Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Here you may find some things that amuse, some that titillate, and the occasional link that provokes. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Wednesday Walk? Email Glenn!
- If I may shed the sarcasm and cynicism for a moment, this woman is sweet, and these kids are sweet, and we should just take a couple of minutes to acknowledge that.
- A grieving woman has been granted permission to marry her dead fiancé. Let’s stave off the jokey-jokey fun time for just another second, for grief takes many shapes.
- Now then. Let’s investigate the grammatical structure of doge. The distinction between first-generation and second-generation internet language is particularly interesting.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- RIP Mae Keane, the last of the Radium Girls.
- The Terminator theme is in an unusual time signature and Slate is ON IT.
- Outfit your toilet to look like the Sarlacc pit. In your septic tank, your wastes will find a new definition of pain and suffering as they are slowly absorbed back into the soil over a thousand years. Just don’t let anything crawl back out like that stupid Boba Fett crap from the novels.
- 30000-year-old permafrost has yielded another impressive virus. There are how many movies about why this is a bad idea?
- Why would you subject yourself to simulated labor pain, like, why would a person do that. No, it’s not made up or exaggerated, ya goons. At least their wives are supportive.
- You have most likely never seen cello action this hardcore.
- One of the biggest supporters of the Wednesday Walk Institute lo these many years, Jordan Duncan, sends in my new jam.
- Another great friend of the Wednesday Walk Foundation and my esteemed High Spot co-conspirator Steve Wille brings word of 19th-century vegetarian personal ads. Do you understand the music of the pudding-slice?
- You didn’t have to wait another four years–Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are BACK!
- Parents, take heart: your toddlers can totally get Nirvana.
- Hey everyone, it’s daylight savings time! You’re probably much happier than I am to see the sun!
- The Paralympics are on, and you can get a short tour of the happenings so far.
- This article about Disney and autism has been making the rounds, and not without good reason.
- The current heir to the Ottoman Empire is a US Army veteran who worked at a library in New York.
- Happy 30th birthday to the CD!
