Teatube Test Tube Tea Infuser. Now that’s a tongue twister!

I’ve been wanting to get a tea infuser for a while now and this test tube one might be the perfect geeky one!

You can get it for only $11.99 on ThinkGeek.

• Distance to Mars: if the Earth were 100 pixels wide…
• The Economics of a Hit TV Show: A good analysis and history of the economics of cable TV shows, like Breaking Bad.
• Deliberate Git: How to write and organize your Git commits better.
• The Very Hungry Zombie: I so want this book:

• Why does HTML think ‘chucknorris’ is a color? I’m a bit disappointed that ‘missgeeky’ turns out blue.
  
• I Don’t Think You’re Ready For This, Jelly: Interesting article about experimenting with jellyfish in space
• Analyzing the Armor of Margaery Tyrell: I love Margaery’s costumes in Game of Thrones and this essay on them show just how much detail goes into designing them.
• What Each Country Leads The World In?: Cool infographic:

• Out of Skin: A creepy comic by Emily Carroll
• The Pixar Story: What if every Pixar movie was connected and part of the same universe?
• Forms in Nature: Cool lighting designs in the shape of trees.
• Disney Character Magazine Covers: What if Disney characters got their own magazine covers?

This came out a while back and chances are most of you have seen it, but I was reminded of it again at last Thursday’s Geeky Science and realized I hadn’t actually blogged about it at the time. So good:

Eek, I’m in a video:

I’m gutted I can’t make it to the Ladies Who Code conference, but it looks like a lot of fun! If you’re interested, there are still tickets available.

This has been going around the past week, so chances are you might have seen it already, but I just love Lindsey Stirling’s violin remixes:

It’s alive, it’s alive…

For the past 5 months, I’ve been working on FutureLearn, a massive online open course system backed by the Open University, and on Wednesday it went live. Registered users will be able to signup for courses from a wide range of topics, like Begin Programming and The Secret Power of Brands, with the first courses running in October. Here’s a short intro video:

The past week has been hectic, awesome, fun and exciting. I got to go to the press event on Wednesday morning and it’s been cool to see the responses of everyone and the news coverage it has generated. FutureLearn has gotten pieces on the BBC, the Telegraph, Times Higher Education, Techcrunch and more. This is the first time a project I’ve worked on has had this amount of coverage, but it’s been so much fun to work on it all.

For the rest of Wednesday we were in standby mode for most of the day, just in case anything went haywire, but it was also a day of celebrating with pub lunch, champagne and cupcakes:

You can sign up at FutureLearn.com. Let me know in the comments below if you’ve enrolled on any of the courses; I’m excited to see what you all think of it!

From the future with love from Precinct 114 on Vimeo.