Weeknote, Sunday 31st May

A hot week which ended with manflu for me. Nothing worse than a summer cold. Domestic football season is over but all attention now on the World Cup. Sad news that Billy Gilmour won’t be there after picking up an injury in yesterdays warm up game and its pretty remarkable that Tyler Fletcher is his replacement. In Steve Clarke we trust, but that’s some call.

📺 Media

Race Across the World came to an end and what a glorious series it was. Spoilers ahead….but I was so pleased that Jo and Kush won not only the game but also were the team that really grew on me through the programme. Felt the most real of all the teams though none were in any way bad. Producers of that show really know how to select the right pairings and also produce an amazing series to watch.

The Boys came to an end and it was all a bit of a damp squib. The first two series stand out as by far the best and the last episode was a bit of an anti climax. For All Mankind also finished this week and I found season 5 to be the weakest so far, especially the last episode with some all to convenient loose ends tied up.

Loved Project Hail Mary and 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple and good to hear they’ve green-lit another 28 Days film to wrap everything up.

🔗 Links

• Disney erased FiveThirtyEight – An act of internet vandalism. While the original author look to bring the content back, there’s good work being done to establish a full index here.
• Celebrating Doodles – Google Doodles are an art form and this is an amazing searchable collection of every doodle.
• Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years – Quite the change and given the hit an miss nature of its AI summaries, I sure hope they know what they are doing.
• Project Glasswing: An initial update – Looks like the Mythos update isn’t all hype.
• ‘Men and boys need to see this’: Jo and Kush and the joy of Race Across the World – 2 young men being kind to each other and to people they met on their journey – a great antithesis to the typical male stereotypes we see on social media today.
• Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year – I love Plex but this is a sign of things to come. They are moving in a direction opposite to it’s origins IMHO, so time to look at alternatives like Jellyfin.
• The Face of WipEout: Building Feisar in Lego – This is stunning…I may have to buy this.
• Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 – Ramageddon claims another victim. Such a high price for a four year old console.
• Wired pulls plug on UK print edition as it focuses on global subscriber growth – End of an era. I fear for Edge Magazine in the face of higher prices.
• What Is a Dickover? – Gruber nails it yet again. Modern web can be so tiring.
• The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech – and here’s a list of more dickover type problems that blight tech.
• Broadband and mobile bills are soaring in the UK – depending on who you talk to – surprise surprise, the UK looks very different to the European market.
• 28 Summers | A Scottish FA Film | Presented by EE – It’s just over 80 minutes long but I loved this documentary released by the SFA that covers the road to the World Cup.