I met my robot double. (Seriously.)

• The USCSB investigates disasters in chemical plants: but rather than just producing dry reports, they also make gold-standard video presentations, including narration and CG reconstructions, of incidents. They're always a sobering, but fascinating, watch, and their new video is no exception.
   
• James from Atomic Frontier continues to set new a new bar for "doing things while talking to camera": in Surviving the World's Biggest Avalanche he presents while buried in snow and while skiing downhill! (The video's pretty good too.)
   
• "Grab a trampoline and go to the airport with your friends." 15 seconds, TikTok, perfect, doesn't need to be any longer.

• "I’ve never talked about it publicly, but I regret ever posting it." I didn't realise that Andy Baio, one of the founders of Kickstarter, was a big part of the reason that the 'Star Wars Kid' went viral in 2003. And it raises a lot of questions about whether, in an ideal world, we should have the right to be forgotten.
   
• This article about Worldcoin and "The Orb", an iris-scanning crypto-currency... uh, thing, feels like something from a bizarre alternate reality interfacing with ours. It felt like my brain kept sliding off the details, in the manner of a Douglas Adams "Somebody Else's Problem" field. It was simultaneously fascinating and incomprehensible.
   
• Over lockdown, Britain's old, hand-written rainfall records were transcribed in a massive crowdsourced operation. This feels like the exact opposite of The Orb: a big group of strangers philanthropically working together to preserve data from the past.
   
• And finally, Comic Helvetic is a mixture of Comic Sans and Helvetica. And you know what? I quite like it.

I'm back on the road: next week's video, if all goes well, will be the first from outside the UK in a while. If all doesn't go well, then I guess I can be replaced by a robot double now.

All the best,

— Tom