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 informative.
- Some of us have to have routines to compensate for unreliable memories — the keys are always in this place, the phone is always in this pocket, the spare key is in the wallet just in case. So it comes as no great surprise to me that if you need to store something as important as a whole heap of drugs, you might label it very clearly, as one Florida resident does.
- Also in Florida, the scourge of invasive species might be combatted through drone warfare. Of course.
- Harvey Weinstein must go directly to jail, do not pass go. Now let’s get all of his enablers and apologists.
- This Week in the Public Domain: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is now offering a treasure trove of 19th-century naturists’ drawings for download.
- Also in the public domain, thanks to the Smithsonian, are millions of images now liberated from copyright.
- Many companies are forced into desperate pivots as their business models are decimated by online shopping. One obvious solution is to find something that has to be done in a brick-and-mortar location, so in the same way that every Barnes and Noble is now a coffee shop, Staples is starting to move into renting out podcast recording studios.
- This Week in Music History: Consider, if you will, the artistic trajectory of Young MC vis-à-vis moves and how they are busted.
- One blind cave salamander stayed still for a whopping seven years. If I were human, I believe my response would be: #goals. If I were human.
- Living in the future can be mind-bending. There are laptops with 28TB of solid-state storage space.
- This antique toaster is better than yours due to ingenious engineering solutions, even though the electrical insulation is all but nonexistent.
