Friday February 10, 2012
Hello.
Happy Friday everyone, and a warm welcome to all the new subscribers. There are an eye-watering 217 of you now. Thank you for letting me in to your eyes. I hope I'll continue to be interesting. If you've ever had enough, the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email. I'd also love to hear from you, especially if you notice something interesting that you've enjoyed and would like me to share in a future Roo's Letter. Just reply to this email with any links, comments, questions, hints or tips you'd like me to see. I won't publish everything, but I will assume anything you say is ok to share unless you tell me otherwise or it's obviously just for me. Anway, on with the show.
Kickstarter had a good week
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/24-hours [via Dan Hon]
Path had a bad week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/feb/09/path-privacy-apps
Julia Frankenstein on GPS and mental maps.
(I don't think I've been practicing my mental navigation enough. My sense of direction and location is almost non-existent.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/is-gps-all-in-our-head.html
CNN Money: 'Barry Minkow, All-American con man'
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/05/barry-minkow-con-man/ [a good long read via Bobbie Johnson's very fine @ifyouonly project. Sign up for his weekly digest of things worth reading at http://tinyletter.com/ifyouonly]
Video: 'Faceture' by Phil Cuttance
http://vimeo.com/35912908 [via @dominicwilcox]
Two of my favourite podcasts combined in an unexpected way recently. The
softly-spoken distinctive-voiced genius that is Ira Glass
(http://www.thisamericanlife.org/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY) appeared as a guest on Dan
Savage's Savage Love sex advice podcast. In case you've somehow missed
him until now, Dan Savage is the guy behind the It Gets Better project
(http://www.itgetsbetter.org) and also the reason 'Santorum' has an
additional meaning, http://spreadingsantorum.com/). If you've ever
wanted to hear Ira Glass utter the phrase "take his cock out of your mouth", now is your chance.
http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLovePodcast/archives/2012/01/31/savage-love-episode-276
That's it for this week. Have a great weekend. Next week is a big one for me. I'll explain more on Tuesday.
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
Happy Friday everyone, and a warm welcome to all the new subscribers. There are an eye-watering 217 of you now. Thank you for letting me in to your eyes. I hope I'll continue to be interesting. If you've ever had enough, the unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email. I'd also love to hear from you, especially if you notice something interesting that you've enjoyed and would like me to share in a future Roo's Letter. Just reply to this email with any links, comments, questions, hints or tips you'd like me to see. I won't publish everything, but I will assume anything you say is ok to share unless you tell me otherwise or it's obviously just for me. Anway, on with the show.
Kickstarter had a good week
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/24-hours [via Dan Hon]
Path had a bad week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/feb/09/path-privacy-apps
Julia Frankenstein on GPS and mental maps.
(I don't think I've been practicing my mental navigation enough. My sense of direction and location is almost non-existent.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/is-gps-all-in-our-head.html
CNN Money: 'Barry Minkow, All-American con man'
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/05/barry-minkow-con-man/ [a good long read via Bobbie Johnson's very fine @ifyouonly project. Sign up for his weekly digest of things worth reading at http://tinyletter.com/ifyouonly]
Video: 'Faceture' by Phil Cuttance
http://vimeo.com/35912908 [via @dominicwilcox]
Two of my favourite podcasts combined in an unexpected way recently. The
softly-spoken distinctive-voiced genius that is Ira Glass
(http://www.thisamericanlife.org/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY) appeared as a guest on Dan
Savage's Savage Love sex advice podcast. In case you've somehow missed
him until now, Dan Savage is the guy behind the It Gets Better project
(http://www.itgetsbetter.org) and also the reason 'Santorum' has an
additional meaning, http://spreadingsantorum.com/). If you've ever
wanted to hear Ira Glass utter the phrase "take his cock out of your mouth", now is your chance.
http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLovePodcast/archives/2012/01/31/savage-love-episode-276
That's it for this week. Have a great weekend. Next week is a big one for me. I'll explain more on Tuesday.
Yours sincerely
Roo
Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds
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