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The Real Star Locations and Scale of Sci-Fi: This is a little bit corny but is also a really high-quality and well-made science video about how big space is, and it alerted me to some stuff that should be on my reading list.
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Kilauea - Diamond Collection: I've been deep in the Smooth Jazz Mines finding gems for my weather-channel vibes playlist lately & this record rules. You know you've found something good when the official album art on Spotify is a dusty scan of a CD case.
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Tom Walker has to flip a coin on stream until get gets 10 heads in a row and that number increases by one if he gets 10 tails: A hallmark in the "descent into madness" genre of video. Amazing moments throughout.
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The "Found Paper" subreddit: This is wonderful. So many of these are, like, heartfelt love notes accidentally left in a thrifted cookbook and then some of them are like a sticky note that says "Emma is a bitch" blowing around a parking lot. The world is so big and full of stories.
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Charles Bramesco on real movies that seem fake: I started reading this a while ago and lost the tab but pulled it up again because of some chatter about "Madame Web," which is a movie with the name and energy of an Obvious Plant gag.
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Joe Pera survives in the 18th Century: Just wonderful all around. Joe's unbreakably deadpan "ouch" when a wad of fiber combusts in his hands really got me.
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What If "Face to Face" by Daft Punk Used Newer Samples? Can't emphasize enough how big I was smiling listening to this. Absolutely crazy idea executed shockingly well.
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6: Via the Tom Scott newsletter, a story about some old-days Youtube web developers deciding to start the fire that would eventually kill Internet Explorer.
okay see you next time thanks!