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Naughty or Nice, the aftermath

Gav has documented some of the verdicts that santa has brought onto naughty and nice members of the poke office. Including this very strange portrait of me.

You are so very nice, and so very pretty. You win a free photshop beauty portrait. Go and sit for your portrait with Jason. - Santa

Uncanny picture of me

I feel a little weird every time I see it. Thanks Jason and Will!

Check out the rest of them at Death to the Flippers.

Have you been Naughty or Nice?

It has now turned into a tradition that Stuff club makes some sort of christmas project. Last year we made Formula wonderland a snowy scalextric fairy land. This year, we built a giant "Santa lap" that you sit in and you get told whether you've been Naughty or Nice. The whole thing gets recorded and posted naughtyornice.tumblr.com.

naughty or nice collage

Other makers involved were Gavin and Jason Fox, Badger, Martin Rose and Tracy Tsang.

Badger on Santas lap

Photo by katie's flickr

NASA image of the day for your OSX Desktop

A few weeks ago @screechin showed me some photos from NASAs Image of the day gallery. There's some stunning photography in that gallery, so I figured they'd looks nice as a desktop background.

Here's a simple python script that pulls down the latest image and puts it on your osx desktop.

Atlantis NASA

NASA shuttle

Planes

NASA Ice from above

We're in the december 2009 issue of Wired UK!

Bakertweet was featured in Wired's guide to the UK Twitterati

WiredUK Twitterati

Having been one of my favorite magazines for a long time, it's so much fun to be in it! Here's the whole Twitterati line up.

Girl, most associated with Trouble

Brushing up on natural language processing (NLTK) and saw this amusing example from the Brown Corpus.

Seems like Trouble is for a Girl what Butter is for Bread.

girl trouble

Going Just Awesome

My desk buddy Jamie had an idea to create a wordle out of your twitter stream. I know I'm late to the game with this one but I liked the outcome of mine. Going Just Awesome.

Wordle