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amusing example of sensor driven control. the hat senses facial muscle position, if the smile falls, then a spike is pushed into the back of the head until the smile returns. When worn for a period of time it will train smiling as a default response - Gavin Bell

Fascinating article on how the human body is designed for long distance running. Sweat glands, 20 mile glycogen store in muscles and lack of hair all contribute to good running form, as well as biomechanical details like short toes compared to animals - Gavin Bell

The data.gov.uk postcode paper on Radio4's PM programme, as part of an article on newspaperclub from 21'35" - Gavin Bell

Beautiful and cool handmade dress based on the game Tetris from the lovely Erin McKean - Gavin Bell

Beautiful and cool handmade dress based on the game Tetris from the lovely Erin McKean - Gavin Bell

interesting new electronic musical instrument. It has a slider control, buttons which respect pressure and a breath pipe, much cheaper at 350 pounds than the bigger Alpha version. It'll link directly to your mac too. - Gavin Bell

Great guide to what to buy to get started in podcasting - Gavin Bell

These photographs of albatross chicks come from Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents collecting what seems like food to them. - Gavin Bell

"The fact that our hobbies are social again is great. Flickr builds social capital, Twitter builds social capital. The fact that are hobbies are social again is important. Social means showing off and sharing, and politeness and play, yes. But social also means healthier, wealthier and happier, and that’s a big, big deal. I believe that’s why social matters. The bit of social I particularly care about is small groups, and my close friends and family, and I believe we’re still not designing well there. But that’s a story for another day." Great article, small group and semi-private social is an area that fascinates me - Gavin Bell

This is so going up in our house - Gavin Bell

fab looking bike for a 3 year old. - Gavin Bell

A thread listing currently available amplifiers with a built in DAC and some active speakers with the same. Plus finally some preamps and dacs for use with active speakers without a dac. Hardware to make iTunes etc sound good. - Gavin Bell

CO2 impact tracking for online advertising campaigns - Gavin Bell

Long and detailed review of current portable headphone amplifiers and dacs for connecting your iPod or MacBook etc to - Gavin Bell

Highly rated portable DAC and headphone amplifier, ships from china - Gavin Bell

According to a recent comment, O'Reilly's Safari Online works via their mobile interface on the Kindle. Really want a Kindle now. - Gavin Bell

Have fallen a bit in love with this bear, well his bronze brother, who is in the cafe at Kings Place, on display from the adjoining Pangolin gallery. 7 foot high and just lovely. - Gavin Bell

Beautifully detailed suits of armour for cats and mice - Gavin Bell

Russell Davies on the immediacy of blogging, vs writing for a weekly magazine (Campaign) then moving to a monthly one (Wired). I feel exactly the same about my book, it will be at least three months to publication from edit and has taken me over a year - Gavin Bell

memory evoking set of pictures, made me want to dig out the DVD and re-watch it. - Gavin Bell

I used to enjoy reading Carmacks game design notes years ago, so these porting notes of Wolfenstein to the iPhone were fun to read. The iPhone really is a nice platform for all sorts of things. - Gavin Bell

Free iPhone programming course from Stanford University, available over iTunes, fantastic idea. - Gavin Bell

Very useful release note history compiled by Jay Allen for Movable Type, will hopefully be properly maintained now. - Gavin Bell

Now seeing lego from the point of view of a parent and hoping my children can get past duplo soon - Gavin Bell

Really useful advice - Gavin Bell

command line twitter - Gavin Bell

excellent mail order flower company, 60 or 100 daffodils - Gavin Bell

Well put together approach to building an API for content and well explained documentation, good stuff - Gavin Bell

All the tile sets, bar green park for the victoria line, which turned 40 this week - Gavin Bell

this looks like a promising approach to climate change, but lacks the vested interests of oil companies etc, hopefully that will matter less than I think - Gavin Bell

"We already changed the name of the school from Abraham Lincoln High to Nyarlathotep Academy," Perry added. "What more does he want?" - Gavin Bell