Hello.

I’m sorry to tell you that the longest day of 2012 is now behind us and the nights are now drawing in. Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere of course, in which the summer is still ahead of you. Hurrah. 

Jason Freeny’s Giant Dissected Lego Men
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/06/jason-freenys-giant-dissected-lego-men/
(via @hardillb)

Video: Lego Turing Machine
https://vimeo.com/44202270
(via Mark O’Neil. Thanks, Mark)

Photos: Lego Portal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48487023@N02/galleries/72157630188917386/
(via Ben Jackson)

Mapnificent
http://www.mapnificent.net/london/
(a bit like mapumental.com, but public and free)

Satellite Eyes
“a simple Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now”
http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/

Video: Holy levitating Slinky
“if you hold a Slinky by one end and drop it, the bottom end doesn’t actually move until the top end catches up with it”
http://kottke.org/12/06/holy-levitating-slinky
(via John Scott. Thanks, John.)

Video: Maverick Slacklines
“The Maverick team tearing it up on the UK’s first dedicated slackline park at Sandbanks beach in Poole, Dorset.”
http://vimeo.com/44399379
(I have a slackline. I can’t do any of these things.)

Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials
“a paper which the Behavioural Insights Team is publishing in collaboration with Ben Goldacre … and David Torgerson … The paper argues that Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), which are now widely used in medicine … should be used much more extensively in public policy.”
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials

Stamen: Weather weather everywhere
A travel map that “predicts what the weather’s going to be like along your drive, when you get there.”
http://content.stamen.com/weather_weather_everywhere

Video: Robotic grippers based on granular jamming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKOI_lVDPpw
(This makes me insanely happy.)

Yours sincerely
Roo

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