Hello.

Devin LeBlanc: Smackdown on the shore
(I bought a radio controlled helicopter this week. I’m not very good (and it’s pretty basic 3 channel coaxial job, i.e. better at flying straight and hovering than doing any tricks) so when I watch this video my brain just boggles.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFM4uoZOLg

C64, 30 years on
“For them, it must have been pretty incredible...”
(Yes. Yes, it was)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707

The Lion King Rises
(Via everyone. Audio from DKR trailer brilliantly recut with video from the Lion King. This is brilliant.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRsPDhyHrc

The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown
(When Microsoft says “Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6” you know it’s serious. Via @tomskitomski)
http://www.ie6countdown.com/

TunnelBear
“experience the internet as if you were living in another country”
(via @helenbowyer)
http://www.tunnelbear.com/

Guy walks into a bear while texting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAntD1-DIk

Bo-Taoshi: Japanese Pole Toppling Game
(Why is this not already an Olympic sport? Via @jack_franklin and @MichaelDFAllen)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bo-Taoshi

Paul Hunt on the uneven bars, 1981
(As with Les Dawson’s piano playing, you have to be very good to appear to be this bad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-YAMiS5wA

The happiest Olympic worker 2012
“open arms but with gritted teeth”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmoRy444MY

Thomas Heatherwick’s Cauldron
(My favourite design thing so far this year by a long way)
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/22698/heatherwick-studio-2012-london-olympics-cauldron.html

Was an Olympic record set today?
http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com

Yours sincerely
Roo

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