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Take-Back-Toe | Cheapass Games - http://www.cheapass.com/freegam...
"Take-Back-Toe" is the winner of Daniel Solis's "Thousand Year Game Design Challenge", which you can play with any objects you have to hand. The rules are CC by-nc-nd licensed. (via The Little Metal Dog Show) - Mark Longair
The Death and Return of Superman - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The Death and Return of Superman - YouTube
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A nice rant about the Death and Return of Superman (via @jwz) - Mark Longair
iPad Board Games - http://ipadboardgames.org/
*This* is why it's so tempting to break my Apply boycott and get an iPad, even though they've (a) broken Linux interoperability and (b) stopped support for every previous bit of their hardware I've bought... - Mark Longair
The tweelight of the gods « 33revolutionsperminute's Blog - http://33revolutionsperminute....
A nice article about brands trying to treat you like a child - Mark Longair
Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut - YouTube
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This is really rather wonderful. "Star Wars Uncut" was a project to remake "A New Hope", but with a different fan providing their own version of each 15 seconds. The results are hilarious, unhinged and somehow profound... - Mark Longair
Some personal news: we'll be returning to the UK at the end of March (hoping to live in London) and I'll be working for @mysociety :)
Many congratulations to my awesome sister, Sarah, who submitted her PhD thesis today: just a staggering amount of excellent work...
blog « amanda palmer [The Wedding Blog] - http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post...
Amanda Palmer on getting married - Mark Longair
What's that coming over the hill? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
What's that coming over the hill?
Movies From An Alternate Universe on the Behance Network - http://www.behance.net/gallery...
Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/34949864
What you get if you repeatedly use Google's "search by image" feature, each time restarting with the top result that hasn't appeared before (via @jwz) - Mark Longair
Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya - http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012...
"Since October, Google’s GKBO appears to have been systematically accessing Mocality’s database and attempting to sell their competing product to our business owners. They have been telling untruths about their relationship with us, and about our business practices, in order to do so. As of January 11th, nearly 30% of our database has apparently been contacted." - Mark Longair
Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool - http://scaleofuniverse.com/
(via @hatfinch) - Mark Longair
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems - http://www.therestartpage.com/
Silly, but with great attention to detail - Mark Longair
Sunrise over the Alps from the air - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Sunrise over the Alps from the air
The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit | Magazine - http://www.wired.com/magazin...
Good grief: Amazon *in the UK* is encouraging me to "Shop Kindle Books". It's even worse than people "protesting the cuts".
mjg59 | TVs are all awful - http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8705...
Matthew Garret on horrible issues with EDID an HD televisions - Mark Longair
A Studied Approach at WiFi – Part 2 - Server Fault Blog - http://blog.serverfault.com/2012...
Some nice spectrograms of the 2.4GHz spectrum in various locations and with various devices present (via @codinghorror) - Mark Longair
Star Trek: The Next Generation - http://longair.net/blog...
Ned Batchelder: Happy and quiet - http://nedbatchelder.com/blog...
The 2011 “Questions to Which the Answer is No” Awards | John Rentoul | Independent Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - Blogs - http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011...
Photos of an Empty London on Christmas Morning - http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog...
(via @chrisdonia) - Mark Longair
We're learning to learn to play Twilight Struggle (Xmas present from Jenny) with the help of IKEA Glühwein - might not finish before 2012 :)
1934 article predicting the internet and mobile phones - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
1934 article predicting the internet and mobile phones
It turns out I'll have a couple of hours free in Berlin this afternoon - any suggestions for what I should see / do would be very welcome
I don't know of a better album than Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works 85–92" for maintaining concentration at noisy hackathons - so good
We're on the sleeper train from Zürich to Dresden for a @FijiSc hackathon - easily the nicest sleeper I've been on :)
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