A book! a waistcoat! and a timezone quirk I'd never heard of.

• Would I watch a regular video of someone making a waistcoat? Probably not. Would I watch Vincent Briggs painstakingly making a 1770s waistcoat that includes dozens of Werther's Originals wrappers in order to make an obscure literary joke? Absolutely. In his words: "I'm not making this to be historically accurate, I'm making it because I thought it would be funny". Also, tailoring something takes so long! (Contains slight, brief sight of blood. Thanks to Trinity for sending this over.)
   
• Pianote is a company that sells music lessons, and — thanks in part to their budget and contacts — they've hit upon a golden YouTube format. Find a professional pianist or keyboard player; find a well-known hit song that they've somehow not heard; play just the drums and vocals and let them improvise a piano part. A Harry Styles song. A Sabrina Carpenter song. There's a whole playlist of them, but the standout for me is the most recent: Jon Batiste, in his own studio, hearing Green Day's "Holiday" for the first time. It's format-breaking, there's none of the usual layering of sounds or careful note-taking, it's just someone incredibly talented showing off their skills with what the description accurately calls "infectious joy". I just kept smiling at this. They have a similar playlist of drummers; I can only assume there'll be one for guitars or vocals soon.
   
• Cabel Sasser gives a wonderful talk about a McDonalds mural, theme parks, and blasphemy. (Start from 2:39 to skip the catch-up about a previous talk.) This was on my to-watch list for a while: several people told me something along the lines of "I can't spoil it for you, but it's worth watching". And it is. I can't spoil it for you, but it's worth watching.
   

• She's one of Florida's most lethal python hunters. A ride-along, and profile of, one of the hundred bounty hunters who go out into the Florida Everglades at night to catch and kill invasive snakes. This is a nuanced, fascinating portrait.
   
• Time in Ethopia is offset by six hours. Not by time zones: but many Ethiopians use a twelve-hour clock that starts at approximately dawn and dusk. It's still the same clock, it's just the meridian (the m in am and pm) has been moved by six hours. I'd never even thought about that being possible before!
   

And finally: you guys ever wonder how the baseball strike zone graphics work? (strong language)

All the best,

— Tom