Day Soda #19: One ugly vegan
I tackle the Ugly Vegan x Temple of Seitan collaborative burger
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The 2025 Night Water Oscar Ballot results are in
Who will take home the top prize this year?
Night Water: Year Four
A quantitative look at the fourth year of this newsletter
Gig Report: High Vis / Narrow Head / Whitelands
21.2.25 @ Electric Brixton
You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands
Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?
10 years of drawing the Titanic every day
3654 days after they started, an anonymous artist looks back at ten years of Titanic drawings
The Night Water 2025 Oscar Ballot
Plus: Steven Seagal and an update on the Movies Fantasy League
A BritMex Veganuary Fast Food Tour
The best vegan “Mexican” food London has to offer
Scrubs Power Hour: Selections from Season One
Featuring hits from David Gray, Nil Lara, Cheap Trick, and more
Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits #2: Christmas
Another holiday special from the NYU Local archives
A liquid cat in your mailbox
Plus: Muppet extras, fantasy league updates, and MF Doom
Late Night Vibes: The Greatest Muppet Movie Marathon Edition
“What fools are we… that go to all night Muppets marathons?”
ipod
iPod Radio Remote, 18 years later
Is this the most inconvenient way to listen to radio in 2024?
Day Soda
Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits #1: Thanksgiving
A holiday special from the NYU Local archives
food & drink
Greggs’ Vegan Festive Bake is a worthy train treat
Miracle on the high street
ipod
Meet the developer saving the iPod’s click wheel games
Finally, you can play LOST: The Video Game with a click wheel
internet
Swifties have shown us the future of Bluesky
The mass migration of Taylor Swift stans reveals the power of Bluesky’s features for building community
nightcap
Austin Powers saying “Yeah, baby!”
Plus: Don't forget to check Disney+ for your homework
food & drink
Let's drink Pocari Sweat
Recording podcasts and drinking a Japanese sports drink at 11 pm on a Tuesday evening
Day Soda
iMod Diaries #3: Rocking with Rockbox
A deep dive into an alternative software stack
games
Tricky Madness channels the spirit of SSX
Developer Nathan Dearth wants to bring “simple, arcade-y fun” back to the snowboarding genre
Day Soda
iMod Diaries #2: A classic rebuild
Featuring a classic mistake
mailbag
What is this motorbike singing to me?
And more reasonable questions about a talking motorcycle
film & tv
Join Night Water in Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League
Taking our Oscar Ballot to the next level