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.
- This Week in Streamlining Your Life: With a few simple tricks, you can automate your meals!
- The beloved Steve Wille sends word of Billy Mitchell getting busted for cheating to get his Donkey Kong record, or, at least, getting busted for using an emulator to do it.
- This Week in Music Manipulation: You know, there’s a fascinating breadth of experimentation that can happen with songs that’ve achieved ubiquity. I present to you “Wonderwall” with every other beat removed, or, “Wo er al.”
- This Week in Volunteer Journalism: An intrepid man took it upon himself to journey to the Virgin Islands to find the Marlins’ offshore headquarters. Sports!
- You may laugh at the Staples brand business scythe, but I’ve read that the confidence boost that comes with carrying, say, a sword, is real and palpable, so maybe I’ll consider some sort of blade for the next meeting I’m really dreading. (And with this, the blithe suggestion to bring a bladed weapon to work, I may have reached Peak White Guy.)
- Let’s check in on Atlantic ocean currents that distribute heat throughout a large part of the world…well that’s not looking very good at all.
- RIP seven imprisoned people wo’ve died in riots over inhumanly crual prison conditions.
- If you’re going to try some light museum robbery, and to be clear neither the Wednesday Walk nor Place to Be Nation are saying you should, it should be in the name of museum security.
- Sometimes the internet is actually good. Sometimes, rather than Gamergate domestic terrorists or actual factual neo-Nazis, the internet provides the viral sensation of the thicc sheep, the absolute unit.
- This Week in Neural Net Processors, Learning Computers: Let’s train the computers like dogs, making sure to include a script for treats so they know who’s a good little emulation, yes they ARE, yes they ARE.