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!
- In the way-back wastelands of 1990, id Software started work on a PC version of Super Mario Bros. 3.
- We’re seeing a really strong El Niño this year, and you’ve most likely been feeling the combination of that with the now-normal climate change.
- This Week in Histories of Everything: the USB port, our savior from serial ports and parallel ports and game ports and firewire and and and…
- Many Icelanders have flocked to Zuism, including the worship of ancient Sumerian gods and the promise of a payout, the only reasons anyone follows a religion, I assume.
- Clear cola came decades earlier than the 90s heyday you and I might recall, thanks to the covert efforts of one Soviet general.
- How, in our greatly advanced age/nightmare economy, are there still so darn many mattress stores?
- This Week in Wearable Technology: from the concept that brought you the Fitbit, now comes SexFit, a Fitbit for your junk (so long as your junk happens to include a penis). Do not connect this item to your Facebook account. (Warning: autoplay video.)
- The post-antibiotic world is just one of many looming catastrophes to look forward(?) to.
- This Week in Holiday Traditions: The Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog has arrived once more.
- During the holiday season, it’s important to remember why you shouldn’t give money to the Salvation Army.
- It’s also important to remember to be extra nice to retail workers during this, the season of doom for retail workers. I mean, always be nice to workers, but especially during these weeks we’re all just trying to get through.
- This Week in 3D Printing: use cutting-edge technology to create fantastically intricate sugar creations.
- This Week in Things I Meant to Put in Here a Month Ago: Daniel Craig seems like a right on dude.
- I did not know that the Columbia Pictures logo was created from an actual photo of an actual person.
