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!
- This Week in Art Out in the Open: Simon Beck meticulously tramples fresh vistas of snow or sand to create huge, incredible designs.
- It seems the Star Trek family of TV shows is leaving Amazon Prime Video in a few weeks. Don’t be surprised if it all falls off of Netflix in the not-too-distant future as well, with the new series coming to CBS All Access next year. Watch ’em while you got ’em, especially in this 50th-anniversary year.
- RIP Roger Charlet, killed by cops using the mythical “resisting arrest” to cover themselves. (Here’s your periodic reminder that law enforecement is not one of the top ten most dangerous jobs in the US.)
- As will be mentioned on the upcoming episode of The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, the slight delay to The X-Files‘ premiere caused by the NFC Championship Game resulted in a whole lot of unhappy people who care not at all for football.
- It’s time to move the Madden version of the Rams to LA.
- This Week in Creeps: college student gets caught watching porn on his laptop during class. With the volume turned up. And with people sitting behind him. Why…why…good grief.
- A one-time concentration camp on a European island might become a luxury resort. That’s…unfortunate, to say the least.
- This Week in Truck Ads: a real dump truck was set up to work via remote control and given to a four-year-old girl. Well done.
- Flying Toasters is back!
- This Week in Jobs People Have: Prison Librarian Edition!
- This Week in Crowdfunding Initiatives: the power of magnetism promises us bonsai trees in floating pots.