Sheep Invade Madrid

Sheep invade Madrid, Japan's whiskey win, One World Trade Center opens and more in our weekly look at the web

Last Sunday, over 2,000 sheep were herded through the bustling Spanish capital in an effort to raise awareness about grazing and animal migration rights. Traditional sheep rearing—a dearly held Spanish tradition—is threatened by industrial agriculture and urban sprawl, a result of swelling population growth. Certain shepherding routes date back 800 years, and shepherds and activists alike halted traffic as they passed through the city’s busiest …

A Ship Too Big to be Photographed

Sheep invade Madrid, Japan's whiskey win, One World Trade Center opens and more in our weekly look at the web

At more than 530 yards long and 80 yards wide, the Prelude is officially the largest ship in the world. Built to refine oil, the ship is so big in fact, that it’s not possible to be photographed in its entirety—it took photographer Stephen Mallon two days and a thousand pictures to create a single, stitched-together image. The New York Times explains the monstrous vessel—currently …

The Internet Arcade

Sheep invade Madrid, Japan's whiskey win, One World Trade Center opens and more in our weekly look at the web

The non-profit Internet Archive is well-known for its Wayback Machine, which lets users see older, archived versions of web pages—allowing us to gawk at what Amazon looked like in 1995 or “Thefacebook” in 2004. The Internet Archive’s most recent addition, however, is a bit out of their usual domain (excuse the pun). They’ve just added 900 video games spanning the ’70s to the ’90s that …