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 informative.
- You’ve seen the final battle from Avengers: Endgame with its original orchestral score. That’s great and all…but have you ever wondered what it would be like with the greatest musical accompaniment in the history of motion picture arts and/or sciences?
- Bless the folks over at the Internet Archive, guardians not only of web archives and DOS games playable in-browser, but also of a hundred thousand audio recordings from the Boston Public Library.
- The 1619 podcast is a fantastic distillation of the issues covered by the written version. The third episode, on how much distinctly American music was derived from African music in general, and the invention of blackface minstrel shows in particular, is a fantastic use of the medium.
- The Ikea Tarot has crucial insights for you and your life.
- Animator Daniel Sousa’s Feral is a haunting and entrancing look at one feral child, conveyed with beautiful animation.
- Corporate advertising has to shift with its intended audience to be effective in different contexts, which leads to things like Wendy’s posting memes on Tumblr and clapping back to people on Twitter, which seems fun and all until you think about it a bit.
- The 2019 Microphotography Competition winners offer dazzling sights from embryos of the sea to mineral compounds to vitamin C to snowflakes. (Warning: two of the photos are of spiders.)
- As Disney finishes absorbing Fox’s film library into its gaping maw, more and more Fox titles are subject to longstanding policies like sequestration in the ol’ Disney Vault.
- After several years of trying, Sony has come to the decision that it can’t be a cable company after all.
- This Week in Calming Television: Heartland appears to be a Canadian program that has run for 13 seasons and on which nothing has ever happened.
- The LuLaRoe era may be drawing to a close.
- I believe you can do anything if you work hard and believe in yourself. You can change your life, you can help other people, and you can make a payphone run Linux.
