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.
- This Old House is turning forty this year, and it’s nice to see the old hosts coming together, after the show sent each one down the memory hole after his tenure was over. I kind of feel like the show was most at its stride in the Steve Thomas era, after it became more of an ensemble show than it could ever have been with Bob Vila (the character he played on the show did have a tendency to suck up all the oxygen in a room), but before Norm Abram, everyone’s true favorite, faded from prominence. It’s still a fine show, just one with more and shorter scenes, and with an aging core cast.
- RIP Jared Lorenzen.
- This Week in Games: The US Library of Congress is making the D&D Player’s Handbook available in braille and audio for visually-disabled players.
- It can be hard to keep up with all of the jargon in modern tech news. Let this handy guide help you make the most sense of current events in the tech field.
- In the UK, an antisemitic arsonist set fire to a synagogue wall, which immediately became a flamethrower aimed directly at his face. Oh no. What a shame. (This is a rare instance where I actually recommend watching the video attached to a news article.)
- Also in fire, a gender reveal car stunt in Australia wound up burning out someone’s car, which seems like an expensive and wasteful way of announcing that you’re an asshole who thinks that the shape of some fetal genitals you saw on an ultrasound means something. But hey, at least they didn’t start a forest fire this time.
- There’s always a way to put the FUN in funeral, if you’re willing to look hard enough.
- Any media you’ve bought that lives on some company’s server can be removed at its whim.
- A People Map of the US replaces place names with the most-searched person associated with that place. Most of the entries are actors or athletes, with some politicians and others thrown in.
- Upside-down sharks are just having a great time and a bang-up night.
- I understand this writer’s case for making social security numbers public and ending their use as personal authentication due to repeated breaches making them less than secure already, but we’ll just have to use something else at that point, and then that will be subject to the exact same database security failures.
- It turns out that Alanis is as thoughtful and delightful a person as one might expect.
- Horse skulls are definitely a fine building material, I don’t care what anybody says.
