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.
- A group of flat-Earthers are looking to charter a cruise to the Antarctic ice wall. Of course, one pretty good way to see the curvature of the Earth for yourself is to go out to the middle of the ocean.
- If this is anything to go by, bailing on Orange is the New Black after season four was a good call.
- The market for llamas in the US dried up after the 2007 global economic collapse, and some of the effects of climate change have fostered parasites; between those two factors, the llama population has been going down drastically.
- Permesan cheese could be up to 20% wood, less expensive fish are mislabeled as more expensive ones, and honey is thinned out with cheap syrups. All the food you know is a lie.
- This Week in The Great British Bake-Off: Martha got married and your favorite contestants and mine were part of the occasion.
- It’s incredibly rare, but sometimes pet theft is the right thing to do and works out for everyone.
- Sizing for women’s clothes developed in the 1940s because prior to that clothing manufacturers assumed women would just buy generic clothes and sew them to fit themselves.
- Let’s check in on YouTube for a second, which inspired one man to launch a road trip across the US to personally(?) confront people at Google headquarters(??) with the assistance of some baseball bats(!) about the deletion of his channel(?!?) — which it turns out his wife deleted. If he was willing to drive cross-country to threaten interchangable corporate folks, that’s a pretty horrifying situation for the wife.
- You too can go mudlarking on the Thames to see what random treasures wash up, and perhaps find a neolithic skull fragment.
- You see a lot of supposedly-inspirational stories about massive companies that started in people’s garages. As ever, the truth is very different and much less individualistic. As one of the replies says, the hardworking self-made man is a dangerous fairy tale.
