- Not sure if anyone reading this, all two, or rather, both of you, have recently had a go with a power-washer. It’s easily one of the most satisfying things in the world. Thankfully someone has put this to pixels and play mechanics with the PowerWash Simulator. Granted, you would imagine with the excitement that Woodcutter Simulator 2013 unleashed on to an unsuspecting world, that we would have had enough, but there are times when boundaries need to be pushed. There are times when decorum and good sense needs to be cast to the wind. This is one of those times.
- Imagine you had a time machine. But that time machine brought the Internet, in German, with it wherever it went. Now imagine it went to the 90’s to a video artist’s squat somewhere that was in some time-space continuum cleft space that was part New Jersey public access channel and part London art project in 2008. That is Hitness.club
- Induction - Remember magnets? Those awesome things you would play with kids that are basically magic? Now imagine that heats stuff really fast.
- When open source software goes places you may or may not want it to
- The Cult - Easily one of the most underrated bands and perhaps a victim of band timing in that difficult cleft period between new wave and rock revival
- Time Shelter (Gospodinov, 2021) - This is one of those books that is just barely entertaining enough to get you through the first half and then out of nowhere gets good. The best bits were about Europe having referendums on which decade they want to be again, forever, snd how they did it. Then it takes all sorts of weird breaking the fourth wall second person who is the narrator and what is this book and is this world real stuff.
- The Long Way Home (AppleTV) - I would like to say this is painfully twee, but this is not the case. It is satisfyingly boring. Nothing happens. To see the level of construed action they pull out of it drizzling a bit is fascinating. Or mosquitoes, ooh, there’s loads of them. And these are the good, exciting bits. The whole thing is an exercise in patience. You watch expecting something. What you get is Ewan MacGregor constantly cheekily imploring, “Oh Charlie," to some quip about salt or the quality of gravel. This is the gravitas we all yearn for in our lives and they have it all figured out, flaunting it at you, shoving it in your face. You don’t care though because, well, this is about as confrontational as an apple pie.
- Arte Channel - Does the EU pay for this or something? No idea, but I can’t get enough of it. 36 minutes about traditional rowing in the Faroe Islands? Renoir’s early childhood? Queens of the Stone Age live in Paris? Yes, please.
- The Great Sword Heist of 2025
- If anyone can be positively flustered about geography the way I am and then plough it into your face like I wished I could, it would be @geographynow_official.
