another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

A friend on Facebook has just reminded me of the time I did the maths and worked out that Santa's life is a living hell.

Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

Ah yes. The best article title ever

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

This is a tremendous website, I highly recommend a scroll.

The Deep Sea

Here's a fun fact from the site.

neal.fun/deep-sea/

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

My resolution, and I think it’s doable, is to run so fast into a chain link fence that I come out as cubes.

Every Movement In Man’s Burrito-Eating Technique Informed By Past Burrito Tragedies
theonion.com/every-moveme...

One hundred years ago this week, a young man, about to leave to fight in the trenches, wrote a poem for his fiancee, who was in a sanatorium dying of tuberculosis. Forty-four years later the poem was discovered and turned into a song. The song? "Yakety yak (Don't talk back)"

Scarred For Life advent calendar door fifteen: Forget the turkey this Christmas, stuff your face with longpig, erm, British Pork instead. Santa's got plenty!

me: perfect, no notes
john cage: thank you