Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.
- We still need your advice questions for Steve Wille’s guest appearances on the ol’ Spectacular — big or small, we’ll consider them all! Email us or go to our Ask.fm page to send your questions today. (Your name won’t be read on the show without permission (so tell us what to call you if anything), and Ask.fm allows anonymous submissions.)
- For instance, were someone to write in to us and ask, we would advise anyone to not listen to Gwyneth Paltrow and shove coffee up their ass. I don’t feel I need a link here.
- This Week in Music: I am a sucker for major/minor key conversions, and Smells Like Teen Spirit attracts them like flies.
- For centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, almost no one in Europe (especially northern Europe) saw an elephant firsthand. And yet they persisted in drawing them, often gloriously. The more Seussical the better!
- This Week in Studies Confirming Apparent Truths: Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly. There’s no scale on which macho bullshit doesn’t degrade living conditions and kill people.
- Speaking of, even as more men in positions of power or celebrity are revealed as abusive trash, it can be helpful to circle back on some. One Charlie Rose staffer’s firsthand experiences are instructive.
- Taxidermy could stand to be a little more surreal, for sure.
- This Week in Cartography: World’s Shortest Borders Edition.
- I know it’s been passed around a lot lately, but if you haven’t seen this video about how post-production editing restructured Star Wars from a stale B-movie to the movie we all know today, you should, just to sppreciate the skills of Marcia Lucas et al.
- Sickness behavior, the urge to slow down and stop while getting over a minor illness like a cold, is part of the natural immune-system reaction.
- Amazingly, someone has unearthed a Black Mirror episode from 1951.
- Remember a few years ago when slowing down audio was all the rage? (I don’t technically meditate, but sometimes I try to breathe and relax to the Jurassic Park theme slowed down one thousand percent. I’ve likely mentioned this before.) It turns out that if you do it to the grunt that propelled Tim Allen to stardom, you get the cries of a thousand damned souls yearning for a release they will never be granted again, aka my internal monologue.
- This Week in Calming Animal Videos, Cyclone Blast Edition: Dog takes herself sledding; joy ensues.
