I went to see the Odyssey yesterday and my main thought was 'why have they cast Jack Dorsey in the lead role?'. Anyway, here's Web Curios which contains literally NOTHING about Christopher Nolan or Homer, but does contain loads of amazing links and so is BETTER: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...

Friday! Lunchtime! A special, commemorative Burnham Bounce edition of Web Curios! Share, enjoy, CLICK THE PAIN OF DEFEAT AWAY! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...

The volume of entirely-AI-generated inbound emails I am receiving has tipped into 'incredibly annoying' territory, so I am now using this boilerplate response which I encourage you to adapt for your own purposes

There's an Android app which alerts you to people in your vicinity wearing Meta glasses, which on the one hand feels good and on the other feels like it's going to end with someone being beaten up: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Friday! Lunchtime! Weary words and the very hottest of links from a man who may well EXPIRE this weekend - in case I do, the least you can do is click (also, it's full of GREAT STUFF). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, pray for me! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-10...

We have had over 300 sites submitted to this year's Tiny Awards, so IN YOUR FACE people who say there's nothing good on the web anymore. Nominations are open for ~24h hours, so here's your FINAL CHANCE to nominate your favourite website from the past 12 months to win!: tinyawards.net

Why not spend some time this afternoon ingesting the very best* of the past week's internet? THERE IS NO REASON. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03... *Ok, fine, maybe not the 'best' but certainly a massive amount of it

Friday! Lunchtime! Enough links to keep you going til you start having to queue for the pub c.5pm on Sunday evening! Web Curios! All of the best links stuffed clumsily into the world's least-wieldy newsletter! Share! Enjoy! BE CAREFUL ON SUNDAY DON'T DIE OF BOOZE! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-03...

There's ONE WEEK LEFT to nominate your favourite non-commercial, artistic, poetic, silly, frivolous website of the past 12 months for the 2026 Tiny Awards! We've had 100s of nominations so far but would like more, please - entries are free, please help us celebrate the Good Internet: tinyawards.net

Had to pop to X briefly, learned that Hollywood cannibal Armie Hammer's comeback film is a fascist fever dream called 'citizen vigilante' all about a man shooting lots of very arab-coded immigrant criminals, directed by Uwe Boll. Elon is, unsurprisingly, a fan. That'll sort the image problems!

This week's Web Curios is brought to you by this lad at the RA Summer Exhibition and a light-but-persistent patina of sweat: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-26...

Friday! Lunchtime! COOLING LINKS TO SOOTHE AND DISTRACT! Shut the curtains and hide from the sun in the company of the very best the web has to offer - seriously, these are GOLDEN this week and might help you forget about why exactly we're all so sweaty. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-26...

Sneak preview of the best link from today's newsletter - did you know that you can play Half-Life 2, the FULL GAME, in your browser, for free? Well now you can. This is ASTONISHING, and is the best thing you can do with your Friday, hands-down (better than doing your job, at least) hl2.slqnt.dev

This week's Web Curios is brought to you by the faintly-arterial aesthetic of the Anish Kapoor show at the Hayward. Click for more visceral fun! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

I still have to look at X for work, and, very rarely, it still throws up some absolute gems

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to read to distract you from all the very, very boring chat about What The Burnham Win Means! Web Curios! So many links, so little Tedious Westminster Psychodrama! Click! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19...

Just fyi, Private Eye has this story in its current edition, published last week

I don't normally endorse middle-class flytipping, but someone on my street left this out earlier and THANKYOU ANONYMOUS PERVERT CONNOISSEUR!

Social media is shit, the kids should all get on this firewood splitting simulator instead (words cannot express how immensely-satisfying this is, you will be humming the lumberjack song in seconds): screen.toys/firewood/

This week's Web Curios is brought to you by the massive fibreglass cat in Catford and the general feeling that it's probably too nice out to spend the whole afternoon clicking these (admittedly excellent) links: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Friday! Lunchtime! An immense quantity of really fun and interesting links! ALL OF THE WEB THAT'S FIT TO CONSUME (and a few bits that, on balance, maybe aren't). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, click, marvel, FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WEB AGAIN! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

New Private Eye on Lowe, Musk, X and payouts

Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net

It's Saturday! Reward yourself for making it here with far, far too many excellent links and an equal quantity of regrettable words. Web Curios!: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

Friday! Lunchtime! A selection of links so replete, so taut with promise, that they might almost convince you everything is probably going to be ok! Web Curios! Excellent internet in a world gone mad*! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05... *incredibly racist

Worth pointing out that Starmer's statement on Grok and nudification is...sort-of bullshit, given that it is still perfectly possible to use Grok to produce nonconsensual sexualised imagery of anyone you ask it to, regardless of what Keir might say (see Private Eye, repeatedly, for more on this)

I am on my way to a wedding in Kent, and the realisation is creeping over me that I am *slightly* more hungover than would ideally be the case. Here's this week's Web Curios, which you should all ignore in favour of being outside: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-22...

Friday! Lunchtime! I know you want to be out there drinking in the sunshine (take that whichever way you prefer), but why not spend the last few hours before THE FIRST BIG WEEKEND OF THE SUMMER by reading my words and clicking the (vastly superior) links. Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-22...