Earthquakes! innuendos! and a radioactive dryer.

• Ann Reardon, who I've linked to before and who does great videos experimenting with and debunking viral food studies, breaks down the story a million-dollar lie: Betty Crocker never existed.
   
• Game Changer, which is usually exclusive to streaming service Dropout, continues to be one of the best formats I've seen. It somehow successfully manages to disguise improv comedy in the form of an ever-changing game show, with a rotating cast, and it's consistently funny. Occasionally they'll put a full episode up on YouTube so — with the caveat that this is entirely made of very adult references and definitely isn't for kids — please enjoy "Like My Coffee", a quickfire innuendo-off that kept me giggling throughout.
   
• Why does rice sink ships? Casual Navigation is a pleasant animated channel that explains, well, ship navigation. Casually. And this is a pretty good place to start with them.
   
• If you'd like to see a dumptruck, accidentally been left in the "up" position, crash through and take down high voltage train lines: you're in luck! But perhaps the most surprising thing about that is the only way C2C Rail could find to get the accident video off their surveillance system was for someone to point their cell phone at the screen.
   
• How TV stations joined together for Eurovision: a synchronised view of half a dozen European networks, who were all meant to link together at the same time. And they almost managed it. (Stick around to the end to see how some of them blanked-out the ads.)

• I don't know why the folks in charge of the internet decided that it was a good idea to approve a ".zip" TLD. No-one needed it. It's a really bad idea. But now you can send people to attachment.zip instead of actually attaching a file, should you want to. (Hopefully that redirect hasn't been changed since I wrote this newsletter...)
   
• Artists must be allowed to make bad work. As YouTube becomes more and more professional, and as trying something new and failing gets rephrased to "falling off", this seemed relevant.
   
• How to survive a car crash in 10 easy steps is a story that's worth reading, from a journalist who isn't talking about surviving the crash itself — but instead, surviving the traumatic brain injury that she suffered during it. It's an emotive, affecting piece of writing.
   
• "Why is my dryer radioactive?" A great question, well answered.

That's it for this week: I'm in a massive rush now, trying to prepare and plan a lot of different things. So I'll leave you with one "and finally" link: Tradle!

All the best,

— Tom