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.
- We still need your advice questions for Steve Wille’s guest appearances on the ol’ Spectacular — big or small, we’ll consider them all! Email us or go to our Ask.fm page to send your questions today. (Your name won’t be read on the show without permission (so tell us what to call you if anything), and Ask.fm allows anonymous submissions.)
- You know, if we’re going to have all of these “digital assistants” (i.e. surveillance devices) listening to us constantly, they should at least understand a variety of accents.
- This Week in Home Remodeling: If your roof isn’t leaking and your wiring is grounded, maybe you don’t need to remodel it to make it look like HGTV and Pinterest houses.
- Queer Eye is coming back, y’all!
- Sandbranch, Texas, hasn’t had running water in 30 years, and may or may not be Flint’s future.
- Every so often someone releases a bunch of objects into the ocean to see where the currents take them and where & when they wash up. Usually it doesn’t take over 130 years for one to turn up, but that’s cool.
- This Week in Neural Net Processors, Learning Computers: Someone, bless them, is actually trying recipes generated by an algorithm to help the algorithm improve. Goooooood luck.
- This Week in Bad Ideas: Look, I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yums, and people can eat and/or drink whatever they want, but does this world truly require Peeps-flavored beer? Like, is this a holiday thing?
- RIP Stephon Clark, murdered by cops.
- It’s theoretically possible, if not confirmable or very likely, that ancient Greeks sailed across the Atlantic almost two thousand years ago.
- Dinosaur horns developed to maximize sexiness, and let me just say: mission accomplished.
- This Week in Good News: Bees are on the mend from Colony Collapse! (Warning: autoplay video)
- A tire place has a writer in residence. Sometimes the world is beautiful.
