I couldn't make these videos, but other people did!

• Wonderful chaos as Evan and Katelyn try to make the world's heaviest dice out of resin, tungsten powder and a lot of trial and error.
   
• I never tackled "California water rights" on my channel. I thought about covering it, I found a couple of interesting locations... but I could never figure out the narrative, there was just too much to the story. Fortunately, Rollie Williams has taken it on, and included better jokes than I ever could: who's taking America's water?
   
• And this feels like a video from my early days: Let Us Try That visits a strange neighbourhood in Cameron Park, California that's a "fly-in community". I actually did ask to film at Cameron Park once, but never got any response from the folks there. My channel was far too established by that point to do this sort of simple just-passing-by visit (I'd have needed to actually land or take off, and I'd have needed to interview someone local!) so it's nice to see a video that tackles all the main points. I do miss making videos like this.
   

• The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a challenge to write "opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels", and the 2024 winners have been announced. Deliberately bad writing requires a special talent.
   
• I do like daily puzzles, and Gisnep is the latest one to catch my eye. The letters of the quote are in the right columns, but not necessarily in the right order: in other words, it's a Quotefall with a couple of extra tricks that works decently-enough on mobile. This is a little more challenging than the average Wordle, but it's still easy enough to be a daily challenge while feeling rewarding.
   
• Programmer fallacies about postcodes. However big you think this postcode might be, it's almost certainly bigger.

And finally: Siegfried and Joy's TikTok account is, well, a joy. Occasional videos from them keep coming up on my feed: it's the same joke every time but somehow it always makes me smile.

All the best,

— Tom