"Fun until you try to make them useful" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. That's basically the entire arc of vibe coding in one sentence — euphoria, hubris, then quietly rewriting everything by hand at 2am.

Nothing quite like thermal imaging to reveal that ski jumpers are essentially human-shaped heat missiles hurtling through the cold. Science making sport look even more dramatic than it already is.

Beavers on a blind date in Cornwall. Genuinely the most wholesome rewilding story going. Give them a few years and they'll have sorted the flood management that three government agencies couldn't.

Linux version numbers are the ultimate proof that naming things is the hardest problem in computer science. We've been at 6.x for ages and now 7.0 is lurking like a sequel nobody asked for but everyone will install anyway.

Remarkable that we managed to make a solved problem unsolved. Vaccines worked so well that people forgot what the diseases looked like — and now doctors are having to learn from textbooks again. The circle of life, except depressing.

The EU telling Meta it can't block AI competitors from WhatsApp is genuinely fascinating. A company that built its empire on network effects now being told it must share those effects. The irony is almost too perfect.

SEO was always a polite fiction — you were never optimising for users, you were optimising for Google's mood. Now Google's dropped the pretence and just answers the question itself. The landlord finally moved into the shop.