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!
- Sometimes you catch one sporting event and fall in love.
- There are lots of bosses I’m glad I don’t work for, including most significantly the one who forces people to potentially donate their livers.
- Last week we had professional baby-naming services, but this week, there’s a better way. Help is coming, as ever, in the form of names generated by a neural network, a learning computer. Just let the computer name your child.
- Also in computer-generated text, try out this predictive-text recipe for your next party or family gathering. Remember, if you prefer your guests hungry you will not allow them to use the meat.
- Weeding out books nobody is interested in is an underrated aspect of managing a library.
- One ancient aquatic predator had eyes that were a quarter of the length of the animal itself. Good night, kids!
- There are lots of ways a web form can ask you for your phone number. One would hope nobody would ever use these.
- This Week in Crowdfunding Initiatives: lets replace subway advertizing with cat photos. We can do this, and make a difference for generations to come.
- Also in crowdfunding initiatives for the sake of cats, they’re apparently useful for getting cats down from trees as well.
- Sudo Honke is a family business that’s been brewing sake for 55 generations, just a tad longer than most of our families have been doing the things they do.
- This Week in Sports: professional rock paper scissors highlights skills you may not think are in the game. Do try not to get caught up in Sicilian Reasoning.
- Alton Brown wants you to use the slow cooker more, and frankly I quite agree.
- We recently passed the anniversary of the day England was discovered. Happy anniversary, Britons!
- In New York, someone was assaulted just for bearing a passing resemblance to Shia LaBeouf. Folks, Indiana Jones was years ago, he’s done the greatest motion picture art and/or science since then, chill.
- This Week in Histories of Everything: little did I know that alarm clocks were responsible for the destruction of the noble profession of the door-to-door waker-uppers.
