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!
- This Week in Things Not to Do: I know the memo field of a check seems like a location that could use some comedic stylings, but it seems there’re people who actually read those things, and sarcastically flirting with terrorist groups will not end well for you.
- Sure, let’s get some robotic squids to explore alien oceans.
- These are dark days for the cranberry industry.
- Atari has apparently been reduced to naught but a patent troll trying to cash in on common phrases it used back in the 80s when it was relevant.
- RIP Jameel Harrison, whose car tires have been deemed more valuable than his life.
- If you’re stuck for a baby name and want to to offload the decision, you can of course pay someone to do it for you.
- Next time you want to deride people for posting about their lives online, remember that much of our historical information and some great literature comes from diaries and letters people wrote to their friends. (Remember, “kids these days” is always bullshit.)
- Also in “kids these days” being bullshit: observe the typographical nuance in modern writing.
- It’s never a bad time for ultra high-definition views of Earth from space.
- Doctor Who has a new costar, and I’m sure a non-zero number of folks think the show is ruined forever now.
- Mars needs surface water. Ceres, the largest asteroid, might contain a great deal of water. just add a large collision! (Plus a runaway greenhouse effect to raise Mars’ temperature a little, maybe.)
- So Harriet Tubman is getting onto the US’ 20-dollar bill, thank goodness, as part of a wider effort to make US money more inclusive. Sadly, it’s still going to be inclusive of noted militant white supremacist Andrew Jackson.
- Let’s get out of here on a positive note: Not Always Hopeless collects stories of personal kindness to remind us that these things are possible.
