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Ferment - literature and illustration zine
“Ferment is a quarterly non-profit zine combining original creative writing with complementary illustrations.”
http://fermentzine.com/
(A magazine from @misteraxl, @plantsarah and @jamesweiner. Thanks for the link, @psd)

iPlayer: The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer
A documentary about the Antikythera Mechanism, “a 2,000-year-old object now regarded as the world’s oldest computer”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01hlkcq/The_TwoThousandYearOld_Computer/
(Thanks, Adam.)

Robert Krulwich: Who Killed Men’s Hats?
“Why did guys stop wearing headgear in midcentury America?”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i

The Origins of the Blink Tag
Louis Montulli: “It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight.”
http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

Ben Folds on Crowdfunding
“I don’t think there’s going to be a system for a while. I think it’s just time to take it easy and try not to do it like you’re looting a drugstore.”
http://blog.omusicawards.com/2012/05/ben-folds-on-crowdfunding-we-dont-know-what-the-fk-were-doing/

Wired: Chris Anderson interviews Marc Andreessen
“People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application.”
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1

Elijah Wood posts an appropriate screenshot of Google Maps.
https://twitter.com/woodelijah/status/201781835938795520/photo/1

Yours sincerely
Roo

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