Linky Goodness 10.23

Red Bull took over one of the karting tracks at Silverstone (home of the British Grand Prix), put 100 regular folks in karts, positioned four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen at the back of the pack, and gave him 75 minutes (or 30 laps) to pass everyone. Spoiler alert: he only needed 35 minutes.

Design Fiction is a collection of UI and tech from science fiction. It’s like a mood board of science fiction controls.

Twenty-six seconds into the first trailer for Fox’s Baywatch reboot, a plane crashes into a parasail, dragging two screaming girls into the watery abyss. There’s a lot of abs, slow motion and thigh-high swimsuits as the lifeguards literally jump into action. A few seconds later, Stephen Amell’s character rides the submerged plane like a kneeboard up to the surface. It is glorious. I can’t wait.

An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the Internet Archive. I think my Dad has all of these issues, or at least most of them.

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is coming soon. Here’s the first trailer. Is this good? I can’t tell.

I have little faith in polls, and I hate prediction markets, but I can't help peeking at PressAudit's 2026 midterm tracker.

Ambient Earth is a 7.5-hour, real-time, 4K, remastered video of the orbital view from the International Space Station. Seán Doran took almost 49,000 images from 27 time-lapse sequences captured from the ISS by astronaut Butch Wilmore, repaired, remastered, and interpolated them into this incredible video.

These lunch ladies are having a great time.

I love watching Gordon Ramsay make scrambled eggs. I first saw this video years ago and, possibly because I am not a great cook, have made these eggs at home in this exact way since. Now, I want some scrambled eggs.

Voyager 1 Is the most distant man-made object. As of this month, it’s over 25 billion kilometers, 16 billion miles, away from Earth.