March Madness Edition

My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week

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Sean McDevitt
March 24, 2024

The Weekly Click

Hello internet stranger,

Welcome to The Weekly Click, a weekly (shocking, I know) updated list of interesting bits on the internet that I thought I’d share.

Happy clicking!

The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon

All eyes are on college basketball’s biggest star as March Madness tips off. Is the Iowa Hawkeyes legend having a moment or leading a movement?

How one fan picked the greatest March Madness bracket ever built

In 2019, a neuropsychologist in Columbus, Ohio, picked the greatest known bracket in men's NCAA basketball history. How he pulled it off is still a mystery.

How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything

The most powerfully restrained of actors is an open book. He and wife Kirsten Dunst welcomed us into their L.A. home and to Mart, Texas, to meet his folks.

20 Iconic Things Turning 50 in 2024

There was more the '70s than just bell bottoms and Disco.

MLB Has A Gambling Problem Even If Shohei Ohtani Doesn't

You’re probably thinking right now that the hierarchy of Major League Baseball from Rob Manfred on down is in full panicked lockdown about how to handle its Shohei Ohtani problem, and you would be wrong.

Linky Goodness

Star Wars: The Acolyte trailer. The National Down Syndrome Society partnered with CoorDown, Small New York, actor and model Madison Tevlin, and others to create this hard-hitting piece about the various misconceptions about Down syndrome. Claiming to be from their 1968 album Booty Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel singing "Baby Got Back" is hilarious. Why you have no friends. Bridgerton Season 3 Sneak Peak. Jimmy Kimmel sent a crew to a MAGA rally to see if any of them could answer questions on a citizenship test. Hans Zimmer and a group of musicians perform the Dune soundtrack live. Be sure to watch singer Loire Cotler do that piercing chant (you know the one). Why is the world losing color? Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver trailer. M. Emmet Walsh, who specialized in playing good old boys with bad vibes and starred in Blade Runner, Blood Simple, and, more recently, Knives Out has passed away at 88. Today’s lyrics are pathetically bad. Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world's first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan at 100. People who have worked for Trump don’t like him much. Doctor Who Disney+ Trailer. After months of speculation about her health, Kate Middleton released a video revealing that she has been diagnosed with cancer.

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