Hello.

Mike Trinder emailed in after I linked to the Solidoodle sub-$500 3D printer
“Aaargh. I hate you. Have ordered one. For work (honestly)”

Stephen Lockyer replied yesterday with this:
“First I buy a MaKeyMaKey for my children (yeah, right!), now I’ve just preordered a Leap! Your newsletter is brilliant but costing me a fortune!”

I should be on commission. If it’s any consolation, putting this newsletter together has involved spending quite a lot of money on Kickstarter.

Nieman Lab: ‘How La Nación is using data to challenge a FOIA-free culture’
“As part of its innovation strategy, the newspaper is training its reporters, editors, designers, and developers on how to access information, and make it accessible to a general audience.”
http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/05/how-la-nacion-is-using-data-to-challenge-a-foia-free-culture/

5th Ave Frogger
“Real cars. Real time. Fake frog”
http://5thavefrogger.com/
(via @immerito)

Tweetwally
“Create Your Tweetwall… To get started, choose a hashtag, username, or keyword.”
http://www.tweetwally.com/
(via @shrinkwrapped)

An argument about Nikola Tesla, in three parts:
1.) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
2.) http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/
3.) http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

Lars Martinson (Cartoonist) writes about ‘3 Things I Learned When My Site’s Traffic Increased 25,000% in One Day’
http://larsmartinson.com/3-things-i-learned-when-my-sites-traffic-increased-25000-in-one-day/
“…the 48,342 people that visited my site resulted in an additional 23 e-comics sales compared to the previous day. So about 0.048% of the extra visitors made a purchase”
(via Boingboing)

LEGO Celebrates London 2012 with Olympic Minifigs
I was all ready to hate these, but some of them are actually really good
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lego-london-2012-minifigures

Yours sincerely
Roo

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