Hello.
Noisy Typer
“A typewriter for your laptop”
http://vimeo.com/45668483
(via @JamesWallis)
BBC spending: Where does the licence fee go?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/12/bbc-spending
Video: Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
http://vimeo.com/28457062
Fifty Shades of Grey: perfect promotional placement
"Oh Sainsbury's, you are magnificent."
http://i.imgur.com/nYlRS.jpg
https://twitter.com/webvictim/status/224295124790808576
Fifty Shades of Grey: Katrina Lumsden’s Review on GoodReads
"I fear for any impressionable young women who read this and think that this is how an ideal relationship should operate. If nothing else, it should be issued as a guidebook to mothers around the world to show their daughters the kind of man to avoid at all costs"
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215
Fifty Shades of Grey: someone objected
“I think someone objected to 50 Shades of Grey. I found this on the display in WH Smiths”
https://twitter.com/HypnoPeter/status/225908047535538176/photo/1
(via @HypnoPeter via @yoz)
Eye to Eye Wearable Hummingbird Feeder
“If you are serious about hummingbirds this feeder will take your relationship with your hummingbirds to a whole new level”
http://www.heatstick.com/_eYe2eye.htm
Awful, awful trailer: Inbetweeners USA from MTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCaEijMx3U
731 likes, 37,503 dislikes
(via Charlotte)
Tumblr: Rich Kids of Instagram
http://richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com/
via @harrison_katie
XKCD What If…?
“Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday”
(All of these are amazing so far)
http://what-if.xkcd.com/
Time travel: Time is Broken
http://matthewsheret.com/2012/02/09/time-is-broken/
And just in case you’ve never seem Matt before: http://www.flickr.com/people/mattsheret/photosof/
(I think it really might be him.)
Tech: Woz’s backback
(I thought I was bad. I’m really not.)
http://gizmodo.com/5926598/the-amazing-contents-of-steve-wozniaks-travel-backpack
Video: Lego Wire
http://kottke.org/12/07/the-lego-wire
(via @monkchips, @knolleary and @alby. You all know me too well)
Classic comedy: Bruiser - IT guy
“Matt Holness as the IT Guy that we all know and love … in sketches from the short-lived, one-series-only sketch show ‘Bruiser’ (2000)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02a723LsoFA
(via @Jack_Franklin)
Thanks for all your links everyone. Keep them coming.
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds