Bathroom doors and a pleasing boing.

• First of all, thanks to Tim from Unnecessary Automation for sending over his video about automated typewriter art! I always feel a bit awkward when someone sends over their own work because, based on nothing but pure statistics, it's probably not going to make it into the newsletter. Almost every video I watch doesn't make it into the newsletter, and I promise it's nothing personal. But Tim's video is great! And it shows just how high the standards are for makers on YouTube these days that my first reaction to a fully automated IBM Selectric-type-art system, software and hardware builds included, was "huh, that's a nice little build". Little? This is a lot of effort, both in build and narrative -- Tim's small channel is punching above its weight here.
   
• Kendra Gaylord talks about architecture in pop culture, and, looking back at the newsletter archive, it looks like I link to one of her videos about once a year. This time, she's asking, what happened to bathroom doors in hotels? Don't be fooled by the "holding a mic in a bedroom" style: this isn't a long ranting vlog, there's an interview and research involved.
   
• "Bird cowboy's song" is three minutes of charming cowboy-ballad about a duckling with a gun, with equally charming animation.
   

• If you have a connector, if you don't know what it is, and if you can find it... maybe you can use the Identiconn™ Connector Identification Utility. This is up-to-date but with a gloriously retro design: I understand why people make things to be mobile-first these days, but I do miss high information density being the default for things like this. (Thanks to Jordan for sending over this!)
   
• Why it’s not easy to rename "Prince Andrew Road", and the many other streets like it.
   
• Boing! I'm so glad people still make fun web toys.

And finally: a fake courtesy machine.

All the best,

— Tom