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Sleeveface at ROFLCon 2010

I’m going to be at ROFLCon this April, a conference on internet culture and ideas. I’ll be talking about Sleeveface and meeting other attendees who do fun things on the web.
The venue is MIT in Boston, USA where a few notable tech things were born (like one of my favourites – the free software movement).

Sleeveface book out now in German edition

Entschuldigung! Germany now has its own edition of the Sleeveface book. The book is out now through the Cadeau imprint of German publisher Hoffmann und Campe.
You can get more info on the German edition at the main Sleeveface site. The original version of the book is also out now.
Still on the web: my original post [...]

Sleeveface The Book

Sleeveface the book is out now!
Sleeveface has a dedicated blog of its own, so I’ll try not to duplicate too much here. It also has more info about the book.
At the moment we are doing a real mixed bag of press and radio interviews. Sunday Times magazine carried a feature recently, this afternoon I’ve just [...]

Trainspotting and the Cognitive Surplus

Here’s a video showing giant dominoes assembled from smaller dominoes. It’s pretty satisfying to watch them topple. This must have taken TIME.

There are probably thousands of videos like this. If you prefer, you can have Japanese people making mechanical versions of Super Mario. Or maybe BristleBots.
All around the web people are doing fun stuff, posting [...]