Today is Christmas Eve, which means not a creature is stirring. Well, except for me who is still wrapping gifts. Every year… Honestly, I don’t know how to get things done before they’re due.

Battle Royale cleaning coming to a home near you

Fortnite and the Battle Royale genre is hitting everything, including Scrabble. Just another game for me to suck at. If Battle Royale Cleaning ever becomes a reality it will only exacerbate my suckiness.

Internet Travels

Geek

• Focusing sound vibrations precisely can knock over one Lego minifig among many | Ars Technica
• 88MPH: The Story of the DeLorean Time Machine | Full Documentary - YouTube
• How ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Forever Changed Hollywood - The Ringer

Retro

• Inventing the Atari 2600 - IEEE Spectrum - An amazing piece of equipment, no framebuffer and 128 bytes of RAM!
• ATX80, ZX-80 computer clone with ATmega8 processor
• Nerdly Pleasures: Nintendo Board and Chip Manufacture and Third Parties
• Analogue Pocket will soon let you save Game Boy Camera photos to an SD card - The Verge - It’s still not enough to make me want to get one.
• This 8-bit processor built in Minecraft can run its own games | PCWorld

Technology

• Amazon Workers Say Warehouses Lack Safety After Collapse - Brings new meaning to “The IT staff knows everything that is going on”. The IT groups supporting the warehouse knew something was up before the higher-ups at Amazon. They were trying to figure out why they lost connectivity to the building.
• Turns out that “HDMI 2.1” ports don’t need to actually support HDMI 2.1 features | Ars Technica - And displaying “Broadcast in HD” means I’m receiving the show in high definition.
• Swift Playgrounds 4.0: First Look - MacStories - Pretty cool to be able to publish to the App store from the iPad.
• The metaverse has a groping problem already | MIT Technology Review - Yet more evidence that a lot of people suck.
• Chipotle’s first ‘digital kitchen’ opens later this month in Ohio | Engadget
• Tom Brady’s best throw of the night destroys Microsoft tablet - The Verge

Pop Culture

• 'Return of the Jedi' Among 25 Eclectic Films Joining National Film Registry | Library of Congress
• 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' tried to avoid all those villainous leaks - Los Angeles Times - That would have made the movie even more awesome if the villians weren’t given away in the trailer.
• How Coke Invented Santa Claus - YouTube

Pot Pourri

• Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
• You Know How When You Learn a New Word, You See It Everywhere? Science Knows Why
• First millipede found with more than 1,000 legs
• One algorithm for all decisions

• Asides
• tgir