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.
- If you ventured out for the eclipse on Monday, well, first of all I’m very sorry the world didn’t end. Second, did you see any lizard men?
- Also, if you got eclipse glasses, don’t throw them away — Astronomers Without Borders will be collecting glasses for people in South America & Asia who will be getting an eclipse of their own in 2019.
- You too can own the world’s biggest gummy worm…or maybe you’d prefer the party python or the cherry gummy turkey leg?
- Good for Britney Spears, recovering from the massive outside control and loss of privacy she was under since childhood.
- Tidying up the house can be a joyful and powerful process.
- Take advantage of the true potential for makeup to create optical illusions and get your autumn look locked down.
- The timeline of the far future is here to help you keep your schedule. (More)
- Here’s the thing about Most Expensive Homes lists: look at any of those places and imagine actually using them as homes. Like, imagine driving into a palatial estate with groceries in the trunk and falling over onto the couch to relax for a while. With a golden chandelier hanging over you, probably. My middle-class brain cannot conceive of it.
- Dark web, show me the secret Amazon brands.
- There are lots of folks who seriously believe that now is the time to go easy on vehicular homicide because they hate protestors.
- This Week in Covers: 4’33, the death metal cover.
- The oldest known winery is an Armenian site dating back over six thousand years.
- Ejaculating in your boss’ coffee every morning seems like a way to get on the fast track to a very bad quarterly performance report.
- Automation is coming for a lot of our jobs, including those of us engaged in the ecclesiastical arts. Sorry, JD. 🙁
- This Week in Charts: Ranking NFL teams by stability and volatility over the last 30 years goes about as you’d expect.
- Someone was kind enough to write up a handy guide to important plot beats of Iron Fist, so it can be happily skipped before moving on to The Defenders. The Internet shall provide.
- 3D printing is going to keep bioethicists busy for quite some time.
- Acclaimed Music accumulates ratings from a mammoth database of critics’ lists to tell you what the top-rated song of 1938 is, or the top-rated album of 1976.
- Judaism is amazing. Every question that could possibly be asked has been considered and debated, including the status self-aware robots will have once they’re sophisticated enough. The comparison to a golem is very nice.
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I have to get me one of those skelly-boys.
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