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!
- Sometimes you’re going through a musty old closet and you find something that’s obviously been there a long, long time. It’s somewhat less typical for that thing to be a bag of things that’ve been to the moon, including the camera that captured the one small step. That one’s a keeper.
- Sometimes you’re out and about in Tuscany with your trusty metal detector, and you find a World War II-era secret message hidden in a bullet that tells a joke about some dumb Nazis.
- For the purposes of meditation, daydreaming, or whatever else you may do with it, have 93 minutes of HD ocean footage from the bow of a ship traveling in the South China Sea.
- Meanwhile, in Canada, a councillor promised that if voter turnout increased he would set himself on fire, and now he must.
- Come to Sydney’s Nicholson Museum for the huge Lego reproduction of Pompeii, stay for the learning.
- This Week in Dinosaurs: imagine huge dinosaurs that’ve just eaten a ton of fungus that produces LSD.
- Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you do, everything’s okay, because Li’l Sebastian is alive and well.
- If you’re in a committed relationship but you cheated, once, impulsively, just lie about it. If it’s not just once and it’s not impulsive, then, well, you’ve got a bit of a problem.
- What’s a Thermomix, you might ask? I’ll pretend you asked. Simple! It’s a gangbang of kitchen appliances that’s created a futuristic robot saucepan.
- In the latest update on the adventures of Tiny Spider-Man, TSM makes a new friend.
- If you see an animal yawning, it might actually be baring its teeth and showing the strength of its jaw. Don’t assume animal behavior matches yours. Unless you sometimes bare your teeth and show off the strength of your jaw to ward off threats.
- This Week in Things You Can Buy for Yourself or Your Sweetums: chain chomp earrings.
- Artist Heather Hansen creates beautiful charcoal art while sitting on a huge piece of paper.
- Science journalist Miles O’Brien, who lost his left arm last year, is in a unique position to report on advances in prosthetics.
- One might not necessarily expect the phrase “stop-motion Lego Mondrian painting” to result in a fascinating short film, but it does.
- Know your tattoo styles.
- A century ago, the designer of a beautiful typeface tossed thousands of pounds of movable type into the Thames to keep it from falling into the hands of his business partner. Now, a cadre of divers have found it; the story behind the type and its muddy fate is simply fascinating.
- Facebook has some new guidelines in place for how it’ll handle your account after you die.
- There’s a lot of speculation about how we might relate to artificial intelligences once we manage to create them. One Christian sees emerging AI as a vast sea of potential converts.
- Through an emergent mechanism that decides when harvester ants search for food, the ants invented TCP/IP.
- Whaaaaaaat’s the deeeeeeal with action movies?
