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145: Sad music

November 22, 2013

Hello again. Microwave cooking set to sad music (via B3ta. This actually made me quite hungry) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTp1iWAHHko Spruce Stoves (via...

144: Funeral selfie

November 1, 2013

Hello. Funeral selfie collection http://selfiesatfunerals.tumblr.com A work one: here’s Mike Bracken talking at Code for America about redesigning government...

143: New code

October 25, 2013

Hello. Sad Etsy Boyfriends http://sadetsyboyfriends.tumblr.com/ Giles Turnbull: My blue room “The Blue Room is decorated like British aunts in the 1980s used...

142: Alan Yentob

October 11, 2013

Hello. Small Cubes that self-assemble via Ben Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs The Fox newsroom has gone a bit weird...

141: Independently chosen

October 4, 2013

Hello. The story behind @horse_ebooks http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/horse-ebooks-and-pronunciation-book-...

140: Intellectually unappealing

September 27, 2013

Hello. The IT Crowd is coming back for a final episode, tonight http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd Molly Crabapple: Passing time in Gitmo...

139: Most impressive

September 13, 2013

Hello. “Instead of trying to get Matthew Green’s blog off their servers, the deans should be trying to get more faculty into blogging and into the public...

138: Appropriately adopted

September 6, 2013

Hello. James Burke predicted the future in 1973. Now he does it again (Audio, 13 minutes, via the brilliant gorjuss mailing...

137: Not laced

August 30, 2013

Hello. First of all, thanks to everyone who pointed out that the National Report piece on Arizona straight-to-gay conversion was not what it may have seemed....

136: Coffee shops

August 23, 2013

Hello. They’re using it at coffee shops! (via @tomcoates) http://usingitatcoffeeshops.tumblr.com Wringing out a wet towel in orbit...

135: Brazen attempt

August 16, 2013

Hello. Sega games online http://www.ssega.com Martin Belam: Dear Mothercare, our daughters can aspire to more than this...

134: Closed room

August 2, 2013

Hello. Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Stevie Wonder (You wouldn’t get this sort of thing on Stars in Their Eyes)...

133: Richard Madeley

July 26, 2013

Hello. Richard Madely and Susie Boniface have a plan to fix the internet (via @jack_franklin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tbt6lZTFc Richard Madeley (A...

132: Expensive notebooks

July 20, 2013

Hello. Lego Stilettos (via Anna Pendrich) http://fashionablygeek.com/shoes/lego-stilettos/ Legoleg (via Ben Jackson)...

131: No time

June 28, 2013

Hello. The Beaver Trilogy (definitely not what you probably think) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQBtfy8lA8 The quickening pace of modern life “…and if...

130: Casual objectification

June 21, 2013

Hello. Why Spiderman Is Such A Good Dancer “...auditory rhythms can drive visual rhythm perception, especially when the visual stimuli are continuous,...

129: Nothing wrong

June 16, 2013

Hello. Do you want to be in the IT Crowd Special? “…expect very little remuneration, possibly (definitely) even as little as none”...

128: Twin Peaks

June 8, 2013

Hello. Nukemap (“It has never been easier to put a 50Mt H-bomb on the Eiffel Tower”) http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ 3D latte art (via @aleksk)...

127: Wood special

June 1, 2013

Hello.In celebration of our new log burning stove being installed this week (not by me, I hasten to add. By professionals who know how to do these things...

126: The nail

May 24, 2013

Hello. It’s not about the nail ("and all my sweaters are snagged")https://vimeo.com/66753575 Shift Run Stop episode 67 (We had a lot of fun making this)...