Spherical houses! Scrabble! and a man gets hit by a pigeon.

• Posy gets beautiful slow-motion super-macro shots of electronic paper (some flashing images). There's lovely voiceover and subtle sound design here, too.
   
• Chess has had a resurgence online over the last few years, but I'd like to point at a game that's closer to my heart: Scrabble. It turns out there's a similar group of online experts analysing championship games: and I'd start with this analysis of a school Scrabble game that shocked the grandmasters.
   
• Emily the Engineer makes her 3D printer 10 feet tall.
   
• Off the back of last week's "Thunderbirds" mention: turns out quite a few people don't know that the series got rebooted a few years ago, for three successful seasons! The updated version uses both CG and actual, real-world miniatures from Weta Workshop, and there are quite a few full episodes on YouTube.

• Japan's hometown tax is an interesting story of depopulation, unintended consequences, and plums.
   
• The world's oldest active BitTorrent has turned 20 years old.
   
• "Las Vegas’s hottest new attraction is an interactive ransomware exhibit, currently playing out across every MGM property in the city." (strong language)
   
• Roasting vegetables wasn't a thing until the 1990s. Despite living through the 1990s, that surprised me.
   
• I found this page, written by a local, about communications on remote St Helena Island fascinating.

And finally, a man gets hit by a flying pigeon. (Both man and pigeon are doing fine.)

All the best,

— Tom