I looked for an expensive coin, and finally.
17th January 2022
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Hello!
Last week's video was a departure from normal, and it also performed extremely well — so naturally, I'm ignoring all that, and returning to a walk down a street. There's a £100,000 coin buried under this London building.
Last week's video was a departure from normal, and it also performed extremely well — so naturally, I'm ignoring all that, and returning to a walk down a street. There's a £100,000 coin buried under this London building.
In the world of video this week, I've found:
- An in-depth, behind-the-scenes tour of a gondola ropeway in Switzerland. If you say my ropeway video and thought "I'd like that, but twenty minutes longer and describing all the equipment in detail", then this is for you.
- Milk Crate is an incredibly detailed stop-motion animation that some people are finding deeply satisfying, and I found somehow unsettling. The description claims there's no CG used, and while I find that difficult to believe, it's still a heck of an achievement.
- And if you want to see a TV show absolutely fall apart, then the UK's Channel 4 have uploaded a disastrous-but-brilliant full episode of I Literally Just Told You. (Note: extremely strong language.) For the first fifteen minutes or so, you'll think "this is an okay-ish quiz with a gimmick". Then it all slowly starts falling apart, and it becomes a masterclass in how a competent host can still hold a show together and make it funny. That said, I do feel for the contestants here: at what point does laughter stop being good-natured, and start being mean? What if they didn't feel like they were in on the gag? How much of a duty of care does the show have? I feel like this ends up on the right side of the line, but others might disagree.
Other interesting links I've found this week:
- Cities are putting "scan to pay" QR code stickers on parking meters. Criminals are adding their own phishing-site stickers on top.
- "Charts that look like data errors" is a thread of the last two years.
- Gerrymandering minigolf is both a good explainer and a decent little minigolf web-toy as well: this is a really nice example of the intersection between journalism and web technology.
- A late entry into the Wordle-variant contest: Absurdle is a version of Wordle that fights back, changing the word it's thinking of every guess until you finally pin it down. There's a full explanation here.
- And finally, "and finally".
— Tom
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