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!
- There is liquid water flowing on Mars. That’s…amazing.
- Via PTBN papa bear JT Rozzero: get ready to live the pug life, featuring pugs cosplaying as all your favorite classic rappity stars. Someone give 2-PUG some treats, he’s such a good boy.
- There are three captions that can go with any New Yorker cartoon ever.
- As someone who knows approximately fuck-all about chess, the subtleties of movie chess are totally lost on me absent this sort of explication.
- Tons of people photographed this past weekend’s lunar eclipse. You may have given it a go too.
- The refusal and foot-dragging of many nations to take in refugees from the war in Syria is troubling to say the least. Meanwhile in Germany, musicians who found themselves among the refugees have formed the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra.
- This Week in Biology: it turns out that nature has mechanical gears too.
- A five-year-old girl recently discovered a new dinosaur and named it after herself. That should just about do it for life accomplishments.
- As part of the 30th-anniversary celebration of Super Mario Bros., its creators reminisced about the creation of world 1-1, including some of the subtle ways that it was designed to be an implicit tutorial.
- If you experience pain in the area of your appendix, and on the way to the hospital the pain is worse when you hit a speed bump, that might be a diagnostic criterion for appendicitis. This seems like one of those things that’s generally not useful to know until the one moment when it’s very useful to know.
- “Happy Birthday” is officially no longer under copyright; someone notify whoever creates alternative songs for restaurants.
