Roo's Letter

105: Single brick

December 7, 2012

Hello. BBC Radiophonic Workshop natively in browsers using the new Web Audio API http://webaudio.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/ring-modulator/#demo Ambient sounds to...

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104: Slowed down

November 30, 2012

Hello. Masterchef without the cooking “Monica Galetti, making strange faces in cutaway shots” - from the brilliant Meg Pickard...

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103: Pop up

November 23, 2012

Hello. Random Shopper "buys me things completely at random" (via @jack_franklin) http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/ Bamboo Deminer "every destroyed land mine...

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102: Genuinely digital

November 16, 2012

Hello. George Entwistle, speech to BBC staff, 18th September 2012 “…the key task is to understand the stage we’ve reached in the ongoing digital revolution …...

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101: Increasingly relativistic

November 9, 2012

Hello. Infinite Gangnam Style Ok, this is honestly the last Gangnam Style link I’ll post here. http://static.echonest.com/InfiniteGangnamStyle/ Game: a...

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100: So far

November 2, 2012

Hello.I've gone back through the archives and selected the best link from each of the 99 letters so far. Enjoy.1. Jonathan Coulton - Make good stuff"Make...

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99: Where's Boris?

October 26, 2012

Hello.Shift Run Stop episode 64 In which I read some poetry I wrote when I was 15. Be afraid. http://shiftrunstop.co.uk/2012/10/25/episode-64-leila-and-roo/...

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98: Getting silly

October 19, 2012

Hello. I'm getting excited about letter #100, which is going to be a bit different. For now, here's another weekly roundup of links to things you might like....

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97: Doing well

October 12, 2012

Hello. Standup: Tig Notaro Live ($5) “Tig, by the way, has since undergone a double mastectomy. She is doing well. Her doctors say her chances of survival...

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96: Breathing tube

October 5, 2012

Hello. A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica“I assure you, sir, it’s not a scam. You can talk to my manager. I’m calling you from...

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95: Buffalo buffalo

September 28, 2012

Hello. Gangham StyleThis video has already had over 300 million views on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 Dissected:...

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94: New life

September 21, 2012

Hello. Long term readers might remember a while ago I linked to a Kickstarter page [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readmatter/matter] to fund Bobbie...

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93: Noticeably better

September 14, 2012

Hello. Kotaku: How Video Game Fans Mourn the Death of One of their Own “The best and most generous parts of a community’s nature often show when tragedy...

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92: The downside

September 7, 2012

Hello. Hide&Seek Weekender14th, 15th and 16th of September, Southbank Centre, London http://weekender.hideandseek.net Why Jason Bourne is our generation’s...

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91: So angry

August 31, 2012

Hello. James Thomas (@thomasj) asked “could you produce a graph of how many people are out of the office for each newsletter?” Yes James. Yes, I could. Here...

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90: Without purpose

August 24, 2012

Hello.NYT: It’s not about Assange http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/opinion/why-correa-lets-assange-stay-in-ecuador-embassy.html Here’s what David Allen...

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89: From scratch

August 17, 2012

Hello. Double Robotics “the simplest, most elegant way to be somewhere else in the world without flying there” http://www.doublerobotics.com/ Mars Panorama -...

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88: Rocker-bogie suspension

August 10, 2012

Hello. This is London now http://london-now.jit.su/ NewStatesman: How Mo Farah rejected the “plastic Brit” charge “Look, mate, this is my country”...

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87: Pretty incredible

August 3, 2012

Hello. Devin LeBlanc: Smackdown on the shore (I bought a radio controlled helicopter this week. I’m not very good (and it’s pretty basic 3 channel coaxial...

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86: Olympic vermin

July 27, 2012

Hello. The Reformation in Lego (via @lexij) http://www.flickr.com/photos/wunztwice/sets/72157622718234028/ Cloud Atlas movie trailer...

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