Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.
- If you’re in the US, you should probably look into the Equifax data breach settlement. Check your eligibility here, and if you’re eligible, file a claim. You can’t really stick it to Equifax the way it should be stuck to them — credit reporting agencies will still, like, exist and be important and stuff — but you can at least sign up for the paltry amount they’re obligated to pay back.
- We’re barely halfway through 2019, and already the top-films-of-the-decade lists are sprouting up. Did the writers even have enough time to give Stuber full consideration??
- Madame Tussaud’s wax figure gallery must be a remnant of the pre-social-media age, when you’d go gawk at celebrities captured in wax figures of varying levels of quality because you couldn’t yet follow them on Twitter and find out about all of the opinions they have that piss you off. And yet, the Madame persists, supplying the world with more and more celebrities whose visages may in fact be haunted.
- Surprisingly, it’s not actually possible to recreate Super Mario Bros. in Mario Maker 2.
- Before the Marvel endgame hit earlier this year, half of the internet was begging for a mega-sized recap video narrated by Luis. We didn’t wind up getting it, but this will show you the scenes that actually matter.
- The new Lion King drills out the vitality of the original and replaces it with cold, dead, uncanny eyes amid a thousand shades of beige, because it’s staking a place far to one end of a cultural conversation about “realism” that leads to a whole lot of bad arguments about fiction.
- Doing the hard work of history must surely involve some understanding of the vagaries of human memory and the ways that we narrativize events as they’re happening before re-narrativizing them again and again over time.
- This Week in Music: You too can play the slide trombone, from the comfort of your web browser.
- Friend of the Walk Steve Wille sends word that you too can come up with very specific and disappointingly inadequate policy proposals just as well as Kamala Harris’ campaign staff.
- You and I may not get the opportunity to say hello to a piglet squid, but we can live in hope.
- Live theatre is one of those professions that demands a tremendous, outrageous amount of work, dedication, emotional investment, and general blood, sweat, and tears. Sometimes you do it for an audience in the single digits and everyone tries to keep it together. Sometimes that turns into a truly transcendent experience.
- Sony is developing a wearable cooling unit, though the real takeaway for me in this story is that Sony of all companies is outsourcing the funding for its R&D to crowdfunding sponsors.
- The heat wave in Europe isnotable for its deadliness and its disturbing visage of the future, but of course other regions of the world have higher heat, less water, and more people.
- When your cat yartzes on your computer and cuts off your video game stream, you need to decide what your priorities are in life (and where you put your computer).
- The newest bold innovation in football, the AAF, may have died a quick and painful death, but at least while it was alive it lived up to its potential by giving Marshawn Lynch $5000 in quarters for a two-minute interview that never aired. I think I speak for all of us here at the Place to Be Nation Dot Com when I say that we would gladly do the same for Mr. Lynch.
