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125: Direct fire

May 17, 2013

Hello. Let's start with some correspondence from the lovely correspondents. Olivier Legris writes: “Regarding the ”special screening“, there is one in Paris...

124: Information display

May 12, 2013

Hello. You know how the sing-a-long-a-… format works? Special cinema screenings of ‘Grease’ (or ‘Mama Mia’ or ‘Sound of Music’ or similar) in which the...

123: Outlandish costume

May 3, 2013

Hello. Making Mordor’s Economy Work “What a mess an orc would have made of crops we can only imagine...” http://www.centives.net/S/2013/making-mordors-...

122: Fire special

April 28, 2013

Hello. A delayed Roo’s Letter this week but it’s a fire special to make up for it. We’re getting a Clearview Pioneer 400 log burning stove installed, just...

121: Limitless quantities

April 19, 2013

Hello. Jon Ronson On… “Each week in a series of interviews, short location reports, scripted monologues, phone calls etc, Jon Ronson delves into a world of...

120: Dull witch

April 12, 2013

Hello. Hyperlapse “experiment for creating interactive Google Street View hyper-lapse animations” https://vimeo.com/63653873 http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/ How...

119: Jet propulsion

April 5, 2013

Hello. NASA remotely controls Athlete rover with Leap Motion “In an unexpected demonstration at the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,...

118: Next year

March 22, 2013

Hello. “Never add a possessive or plural ‘s’ (or hyphen) to ‘LEGO’ & always add a descriptive noun (eg LEGO bricks)”...

117: Death ray

March 15, 2013

Hello. The Up-goer Five Text Editor Can you explain a hard idea using only the ten hundred most used words? (see also http://xkcd.com/1133/ which inspired...

116: Subtle changes

March 8, 2013

Hello. Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World “to reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to...

115: Terra Tubes

March 1, 2013

Hello. Radiolab: Speedy Beets “Late in life, Beethoven got his hands on a metronome, went back into his symphonies, and marked them with tempos that are...

114: Bee rumble

February 22, 2013

Hello. Elephants have a special ‘bee rumble’ they use to warn each other about bees. “elephants not only flee from the buzzing sound but make a unique...

113: Spray on

February 15, 2013

Hello. Robert Krulwich - Ultra Ever Dry “a nano-tech coating you can spray on any number of different surfaces … It’s superhydrophobic (it repels water) and...

112: Cheap toy

February 8, 2013

Hello.Third World Problems “not every aspect of the life of those who are terribly poor is terrible poverty” http://storify.com/flashboy/third-world-problems...

111: Interesting things

February 1, 2013

Hello.Jargone A simple bookmarklet that highlights jargon words on any page (I made this) http://github.com/rooreynolds/jargone Tweetping Twitter activity in...

110: Major scale

January 25, 2013

Hello. Video: Memorex “Memorex is a 50 minute VJ odyssey, a tribute to an entire generation who grew up with only a TV and a VCR for a babysitter.”...

109: Unclaimed land

January 18, 2013

Hello. Panasonic Toughpad press conference “A second man takes the stage. His name is Jan something, Head of something at Panasonic. His presentation uses...

108: Unexpected journey

January 11, 2013

Hello, and happy new year. The Onion: Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack “The answer is fewer gorillas”...

107: Less relevant

December 21, 2012

Hello. I’m going quiet for a couple of weeks after this. Hope you have a lovely Christmas. Radio Roundabout - 3-5pm today http://www.radioroundabout.com/ iOS...

106: Pencil Sharpening

December 14, 2012

Hello. Winter is coming. The nights are getting longer and the weather is getting colder. As usual, I’ve been sitting on the edge of the Internet fishing for...