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185: Male gamers

July 24, 2015

Hello. Maciej Cegłowski: Web Design - The First 100 Years “…technology hasn’t changed the world because we haven’t cared enough to change it. There’s a...

184: Leaving London

July 3, 2015

Hello. Sit down, shut up and pass it on medium.com/@fitzsimple/sit-down-shut-up-and-pass-it-on-b2b9979797d DeepDream Wow...

183: Lego rental

June 4, 2015

Hello. We Love Bricks - UK Lego rental club “A monthly subscription of £7.99 allows you to rent one set at a time, but as many sets as you want each month....

182: Loving something

April 17, 2015

Hello. News! Coates and Webb: Thington Congratulations, Tom and Matt! medium.com/welcome-to-thington/from-product-club-to-thington-inc-1e97846e48fe Giles...

181: Beautiful presentations

April 10, 2015

Hello Wardley value chain maps I invited Simon Wardley to teach a bunch of us about his mapping techniques. Here are the notes I took. slack-...

180: Already broken

March 28, 2015

Hello. I wrote something about hidden stress rooreynolds.com/2015/03/22/hidden-stress Kate Heddleston on Criticism and Ineffective Feedback (via @leisa)...

179: Gathering feedback

March 22, 2015

Hello Nemawashi (根回し) “Going around the roots”. Quietly laying the foundations for a change: talking, gathering feedback. wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemawashi Guido...

178: Well deserved

March 13, 2015

Hello. MySociety is looking for a new CEO Is this you? Or someone you know? Here’s how to apply mysocietyltd.theresumator.com/apply/90hjUD/Chief-Executive-...

177: Worst website

March 6, 2015

Hello. “The Awl receives the most pitches from the people who pitch the most—the same people who flood every open submissions box on the internet: dudes....

176: Foie gras

January 30, 2015

Hello. The Allusionist podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-allusionist/id957430475 Head shots of hand models http://www.oliandalex.com/head-...

175: Limbo time

January 9, 2015

Hello. New Clues “We, the People of the Internet, need to remember the glory of its revelation so that we reclaim it now in the name of what it truly is.”...

174: Increasingly harmful

December 12, 2014

Hello. Blockbox is a set of simple ideas and prompts to help you re-think your writing project gilest.org/blockbox.html World’s Simplest Electric Train...

173: More frequently

December 6, 2014

Hello. Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist “a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System” vimeo.com/m/108650530 The Bureau of Small...

172: Extremely detailed

November 14, 2014

Hello. It’s Like They Know Us (Parents will enjoy this, via @jabley) itsliketheyknowus.tumblr.com Stereographic Lampshades (via @marxculture)...

171: a threat

October 24, 2014

Hello. Neil Williams on sketchnoting "Sketchnoting made me feel like a participant not a spectator” medium.com/@neillyneil/confessions-of-a-first-time-...

170: Improve dramatically

September 26, 2014

Hello. Who is U2? whoisu2.com The Onion on GitHub (the satirical news organisation also has satirical open source repositories) github.com/theonion Game:...

169: Fitted tightly

September 5, 2014

Hello. YouTube: making a knife with only common tools - time-lapse youtube.com/watch?v=_5LXpgSzKyQ Finding School Shoes “in the last four shops I went into,...

168: Constantly attacked

August 22, 2014

Hello. Civilians in Abandoned McDonald’s Seize Control of Wandering Space Satellite betabeat.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds-seize-control-of-...

167: Predict anything

August 8, 2014

Hello. How much underwear to pack vs how many washes you’ll have to do on a trip (via tinyletter.com/puntofisso) medium.com/@sofauxboho/pack-like-a-...

166: Dating montage

August 1, 2014

Hello. I hope you're all enjoying life. I'm feeling a bit frazzled at the moment but things are, you know, good. I don’t usually link to work stuff but here...