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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Wednesday Walk? Email Glenn!
- THE GIANT SAUSAGE HAS BEEN STOLEN, REPEAT, THE GIANT SAUSAGE HAS BEEN STOLEN
- Wednesday Walk Top Tip: don’t try to hector your customers into staying with you. This case sounds like a Justin Rozzero special.
- Another study suggests that the impact of file-sharing on movies isn’t exactly the doomsday scenario the MPAA would have us believe.
- The blackest material just got a whole lot blacker.
- Thankfully, there are some people trying to pioneer a post-coal future for Appalachia.
- The New Yorker took down the paywall on everything published since 2007. If you’re having difficulty deciding where to dive in, Longform has some suggestions.
- Earbuds are painful and ugly and horrible.
- We’ve almost totally forgotten most of the most popular songs.
- You don’t remember your infancy because, much like Kelly Bundy, you have a finite capacity for memories.
- A giant gaping hellmouth has opened in Siberia, as was foretold in the scrolls. “Scientists” might try to give their reasons for these events, but you and I know who’s coming for us. You and I know that we live in a dying, falling world.
- Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.
- Chemical reactions can happen in space thanks to quantum tunneling.
- Some X-Men just don’t make the cut.
- Be enticed by the prospect of books, AND slightly horrified, at the same time!
- It probably wouldn’t be a good idea to try the purest water there is.
- The oldest known written song has a bit of a legacy.
- Einstein was a kind soul.
- Sometimes the thing you’re trying to do just completely falls apart, and all you can do is accept it. (slightly NSFW if you don’t have headphones — plaintive swearing.)
- This Week in Pretty Pictures: massive volcanic thunderstorms. Oh yes.
- The Cassini spacecraft recently took new photos of earth from the vantage point of Saturn. Our pale blue dot gets a little more pale all the time.
- In our PTB Nation Links of the Week, the Hard-Traveling Fanboys discussed Kick-Ass, and we in the Movies of the Generation crew tumbled through 1989 and 1990. Snap into it!
