I crossed a river, and finally found a video that changes.

• I don't want to spoil this video for you, so deliberately presented without context: Larry Griswold on the Frank Sinatra Show in 1951. These days it's a classic routine, but I'm pretty sure he was the first; and going by the audience reactions, I don't think this has performance ever been beaten.
   
• A British newsreel from 1963 about brand new, modern, high-tech offices, with pneumatic tubes, new-fangled computers, and a swimming pool, shooting range and hair salon. Any Google employees reading will no doubt find some comparisons to their Googleplex: why leave when all the facilities you need are right there?
   
• After I made "this video has X views", I've been hoping that someone would make a video where the content, not the title, updates. It's finally happened! I got an email from a YouTuber going by "flatypus", who's made a video that changes every day to have the current date in it. There are all sorts of approaches for this technique, for fun or evil: a video that changes on weekends; a video that subtly changes over time to confuse people; a video that pretends to predict the future. Good luck.

• America is already building new cities: they're just very different from what most people would expect. If you like my YouTube videos, then I strongly suspect this article is exactly the sort of thing you're interested in.
   
• A fascinating piece on ventilation for Covid, and whether we need to rethink ventilation on a massive scale.
   
• Malware was found preinstalled on old-style, push-button mobile phones. Put your SIM card in, and it'd quietly start texting premium-rate numbers in the background.
   
• And finally, Microsoft invented Google Earth in the 90s and then totally blew it.

And some final words: thanks to everyone who watched the first video over on the second channel. The reactions have been really kind! There'll be another video over there on Saturday, if all goes well.

All the best, and I'll see you on the internet.

— Tom