This week on Spark - Adventures in computational humour. Inside the culture and ritual of 'unboxing'. We find out if lack of eye contact explains rude behaviour online. And what if you could get an email or a text message...from your washing machine?

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Raspberry Pi

• Rob Bishop
• Raspberry Pi
• Video of Rob and Nora
• MIT's Scratch program for kids

Unboxing for the Holidays

• Matthew Braga
• Matthew talked to Lewis Hilsenteger of the YouTube channel Unbox Therapy
• Matthew also talked to Sherry Turkle
• Spark interview with Sherry Turkle from April 2011

The Easy Internet of Things

• David Carr
• Twine

Eye Contact and Aggression

• Elah Feder
• Elah's I Like You Podcast she does with another Spark contributor, JP Davidson
• Elah mentioned Tammy, from cooking YouTube channel Yoyomax12
• Dr. Lapidot-Lefler's research: Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition

Computational Humour

• Chris Venour