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The Atlantic: 'Get Ready, Because Voyager I Is This Close to Leaving Our Solar System'
“A machine, built here on Earth by the brain- and handiwork of humans, has sailed from Florida, out of Earth’s orbit, beyond Mars, beyond the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn, and may now have left the heliosphere … we don’t know how far it has to go or what that transition to interstellar space will look like.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/get-ready-because-voyager-i-is-this-close-to-leaving-our-solar-system/258456/

World’s first ‘tax’ on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7
“Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm’s site”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979

US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet
(Thank heavens. Via Lee Maguire (http://delicious.com/url/aa5eb3fe4782a8bdf58a17ff74e665a1) who sagely points out that “the terrifying inference here is that current drones are running Windows”. Thanks Lee)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/us_navy_linux_drones/

Video: The Sound of Prometheus
“The SoundWorks Collection talks with the sound team of Director Ridley Scott’s latest science fiction film ‘Prometheus’”
(Which, by the way, I really enjoyed. Even in 3D. Don't bother with MIB3 though.)
http://vimeo.com/43796489

Video: Scream Portraits by Billy Hunt
a “converted boom box that takes a photo when you scream”
http://vimeo.com/43730434
http://www.billyhunt.com/
(via Darren Shaw)

Video: Sauber F1 Team - World Premiere: Cutaway F1 Race Car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wn1EFLa2C8
(via @chrisoshea)

DIY LEGO Key Holder
“after raiding my sons lego box I found the perfect bit to attach the key to (lego part number 3176)”
http://www.minieco.co.uk/diy-lego-key-holder/

Reddit: 'I’ve been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result'
“There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.”
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/
(via Ben Jackson)

Pointer Pointer
http://www.pointerpointer.com/
(via Danny O’Brien)

Homeless Hack Day, 16th June, London
“The idea of the homeless hack day is to try and fix some of the problems faced by homeless people and the charities supporting them, all through the use of technology”
http://homelesshack.com/
(via @alicenewton)

Open Internet of Things Assembly, 16th - 17th June, London
“Meet and discuss with thought leaders, practitioners and government bodies around the growing field of ‘Internet of Things’”
http://openiotassembly.com/
(via @knolleary)

“I, for one, would pay extra Licence Fee to have "buckets of slime" added to the #BBCQT format”
http://twitter.com/currybet/status/213392822542401538

Yours sincerely
Roo

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