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!
- If you have a white refrigerator, it can be so much more. It can be a Game Boy.
- Windows 10 automatically spies on your kids and emails you about their activity. This is doubleplus ungood. Don’t spy on your kids; don’t take boundaries away from your kids. No no no no.
- One writer has a theory about “ring composition” that leads him to believe that the Star Wars prequels exhibit incredibly sophisticated storytelling prowess. It’s certainly an, erm, interesting theory, even if it doesn’t exactly make the prequels at all entertaining.
- From Radiolab: two parents decided to donate organs and tissues from their doomed newborn, and then decided to see what happened to them later.
- This Week in Art: water sculptures made from layers of glass.
- This Week in Histories of Everything: black lipstick, from the Egyptians to the Maori to the Hot Topic set.
- Spray your mouth all nice and shiny and chrome, get someone to witness you, and die historic on the Fury Road — well, subtract the death and add paintball guns.
- A happy fun-time internet diversion: look at this pool full of summertime revelers and spot the child who’s drowning. (Spoiler: the kid’s all right by the end.)
- In the annals of board-game variations, coming for me after my experiences with Five-Board Monopoly Without End, there is the glory of CrapScrabble.
- In the realm of internet history, don’t trust a corporation to do a library’s job.
- Here’s Sigourney Weaver testing out the flame thrower from Alien. Your argument is invalid.
- In physics terms, a mosh pit can be conceptualized as “a disordered gas-like state.”
- This Week in Home Decorating: dinosaur fossil coasters, for the classy customer.
- The Washington Generals have been ejected(?) from the Harlem Globetrotters’ league(?), leaving them with an end to a losing streak stretching back for thousands of games.
- This Week in Decent Human Beings: a barber in Iowa is giving free back-to-school haircuts to kids who read stories to him while he cuts their hair.
- An art historian can always embark on an adventure. One such historian found a long-lost Hungarian painting in the background of a scene in Stuart Little.
- If you ever happen to be in the middle of a pod of humpback whales, you too might feel this reporter‘s sheer unbridled joy.
