Hello.

First of all, some advance warning; this will be the last daily newsletter for a while. I’m going to try weekly (every Friday) for the next few weeks, partly because I’ve got some holiday coming up and I need a rest and  I don’t want to stop doing this altogether. Putting this together every day has become a welcome habit, but I’ve wanted to try a weekly routine for a while. Let’s see how it goes. For now, here’s a bumper batch of links to keep you going until next Friday. Enjoy.

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Scrabble for cheaters
“…someone make a judge cry two years ago because it got so heated.”
http://gameological.com/2012/05/scrabble-for-cheaters/
(via Michael Reeve BA PhD)

Charlie Stross: ‘SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?’
“in the past 30 years the only truly challenging new concepts to come along were cyberpunk and the singularity … today you don’t need to read SF to get a sense of wonder high: you can just browse ‘New Scientist’. We’re living in the frickin’ 21st century. Killer robot drones are assassinating people in the hills of Afghanistan.”
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/sf-big-ideas-ideology-what-is-.html

Kickstarter hides failure
“If you hide failure, it’s hard to learn from others’ mistakes.”
http://misener.org/archives/1354

An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube
“it’s just some NBC internet robot that scans YouTube videos and then compares the videos to the vast NBC library and just blocks the YouTube videos that match up, because the robot assumes the video has been stolen”
http://splitsider.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-to-jay-leno-about-stealing-my-video-and-then-getting-it-removed-from-youtube/
(via Waxy)

LSE: ‘Democracy is in danger as young people’s disenfranchisement accelerates’
“In 2021, 18-year olds will exercise less actual voting power than 79 year-olds. 50 year-olds will exercise 97 per cent more power than 18 year-olds…”
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/2012/05/14/cohort-size-matters-democracy-in-danger-as-young-peoples-disenfranchisement-accelerates/
(via Jon. Thanks, Jon)

Quirky
Collaborative invention? I like this in theory. I initially only made it two minutes into the intro video before I had to stop it and throw up.
http://www.quirky.com/

iOS app: Storyful
“Our global team of curators spend their days looking for the most compelling stories on social platforms such as YouTube and Twitter”
http://itunes.apple.com/app/storyful/id512252168
(I have not tried this yet)

A Raspberry Pi case made out of Lego by @sparky0815.
http://twitter.com/sparky0815/status/201742287456321536/photo/1
(Lovely. I will definitely have to do the same when mine arrives.)

Learn code the hard way
http://learncodethehardway.org
(via Paul Cronk. Thanks, Paul)

Adam Buxton reads out YouTube comments for Apple Mac Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-WBaSNrTQ
(The funniest video I’ve seen today.)

See you next week. Enjoy the weather.

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
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