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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Walk? Email Glenn!
- In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Groundhog Day festivities were canceled when the local weather-watching woodchuck died. Get ready for six more weeks of T H E S C R E A M I N G V O I D O F D E A T H.
- This Week in Good Causes: a church run by a bunch of bigots has gone to public auction due to unpaid bills, and The Ali Forney Center wants to buy it. And they’re almost at their fundraising goal!
- B.o.B., an artist whom I will admit to never having heard of until a couple days ago, is literally a flat-earther. Thank goodness we have Neil Tyson to throw down on this stuff. (That much is fun and all, but it seems B.o.B is also a fairly vicious anti-Semite.)
- I am pointedly not part of the anti-selfie agenda, being as it is yet another outgrowth of “kids these days” bullshit. (“Kids these days” is always bullshit.) But please, please, be safe.
- If you ever wanted to see a realtime visualization of wind patterns anywhere on the friggin’ planet, boy howdy does the Wednesday Walk have your hookup.
- In mass-market liquor, as in mass-market just about anything else, a few companies have consolidated their way into your heart.
- There’s a lot to be said for diversity in media. Idris Elba’s basically got it, though.
- For those of you who need to fill out a profile on a dating site in hopes of finding true love, it turns out that autocomplete may be your best bet.
- There’s some good news, no matter how much is left to do, on prison reform.
- This Week in Mashups: great art and brand logos.
- This Week in Things We’re Trying to Use to Treat Cancer: fecal bacteria. This could, of course, also be This Week in Fecal Bacteria.
- Somehow righteous stories about douchebag restaurant customers getting karmic payback never quite get old.
