She Smiled Edition

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!

  1. Trump Plots Against His Enemies. It’s incredibly easy to understand. Donald Trump and his supporters remain the biggest threat to America and to the concept of liberal democracy itself the world has ever seen. RELATED: The Answer Makes Sense Only When You Know What the Question Is

  2. Congressperson Raskin received a thank-you letter from Representative George Santos for being one of the 31 Democrats who voted against kicking him out of Congress. Raskin did Santos the favor of correcting and sending it back.

  3. Five takeaways from this week’s off-year elections, where abortion rights fueled big Democratic wins. (OK… no more politics)

  4. I love this song. I just hate that he never tells you what he was doing, where he was, or at the very least how far he was from any large cities or landmarks.

  5. Antidepressants or Tolkien? asks players to distinguish between the names of elven-kings and drug names. I can only think of Stephen Colbert and maybe my pharmacist father, who can breeze through this. (Hi, Dad!)

  6. Robert from IlliniBoard on Daydreams. (I can’t believe that happened).

  7. The final KISS concert on the End of the Road tour will be live on Pay-Per-View. Even as a huge KISS fan, I will not be spending any money to watch this. I mean, if you do, great. For me, I’ll just watch it on YouTube about 24 to 48 hours later. Also, if you think there’s going to be a bunch of special guests… you poor sweet summer child…

  8. The Whimsical Web: a hand-picked collection of websites that have some extra personality, fun, and weirdness. (Psst, have you read my standard disclaimer?)

  9. According to The Hollywood Reporter, SAG’s TV/Theatrical Committee unanimously voted to approve a new contract. The actor’s strike is over. RELATED: Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost

  10. I'll confess to not having watched much Saturday Night Live at all this season, but this sketch—Washington's Dream—is pretty funny.

  11. VFTTD is an acronym for Villains Falling To Their Deaths. And it's a Youtube playlist (thirty strong and counting) of, you guessed it, villains falling to their deaths in horrific yet somehow mesmerizing and stress-relieving ways. SPOILER ALERT. YMMV.

  12. The People Who Ruined the Internet. This headline could credibly apply to many individuals and assorted groups thereof: social media executives, crypto influencers … your weird uncle with all the conspiracy theories. But this particular article blames the dark art of search engine optimization for the decline of today’s internet, and I’m not sure it’s wrong.

  13. Rotten Tomatoes compiled a list of the "100 Worst Movies of All Time." Now, before you start complaining that your favorite flop didn't make the cut, note that all the films were required to have scored less than 6% on the Tomatometer, based on at least 20 reviews. There are a lot of movies I’ve never even heard of here.

  14. Reacting to YouTube's crackdown on ad blocking, people are uninstalling popular blockers in droves—and installing alternatives that fly under Google's radar. The circle of liiiiffeeee….

  15. 40% of people willfully choose to be ignorant. Here’s why. We all have a place in our lives where we look the other way and pretend everything is fine.

  16. How to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats.

  17. It is November, so Elf will be playing on TV at pretty much all hours of the day until 2024. Having watched the movie multiple times, have you stopped thinking about Charlotte Dennon? I didn’t think so.

  18. DreamerJazz covers “Now And Then” like the early Beatles. I really like this.

  19. The James Webb telescope is a giant leap in the history of stargazing. Our view of the universe will never be the same.

  20. Looks like Automattic is de-staffing Tumblr (moving folks to other projects) and basically putting the site on life support. There was a time when Tumblr was spoken of in the same sentence as Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, and WordPress. I still think Automattic is going to end up buying Twitter/X.

  21. Why We Idolize Assholes

  22. The first teaser trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire centers on a (literally) killer storm that descends on the city, which apparently carries something known as the “death chill.” Who you gonna call? I haven’t even seen Ghostbusters: Afterlife, so…

  23. Matt Birchler’s thoughts on the Humane Ai Pin. I’m not excited by this at all.

  24. Brian Edwards, a visiting research fellow at the University of West of England, has found a photo in an online auction that was the basis for the iconic album cover of Led Zeppelin's fourth album. That’s kinda cool.

  25. Dear St. Louis…

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