Welcome back and welcome to May!
Have I complained yet about how busy this month is for me? I’m already looking forward to Memorial Day weekend. A friend and I are doing a staycation to just read and relax, and then my brother and sister-in-law visit!
Keeping my fingers crossed for a very chill summer.
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The Women’s Game Fest is running now through Halloween on Itchio.
As an aside, I totally understand those that may not want to support the site. Almost a year ago, Itchio started deindexing NSFW/adult games, which we discussed on the site, I think in a Wednesday Links post. I’m kind of unsure what became of that (did it fully stick? did they restructure how they handle adult games?) and couldn’t find a clear answer while googling.
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I’ll be in conversation with author Mary Berman at Lovestruck Books on May 20th! We’ll be discussing her debut Until Death, which is Gothic horror meets wedding planning. Come say hey!
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From EC Spurlock: This site is fascinating – it shows where your current location originally was in terms of the ancestral continent Pangea, as well as what your original altitude was. TIL Atlanta was originally 15 feet below sea level!
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Lastly, did you hear there’s going to be a Spaceballs sequel? Only a teaser, so far, has been shared.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
@ECSpurlock, I barely understand this map and can’t find altitude. But it makes me smile because when I was in high school, continental drift was dismissed as “just a theory”, and not a particularly good one.
@LML click on your approximate location on the main map and the map will shift to show you where in Pangaea it originally was and a table will come up to show the altitude. They are working on added features to adjust the zoom speed so you can pause it at any point in geological time.
@LML: My sophomore year in college, I had to take a required science course. As a non-STEM major, I took the easiest one I could find. It was half basic rocketry, half plate tectonics. The rocketry portion was understandable — the school was still known then as Florida Technological University, and it was established as a feeder school for the aerospace industry — Kennedy Space Center being only 30 miles down the road. But it was the then-new discipline of plate tectonics that really hooked me. I was fascinated by it and still am to this day as a way of showing how science evolves. How a theory can go from a fringe idea derided by the establishment to being the establishment.
@Sandra, what a combination! Rocketry and plate tectonics. I would (college & now) enjoy taking a course like that.
@EC Spurlock, thank you for explaining. I’ll definitely spend more time with the map.