Industrial machinery! a spectacular stunt! and the old web.

• Last week, I mentioned I'd never made it to the Marquette Ore Docks, where ships are filled with iron from enormous industrial contraptions. Thanks to newsletter reader Dave for sending over the other half of the story: footage of the incredible Hulett Ore Unloaders. Don't expect an in-video explanation here, this is just B-roll taken by someone who happened to have a camera — but what footage! The operators are riding the unloaders themselves, and towards the end of the operation, those unloaders are grabbing onto full-size, crewed excavators, and lowering them into the ship's hold! These are no longer in operation, sadly, but what an incredible piece of industrial history.
   
• I've also never made it to Dursey Island, Ireland's only cable car that used to transport livestock, on the Wild Atlantic Way. It was always a bit too far out of my way; the weather was always unreliable; and there were no longer livestock on it! But relatively-new nerd-travel channel What On Earth Is This? has no such worries and still makes an entertaining video. His style is more like the Tim Traveller than me, taking the audience along for the journey and including plenty of side detail. This channel will hopefully continue to fit nicely into that (hopefully non-zero-sum) genre of "come and look at this with me".
   
• The DD Squad, Slovenian daredevils and acrobats, build a device that pushes someone backwards off a truck at exactly the speed the truck is going. In theory, the velocities should cancel out, and they should just able to just stand up. In practice... well, you'll have to watch the video for that.
   

• Alphabet Soup for Picky Eaters is a lovely, short puzzle game. There are deliberately no instructions: you'll just need to figure it out, and it's rewarding when you do.
   
• The windshield-pitting mystery of 1954. Was it nuclear testing? Copycat vandals? Or, just possibly, was it just people hearing about "windshield pitting" and suddenly noticing the flaws in their own car windshields? This article's been doing the rounds this week thanks to all the drone sightings in New Jersey.
   
• Thanks to an anonymous reader for sending over Wiby, a "search engine for the classic web" that links only to sites which would fit into the web of decades past. Click the 'surprise' link to be taken to a random burst of nostalgia. (Those appear to generally be suitable for work, I've seen nothing that'd need a content warning, but it's a random link: no guarantees there.)
   

And finally: behold the Saxsquatch. (Thanks to Blair for sending this over!)

All the best,

— Tom