Things that I have seen and like from the past few days.

- A fun project involving cameras left on park benches in New York. Love the random selection of people and imagery that spontaneously erupt from simple ideas like this.

- This company called botanicalls sell little arduino based sets which can sense the water content of the soil supporting your plant and send messages to twitter accordingly. A nice little idea, but not sure if I’d pay the $99 for a single kit at this moment in time. I’ve been getting more into Twitter recently after many months of not joining/twittering. There now seem to be more people ‘on it’ that I am genuinely interested in hearing about/telling things to; so I’m finding it an amusing past-time.

- These World War II aviation photographs are pretty awesome. I believe that my grandfather worked on this sort of thing during the war so I may see if I can find some of his shots and post them online.

-  I can see myself getting a Kindle or similar device in the next few years, there is so much great free literature online, and being able to get a book as easily as a music download would be brilliant. This would be a bonus feature.

- Other bits and bobs; a super-fine way to display photographs, a 224-word pallindrome from Demetri Martin, and a nice collection of the characters found on subway/underground trains.

- Videos; Johnny Flynn sings and wonders the streets of Buenos Aires in another great video from La Blogotheque, a clever advert from Loewe, flippin’ awesome puppetry creates this very impressive dinosaur (though I think the desaturated video adds to the authentic appearance), and finally, Louis CK tells it like it is.

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