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.
- Give me all the breakdowns of the Into the Spider-Verse animation styles.
- RIP Maury Laws, composer & arranger for Rudolph and other Rankin-Bass shows.
- This Week in Internet History: In the 70’s, every individual router & workstation on the internet fit on a paper map, as opposed to a modern map of the internet, which would just be a giant HERE THERE BE DRAGONS design.
- If you’re ever in the UK and want to know where you can find a pub, just consult this handy map.
- You know all of those heartwarming human-interest stories about little kids who sell lemonade to pay for a classmate’s wheelchair, or big GoFundMes for things like medical expenses and teaching supplies? People helping people is awesome, but when it’s needed because of grotesque governmental and corporate policies, it’s disturbing. This is just something that I was reminded of while browsing this new Kickstarter for journalism, where you pick and choose specific stories you want to see reported on.
- This Week in Shared Universes: There are moments when everything snaps into place, when you suddenly see the connections throughout seemingly disparate entities, when you finally understand.
- Ring the liberty bell y’all, hovercraft moose hunting season has officially begun.
- {Warning: body horror, bees?) In Taiwan, a poor unfortunate person went to her doctor for an eye infection, and then found out that her eye infection was BEES — LITERAL BEES. You have PTBN Waning Poobah Brad Hindscrooge to blame for the appearance of this torrid tale.
- This Week in Phone Designs: I heard you like screens, so I put another screen in your screen.
- It has been twenty years since Fabio killed a goose with his face. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?
- Speaking of iconic moments in my generation’s childhood, there’s always time to talk about the class implications of Marge Simpson’s Chanel suit.
- Still speaking of my generation’s childhood (does any generation truly stop speaking of its childhood?), it’s long past time for everyone to acknowledge that DARE was a useless program and a massive waste of money, just another arm of the wrecklessly cruel and wasteful war on (some people who use some) drugs.
- A surgeon breaks down wrestling injuries. Injuries come and go and time marches on, but Sid Vicious’ broken leg is still one of the nastiest clips.
- A few months ago I posted a story about a theater that’s long been a local landmark in my hometown, or was, until it burned down. It now seems that that was the work of some dirtbag teens, for whom it was the beginning of a string of arsons. I know I’m old and all, but when I was their age I was so busy listening to Nine Inch Nails to channel my feelings, I absolutely did not have the time to commit a string of arsons.
- Of course, even more notable and disturbing is the ongoing string of arsons of black churches, including at least three in short succession just in one community in Louisiana.
