Strange plumbing! peas! and CT scans!

• Workshop Nation builds an animatronic Alexa. This is such a lovely video: a slow-paced steady making-of that ends up with a strange, adorable, electronic creature.
   
• The story of skateboarding's most iconic camera (strong language) explained something to me: why the 90s and 2000s skateboarding videos had that "look". Yes, obviously it's better now that everyone has a 4K HDR slow-mo camera in their pocket... but a phone can't replicate the feeling of those old videos.
   
• And on that note: Storror are a UK parkour team that pull off some incredible stunts. I didn't expect to watch 40 minutes of the team discovering, and then defeating, a load of challenging courses along a canal, but it was the right combination of impressive, dangerous, and likeable.
   
• In a clip from British TV late-night show The Last Leg, Alex Horne and his band play a song about peas. A perfect combination of folk song and puerile comedy punchlines. (Puerile comedy punchlines.)

• Nerds with a CT scanner produce beautiful cutaways of everyday objects, in Scan of the Month. This is an odd web site, though: extremely professional design, privacy policy, all corporate and expensive... but not apparently selling anything. Until you click on 'learn about us' and realise that it's promoting the CT-scanning startup. Like a TikTok that's filmed with a professional camera, it seems weirdly inauthentic... but the scans are interesting. (Thanks Vinny for sending this over!)
   
• Fascinating but horrifying: a prescription antipsychotic can also cause gambling addiction.
   
• Autonomous taxis in San Francisco are being stopped... by people with traffic cones.

And finally, Anthony Vincent wrote a metal song about his cat.

All the best,

— Tom