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 Week in Updates: The stroller-stolen shark is back at its aquarium, so we can call off the sharkhunt.
- The heist community has moved on, now, to the next logical target after a literal shark: the Swedish crown jewels. (Autoplay video)
- I plugged this band a couple of times last year, but right now all of Seeming’s albums are on sale for $1 each on Bandcamp. Start with the latest full album and go from there. It’s transfixing, thought-provoking, singable, amazing stuff.
- Last week in Boise, Idaho, a herd of goats got loose and set off the best possible stampede by milling around cheerfully snacking on grass.
- This Week in Wedding Ideas: A guerilla wedding in an art museum is the best wedding plan I’ve seen in a long, long time.
- This Week in Architecture: We’ve covered open-plan offices recently; let’s go ahead and bring walls back into all of those open-plan homes too.
- In the US, the EPA is preparing to bring deadly asbestos back into the consumer market (by entertaining new uses while still — for now — seeming to ban the products that were banned in the 70s), because we are hell-bent on unlearning every single lesson and undoing every single advance in the 20th century.
- Someone finally gave Carly Rae Jepsen a sword. The only things we need to complete the circle and perform the ritual, now, are the precious sarcophagus juice and the most ancient ham. Don’t believe me? Don’t believe the time is nigh, that we must act before it’s too late? The gremlins in Google Translate know what’s up.
- This Week in Positivity: a team of Navajo kids are building a robot to represent North America.
- I just recently booked my first cruise (taking to sea with a bunch of bears next February), and I should probably try not to read too many articles about how often people fall off the ding-dang ship and go back to looking at photos of the type of cabin I got.
- It’s amazing how new scanning techniques reveal more than we were ever able to get out of ancient artifacts, like scrolls burned by Mount Vesuvius.
- This Week in Wednesday Walk Top Tips: Should you find yourself in possession of a parabolic mirror, capable of concentrating great amounts of light and heat, don’t forget it in the back of your car at the height of a hellish summer.
- Well done.
- Let’s take a short break to dive into a fascinating thread on a lurid Victorian-era murder, shall we?
- This Week in Woodworking: Wooden dowels and pegs are used in timber construction all the time, but this is the first I’ve heard of wooden nails, driven by a normal ol’ pneumatic nail gun.
- There are lots of inventions that have propelled the human race to new levels of technological sophistication, but sometimes the initial reviews were a little dodgy.
