Five awesome typewriter things

It had been a LOT of years since I last saw a manual typewriter, but recently I’ve been coming across a lot of really interesting uses, hacks and modifications. Here are my top five, in order of you’ve-probably-seen-this-already to get-ready-to-have-your-mind-blown.

BoardGameCamp 2010

Yesterday was the third GameCamp event, and the first ever BoardGameCamp. 150 people descended on Richmond to make, talk about and play board games. This is what happened.

Ed Sheeran interview and performance

I filmed this here interview and performance with the rather brilliant Ed Sheeran for my presenter pal Aissetou’s blog. He’s quite disgustingly talented, and a nice person too, so I expect massive global success before too long.

Your very own psychic octopus!

Just in case you want to predict something other than the football results, I’ve set up an interactive webcam feed to the psychic octopus and you can ask him whatever you want.