It’s Sunday and it’s getting to be damn near the middle of August. Where has the summer gone? Oh yeah. It went out of our sweat glands thanks to the long period of sweltering in June and July. Mother Nature is a bitch. The weekend will be nice. Pleasant, even. But there’s still time for a trip around the World Wide Web of Information Superhighway global network. Your journey awaits below.

Curiosity on Mars
Many years of work paid off (13:22)
The landing
Comic

The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade

The faces of synchronized swimming

Rusty model cars (3:53)

Why I don’t read directions

12 baseball feats that only happened once
12 more

The very first website

The (Secret) city of London (4:48)

10 fascinating and unexpected origins of words

Kinetic wave sculptures

Animation
Textually Active (2:59)
Batman: Dark Knightfall (6:17)
Concrete walls project – Herokid (4:26)

Music
The sad story of Lou Gramm
Before: Midnight Blue
In April, 1997 – brain tumor
After: Waiting for a Girl Like You

Quickies
Melting Statue of Liberty (0:28)
Ragu childhood (0:30)
The screaming shark (0:48)

Jiffs

Beer
Cans of the Month
Blindman (0:46)
Red Stripe – Big Word (0:31)

Antarctic snow chopper

How fiber optic cables work (5:36)

SR 5096 – unbreakable glass (6:00)

 The Bat Whispers – 1930 film cut in the style of the new Batman (2:19)

The Ouya game console (2:09)
Ouya Kickstarter video (2:28)

Water in zero gravity (5:20)

Coolest police chase ever (3:51)

Console Wars (2:10)

Pure Michigan – Traverse City (1:27)

Vertigo and cleavage (1:34)

Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town (3:03)