Saturday's snow was quickly washed away by the rain in Southampton, so I'm quite jealous of anyone who has made a snowman this year. Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Here's what's been catching my eye.


I bought some ?_? look of disapproval glasses from Etsy.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/79821028/look-of-disapproval-glasses
They took a while to cross the atlantic, but I'm delighted with them.
instagr.am/p/noRyW/
FYI, if that ? symbol doesn't show up nicely for you, I fixed it on my Mac by installing this font
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/

In case you missed this on Friday: a rap battle between Blizzard (a student) and a teacher (that's a teacher, not his teacher), Mark Grist.
"I hope you drop dead. If I punch you in the face, who are you going to call? Ofsted?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4wEewrQdU&t=1m6s

When you tie your shoes, are you using the strong form or the weak form of the knot? (And I don't mean a double-knot, I mean making a square knot rather than a granny knot). Terry Moore, on stage at TED 2005, will teach you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAFcV7zuUDA

"...generally speaking, the gravity in each Mario game, as game hardware has increased, is getting closer to the true value of gravity on earth of 9.8 m/s2"
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/mariogravity.shtml [via @direthoughts]

Aver�a, 'the Average Font'
http://iotic.com/averia/

This is a nice toy.
http://kaleidolism.com/

The new Reuters 'social pulse' page could be interesting. It's currently pretty awful. (50 CEOs with the highest Klout scores. Sigh.) Who knows, maybe it will get better though.
http://www.reuters.com/social

ORGCon 2012, Saturday 24 March, London, members �12.50, non-members �26
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgcon-2012


Marketing corner *

Have you seen the 'success kid' online? (background on the meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-hate-sandcastles-success-kid, lots more examples: http://www.quickmeme.com/Success-Kid/). The image has been available through Getty for some time (http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/little-boy-at-the-beach-eating-sand-royalty-free-image/113865065, a snip at �300 for the high res version), which allowed them to do this poster.
http://imgur.com/lEPs0

Woody Harrelson('s people), invites Reddit to AMA ('ask me anything'). Woefully misunderstanding the concept of 'anything', he focused a little too much on his new movie.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/
Typical comment (www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/c3nlrtj) "Please inform the rest of Hollywood that Reddit is not a publicity outlet and that Redditors don't tolerate this kind of crap."
Or, if you prefer, it was dissected by the New York Observer here
http://www.observer.com/2012/02/woody-harrelson-and-the-no-good-very-bad-reddit-ama/

'What Britain Loves' is the first T-Mobile ad from Saatchi & Saatchi that I don't actively hate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-EvvfMXEwU
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OK Go make good music videos. Their lastest, for Chevrolet, was shown during (well, just before) the Super Bowl this year.
"over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c

* N.B. marketing corner will definitely nor be a regular feature of Roo's Letter.


Yours sincerely
Roo