Hello.

Last weekend, I went to BERG’s Little Printer hack day. It was a lot of fun.
http://bergcloud.com/2012/07/02/little-printer-hack-day/

NYT: The ‘Busy’ Trap
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/

Shading the an LA reservoir
(Wouldn’t white balls have reflected light and heat better?)
http://worldsamazinginformation.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/400000-black-balls-save-los-angeles.html

Does Google ‘get’ people?
“Who will use any of this stuff besides the actors in Google’s promo videos?”
http://gizmodo.com/5921823/does-google-have-any-social-skills-at-all

‘Microsoft’s Downfall: inside the executive e-mails and cannibalistic culture that felled a tech giant’
“They used to point their finger at IBM and laugh. Now they’ve become the thing they despised”
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Obituary: Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld
“Don’t try to lock him up. He escapes, you know.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

Wrexham Science Festival, Thursday 19 – Friday 27 July
http://www.wrexhamsf.com/
(via Carl Hutchinson)

Shift Run Stop episode 63, with Dave Gorman
(I really really love making this)
http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2012/07/05/episode-63-dave-gorman/

Video: ‘A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGAQrEUaeU

Video: Beat Bricks - a Lego step sequencer
https://vimeo.com/45026119
(Via Mark O’Neill with two Ls.)

Mini park scenes on nails
Alice Bartlett (@alicebartlett) is a genius
http://www.stylist.co.uk/beauty/cool-nail-art-scenes-by-flickr-photographer-alice-bartlett

All Hail Sauron
James Bridle (@stml) is a genius.
http://twitpic.com/a4bc09
http://instagram.com/p/MttxqjiHP1/

Yours sincerely
Roo

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