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October 12, 2012

97: Doing well

Hello.


Standup: Tig Notaro Live ($5)
“Tig, by the way, has since undergone a double mastectomy. She is doing well. Her doctors say her chances of survival are excellent. So she went there and came back. Her report from the frontlines of life and death are here for you to… enjoy”
https://buy.louisck.net/purchase/tig-notaro-live
https://buy.louisck.net/news/about-tig-notaro
(via This American Life podcast)


Conference: Boring 2012
Sunday 25TH November, London
“The Boring conference is an annual one-day event dedicated to the boring and the mundane, the obvious and the over-looked.”
(First tickets went on sale, and sold out, today. More are coming.)
http://boringconference.com/2012/10/08/boring–2012-details/


Anonymous statement on Wikileaks
“We have been worried about the direction Wikileaks is going for a while. In the recent month the focus moved away from actual leaks and the fight for freedom of information further and further while it concentrated more and more on Julian Assange.”
http://pastebin.com/Juxb5M26


Kickstarter in the UK
“Beginning October 31, people in the United Kingdom will be able to launch their projects on Kickstarter”
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-in-the-uk


Sad YouTube
“Moments of melancholy, sadness and saudade from the lives of strangers, gleaned from the unfairly maligned ocean of YouTube comments.”
http://sadyoutube.com/


Oli Beale subtly photoshops his friend James’ face
Oli Beale subtly photoshops his friend James' face "I like going onto my friend's Facebook page, taking photos of him, changing his face slightly then putting them back up on Facebook. He doesn't like me doing this." (Oli is a genius)
http://www.oliandalex.com/james-face/


Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_vWkv50uk
(via @harrym)


Uncertain rainbow
“Imagine Twitter without user names or profiles. Instead, each user has their own unique colour.”
http://auchonwater.com/2012/08/19/uncertain-rainbow-words-colour/


BlaBlaMeter
“how much bullshit hides in your text?”
http://www.blablameter.com/index.php


YouTube: Being a Dickhead’s Cool
(another classic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU


Yours sincerely
Roo

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

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