Let's get the "Word on the Web" and check out some recent topics of interest and discussion from the tech, literary, library, and arts and entertainment intersections of the World Wide Web that happened in July 2015.

• The American Library Association (ALA) debuted a new initiative this week, the Programming Librarian website. They plan to provide resources, connections, and opportunities to help libraries fill their roles as centers of cultural and civic life.
   
• Microsoft released their newest operating system, Windows 10, this week. Whether that's a cause for joy or sadness? Well, the jury is still out on that...
   
• In a landmark move from the U.S. Senate, the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) was finally passed. NEA Today went on to report, "By an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 81 to 17, the Senate approved a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that takes a major step in closing the door on the disastrous 'test, blame and punish' legacy of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), passed in 2002."
   
• Comics Alliance uncovered some of the strangest and most wonderful facts from more than fifty years of Marvel Comics history.
   
• BBC Culture ranked the 100 Greatest American Movies. How many films have you seen in this list and do you agree with their rankings?
   
• Have you been watching the new hacktivist techno thriller Mr. Robot? It's possibly paranoid creator recently spoke about the evils of Facebook and Hollywood.
   
• Pacific Standard predicts that libraries will be the future of manufacturing in the United States due to the increase in makerspaces and 3D printing capabilities.
   
• The LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) blog talks about dates, formatting, and the frustrations of ambiguous metadata in another one of their excellent and educational blog posts.
   
• Finally, this past week was the 30th anniversary of Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The LA Weekly looked backed with an extensive photo slideshow of shooting locations throughout Los Angeles, comparing the shots from the film and the way the locations look thirty years later.
  

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