Ben Daubney

> LINK · The Katamari Object Library A wonderfully put together index of every item available to collect/absorb/become in both Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari, presented in a Windows XPish interface.

> LINK · "Mark - A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire" by Jeremy Stern This is really lovely prose that I enjoyed reading but boy is it a lousy argument.

> LINK ·Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’ New interview with Franzen to promote a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of 'The Corrections'.

> LINK · 'You You You' by Arab Strap on YouTube Holy moly.

If you're fortunate enough to be able to book a cruise with Virgin Voyages1, you might have seen the "bid to level up" option hidden away on your booking confirmation.

> LINK · 'WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary'

> LINK · 'This is not the computer for you' by Sam Henri Gold A really nice blog about technology reviewers.

After two frustrating hours including an unnecessarily optimistic reinstallation of a 90GB game, I finally figured out how to wipe your Forza Horizon 4 progress on the Steam Deck.

> LINK · Anemoia: the psychology behind feeling nostalgic for a time you’ve never known This came up recently in Jonathan Coe's novel The Proof Of My Innocence, noting how twentysomethings obsessively watch 'Friends' for some pre-smartphone, low-risk nost…

> LINK · Gradient Horse A fun little toy where you, erm, draw a horse and then see it run along a lovingly-rendered CSS plain along with the horses drawn by other users.

> LINK · 'MOPy fish' on Wikipedia Something suddenly remembered: this screensaver released by HP in 1997.

From Craig Mod's excellent walking travelogue Things Become Other Things: So I walked.

I now pronounce... ...an album of the year post clumsily written around the theme of marriage.