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!
- Won’t sci-fi writers please think of the scientists?
- Enjoy all the squid you want…just make sure it’s not getting something out of the deal too.
- I’m sure there are a million jillion YouTube channels that want to show you basic cooking techniques, but Gordon Ramsay’s seems pretty engaging. (Except for his scrambled eggs–from the video they look like lukewarm, runny, undercooked eggs. Which is fine if that’s your taste.)
- In Los Angeles, a skyscraper will soon feature a horrifying glass slide suspended 70 stories above the ground. Mm hmm.
- Try to force Niagara Falls through a straw and you’ll have to deal with some massive nuclear reactions that would ultimately render the planet uninhabitable. I don’t know if it says more about What If? or the people who write in to it that most of the questions result in that basic scenario.
- This Week in Customer Service: it’s generally considered less than ideal for an airline to pee on people’s luggage. I’m not here to judge if that’s your thing, but consent is crucial.
- This Week in OUTRAGE: cheating scandals are now rocking the worlds of professional bridge and professional crossword puzzling. I am shocked and appalled.
- Now that the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has been taken back from the right-wing extremists who invaded it, it’s time to inspect the facilities for lasting effects of the mess they made.
- The “Thriller” demo from before it became “Thriller” is kind of a trip.
- Good for California: high schools will be required to include consent in health classes. You’d think it’d be a pretty important part of sex ed anywhere, but here we are.
- This Week in the History of Hair Styles: Big hair and makeup were considered masculine, and therefore signifiers of status and supremacy and all the other lovely things men get, until Marie Antoinette started the fashions among women and they took on some of the connotations they have today.
