Venba
What a great little game. It tells the story of a family that moves from their home to a new country – and uses a cooking of traditional dish minigame to help tell the story.
Modest Mouse is not wrong about the dangers of over-permissiveness
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock lives in Portland, Oregon, but he’s not at all excited about it.
In an interview with Polish website Onet, Brock had some harsh things to say about the city, as Willamette Week points out.
He admits he kind of ended up in Portland out of circumstance, but it’s not really where he’d like to live. He continued: “Portland is weird, but it’s kind of a crappy weird. It is the most vagrant-ridden… it’s really fuckin’ up my liberal mind. I’m just like, what a collection of human turds. Within the one week before I came on this tour, I had to run people out of my house. Twice with axes. Two people died. This is within 300 feet of my house. It’s just a constant shitshow of fights.
“And that’s just Portland keeping itself weird. That’s the saying: Keep Portland weird… It’s a cool city. But a lot of the keeping itself weird is actually just allowing people to be complete pieces of shit. And that’s exhausting.”
You can watch the video and read more here.
Make your own volumetric display
Ancient created this swept 3D volumetric display using spinning LED panels. He can even even play DOOM on it.
The parts and code list is also shared:
- Code for the display driver & demos is available here: https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
- STEP file containing all of the printable parts shown is available here: https://github.com/AncientJames/Vorte…
Nerf Team Fortress 2 turret
The Hacksmith replicated a level 2 Sentry Turret from Team Fortress 2. It’s no slouch – it can shoot over 200 rounds per minute.
Drone to the French Alps
Romano FPV takes his drone on an epic flight from Chamonix (1030m) to Aiguille du midi (3842m) in the French Alps.
Nailing the Yukon Cornelius impression
Illoominated II
This projection mapping installation by Todd Moyer Designs was inspired by the machinery of a fabric loom. Projections create the illusion of rolling spools of yarn and woven textiles, while colorful laser beams emulate thread. Illoominated II was on display at the Portland Winter Light Festival 2025.
Robotic tentacles
Engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China, this biomimetic soft robot moves like an octopus tentacle. SpiRobs can bend, twist, and grasp a variety of objects. The mechanical arm is capable of lifting up to 260 times its weight while having a gentle enough grip to handle fragile objects.
Wow scratching machine
Headachesound is a self-contained gadget for making turntable scratch effects. You can load it with your samples and beats, then jog its high-sensitivity mini turntable to manipulate sounds. Music producer Mr Viktor got his hands on a prototype and put it through its paces.
Oregon dead last in reading
Why is Mississippi doing so well?
In 2013, the state passed a reform to require teachers to understand the science of reading (basically, phonics), deploy literacy coaches to schools, identify students struggling to read early and hold back students in third grade who weren’t ready to advance.
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana have now done much the same, and have also made gains.
The original source of all this was a 2002 reading law in Florida that boosted student achievement in the Sunshine State.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mississippi-is-no-miracle-its-the-future-of-education/
Meanwhile, Oregon, with some of the highest per-student spending, run for over a decade by a one of the most progressive Democratically controlled state legislatures in both the house and senate, continues to double-down on proven failed teaching methods and suspended all education standards to graduate in order to promote racial equality.
While Oregon is passing increasing numbers of functionally illiterate children on to adulthood, kids in Mississippi can read, and other countries children are doing this: