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Kotaku: How Video Game Fans Mourn the Death of One of their Own
“The best and most generous parts of a community’s nature often show when tragedy strikes it.”
http://kotaku.com/5942638/how-video-game-fans-mourn-the-death-of-one-of-their-own

Mike Bracken: This is my Hillsborough (from 2009)
“we should also celebrate those fans whose heroic behaviour and dignity was in stark contrast to the antipathy and ineptitude of the South Yorkshire police, and the mercilessly inhuman press coverage by the Sun”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/14/hillsborough-post-traumatic-stress-disorder

Jon Stewart on the first Daily Show after 9/11
“I wanted to tell you why I grieve, but why I don’t despair”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcmc2AZ6ZE

Ghosts in the ROM
“here is the team that twenty five years ago found space in the ROM to include their own images as an easter egg”
http://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/
(via @mildlydiverting)

Dan Lyons (‘Fake Steve’) editorial: Apple’s iPhone launches no longer excite
“To use a car analogy, six years ago the iPhone was like a sexy new flagship model from BMW or Porsche. Today it’s a Toyota Camry. Safe, reliable, boring. The car your mom drives. The car that’s so popular that its maker doesn’t dare mess with the formula.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19557497

Showing the iPhone 4S to people and telling them it’s the iPhone 5
“that’s definitely noticeably better… a lot lighter than the last one”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4

Apple ‘Ping’ social network shutting down at the end of this month
“We tried Ping and I think the customer voted and said, ‘This isn’t something that I want to put a lot of energy into.’”
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/goodbye-ping

Mobile over the next 10 years. What should we expect?
“however the phone looks, whoever makes it, and whatever robot army it controls, the role of the phone in 10 years will be to marry our flesh and data ever more tightly”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/09/what-will-the-phone-of-2022-look-like/262300

Wired - The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords
"potentially worrying implications for freedom of speech"
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/streaming-videos-robotic-overlords-algorithmic-copyright-cops/all/

James Burke’s mind-bending closing talk at dConstruct this year
“all those predictions driving us forward through our history have brought us finally to the unexpected realisation that the future is, suddenly no longer what it used to be”
http://archive.dconstruct.org/2012/admiralshovel

Event: Happenstance Showcase at NESTA
Monday, September 24, 2012 from 3 - 5 pm, London
http://happenstanceshowcase.eventbrite.com/

Some of my collections
(I gave a talk this week about the connection between collecting and creativity; I think it’s about giving your hands something interesting but unimportant to do.)
http://rooreynolds.com/2012/09/13/some-of-my-collections-2012/

Yours sincerely
Roo

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