A journey! Lateral, in full video! and excellent ducks.

• Travelling Turtle tries to get as far from London as possible in 24 hours, using only public transit. This is a charming travelogue, with well-written narration that means the video deserves its length. This is one of the earlier videos on the channel, so there are some technical problems: audio tracks are often hard-panned into one ear and, infuriatingly, it's filmed at 30fps but published at 25fps, creating a noticeable judder on the many tracking shots across the European landscape. But if you can get over those minor flaws, this is a lovely, slow video that gave me back some wanderlust. (Thanks to Jonathan for sending this over!)
   
• The evolution of avalanche mitigation in Utah is quite a corporate video, but it's worth a watch. I do wish it had a more basic introduction to the whys-and-hows, and a bit more detail about both the technical stuff — it's still fascinating, though. Also, it also includes some explosions.
   
• The top-rated video from the Macaulay Library this year is torrent ducks, in a torrent.
   

• I'd somehow never read the judgment in Bradshaw v Unity Marine before. It's written by a judge with a sense of humour best described as lurching between 'well-deserved mockery' and 'unprofessional', depending on your opinion of just how much vicious mockery lawyers can deserve. "Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact—complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words—to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats."
   
• How did human butts evolve to look that way?
   
• A fascinating story from the British National Archives of Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King. "Bertie Sheldrake was a South London pickle manufacturer who converted to Islam and became king of a far-flung Islamic republic before returning to London and settling back into obscurity."

And finally, on TikTok: you swiff me right round.

All the best,

— Tom