

Charles Arthur writing for the Guardian’s CiF: ‘Worried about online porn? Don’t regulate the net – regulate your kids’
“…too many parents (and by proxy MPs) think the solution is to regulate the internet, when the answer is to regulate the children – or better still the parents.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/07/online-porn-regulate-kids-not-net

The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed
“The project will continue in other forms and venues.”
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/22514415208/the-new-aesthetic-tumblr-is-now-closed-the-new

Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android
(I quite like the look of this. $9M from 59k backers already is impressive.)

Kitten Cam
http://new.livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/MirandasKittens

What the Space Shuttle booster saw
“You’ve likely seen other videos taken from cameras attached to the Space Shuttle and its boosters, but this is one is exceptional in two regards: it’s in HD and the sound has been remastered by Skywalker Sound.”
http://kottke.org/12/03/what-the-space-shuttle-booster-sawhttp://kottke.org/12/03/what-the-space-shuttle-booster-saw
(Gorgeous)

Yours sincerely
Roo

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