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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Walk? Email Glenn!
- Alton Brown wants you to read recipes better than you probably do.
- Also in recipes, an archaeological team in Turkey is preparing some old-fashioned meals in an old-fashioned way.
- Robert Moses worked his racism into his redesign of New York City in large and small ways.
- It’s time to get some cookies! Support your local Girl Scouts. Just don’t include some of the more dicey varieties when you do.
- This Week in 3D Printing: you can now hold in your hot little hand a sundial that displays time like a digital clock.
- 106-year-old Virginia MaLaurin meeting the President & First Lady is just about the best thing that happened this week.
- This Week in Music Analysis: They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard has surprising depth.
- This Week in Awesome Jobs: space archaeologist — with added crowdsourcing!
- One solution to confusing time zone changes is, of course, to just blow up the whole system.
- Old-timey presidential art sure does have a tinge of shipping about it. (Hell, newer presidential art can develop a tendency toward the creepy.)
- This Week in Histories of Everything: the humble shopping cart enables us to spend a bunch of money a lot more easily than we might otherwise. Huzzah.
- Animal domestication, both how it happens and why humans domesticate the animals we do, will just always be fascinating to me.
