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September 24, 2012 It's been a long saga, for a small amount of currency. What did we learn? (1) Redundancy is good. (Redundancy is good.) If you're ever trying to do this, it's more successful to send many pennies to many people, rather than circu...
The idea The idea was to do part two of this task: "Walk a short route alone, then send a collaborator the last segment of your trip so that they can pick up where you left off. You may complete this in separate cities by using more generic instruct...
Sure, there's Naked Mail... but what about a Naked Mail Swap?? Everyone was assigned another player to secretly naked mail- here follows the aftermath: Ntan McNunofurbizwax: I received my naked mail. If I had to guess who sent it to me, I'd say...
A tea towel, a bike pump, a screwdriver, a bumbag, some pens, a cushion, a plastic bag, and a cup. Oh, and lots of sticky tape. We visited a friend of mine at University. He was still in bed with a hangover when we arrived. While we waited for him t...
A day off work, and I planned to do some tasking. I bought myself some acrylic paint and a pad of heavy paper, I borrowed some paintbrushes from a friend, and I made a sign advertising my wares. Then I sat in a pub, got very drunk, and painted non-r...
What Regret. I'm not talking about "I shouldn't have had that tenth beer" kind of regret, I'm talking about real regret. The kind of regret you feel when you've done something irreversible. You never talk about it, because you hope against hope tha...
The London Underground is awash with disused stations. Over three dozen of them - that's more closed stations than, say, Rio de Janeiro's entire underground network. A kind of creepy mythology hovers around these abandoned alveoli. If the Tube is ...
There are a small number of days of my life that I treasure as life-alteringly inspiring. Profoundly memorable. Full of love and friends and play and joy. Days like those come along maybe once a year if you're lucky and open-minded enough. You canno...
The UKØ gathering had to result in some serious tasking. MKØ, GYØ, LondonØ and formerly-BKØ-but-soon-to-be-GAØ all gathered on a sunny couple of days in August, and decided to complete the Overkill task. At first, we opted for an epic water f...
We've been fishing for talent over here, and it seems we've got a few people who think they have it! I'll let y'all decide whether or not they do for yourselves though! We'll be starting with Ben, singing My Hero by Foo Fighters! Next up, we have ...