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My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week
Hello internet stranger,
The Weekly Click is a weekly (shocking, I know) updated list of interesting bits on the internet that I thought I’d share.
Happy clicking!
Did you ever think we’d be listening to a brand-new Beatles song in the 21st century? Here we are. Likely the last Beatles song ever recorded: “Now and Then.” Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr turned to machine learning to piece together a finished track from an old lo-fi John Lennon recording. There’s a cool short video about the whole thing. It’s a lovely thing. Rick Beato has a cool reaction to it.
Matthew Perry, one of the stars of Friends, has died. He was only 54 years old. I’m at that age where when people my age die, it’s not entirely unexpected. So sad.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Monday Motivation, “When you take the time to sit alone with your thoughts, you can find who you want to be; not who your parents want you to be, not who your friends want you to be, and definitely not who some shyster on Instagram or TikTok wants you to be.”
Flash Gordon returns in style with a new daily comic strip.
Former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight has died at 83. He was a great basketball mind and a complete raging asshole. His players loved him. Others found his antics over the top. Jonathan Chiat didn’t care for him. Of course, we will always have the chair. (By the way, I’m pretty sure I watched this live as it happened.)
If you haven't already seen the Nile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert, it's well worth half an hour of your time!
How to win your next UNO game.
100 websites that shaped the Internet as we know it.
The trailer for the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, has been released. I haven’t seen any of this series except for the first one. Maybe I should take a look?
Dave Pell is a single-issue voter. So he made a shirt that represents that. Apparently, it’s selling like hotcakes.
I saw this last month, but I had forgotten about it. Brennan Mulligan as Donald Trump as Sauron. If you dig The Lord of the Rings, this is pretty funny.
Disney Will Soon Officially Own All of Hulu. I like the consolidation of streaming services.
Just Because Trump Does Something Doesn’t Mean It’s News. John Dickerson is incredibly intelligent and has a complete command of the current political situation in the country.
Nerdist picks the 10 greatest creative team runs of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Good list.
Elon Musk thinks the main character in Blade Runner was named “Bladerunner.” He’s such an insufferable asshole.
It seems that we're getting a Mean Girls reunion. Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, and a few more familiar faces are coming back for a series of Black Friday Walmart ads. Here’s the first one. The cast will return every Wednesday for the month of November with new ads. Great bit of nostalgia. Smart marketing.
College football’s most absurd nepotism charade has ended. Man, I remember Lovie Smith hiring his son for Illinois football, and people going nuts. I can’t believe Brian Ferentz was making close to a cool million a year.
Michigan Football’s Ridiculous, Dumb, and Unfortunately Altogether Perfect Scandal. “Parsing another team’s signals is allowed in the NCAA if you get them off a TV recording … but ‘in-person scouting’ is prohibited; Stalions seems to have tried to work around this by recruiting random people who lived in the area of other stadiums to do the job, then paying them back on Venmo—a gig economy, if you will, for football crimes.” Football crimes… heh.
Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird. Now I feel kind of blue…
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