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.
- Hey! I managed to do another podcast! My brother and I got into the weeds a little on the latest season of Star Trek: Discovery. I promise there are things I like very much.
- Robots are coming for our jobs — which doesn’t have to be frightening as long as the revolution comes first — and since they’re collectively very good at multitasking, they’re also mastering the bottle toss at the same time.
- Your cat deserves the same furniture you do. Of course, most of us just give all of our existing furniture to our cats.
- This Week in Good Dogs: Who’s a good dog? This dog who wants to join your D&D party is a good dog.
- A lock of Charlotte Brontë’s hair has been located, and you know what that means: we can now clone her. We can create an entire park centered on the Brontësaurus Rex. Listen, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about whether we could, is all.
- When was the last time you heard about the tragedy that is a Great Man of Popular Culture having his career stripped away just because he’s an abuser or a bigot? For me, it was before I heard about Mel Gibson’s new movie that’s literally about a family at the center of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Look, I get that it’s easy to think of the strawman of cancel culture, where one offense gets someone shunned, but so many people have told us exactly who they are over and over and over again, like Mel Gibson, with no effort at amends and no effort at teshuvah of any kind. So if he doesn’t get shunned, who can? Then again, here I am talking about this fakakta movie, so there’s capitalism for you.
- This Week in Poetry: A letter to the person who carved his initials into the oldest living longleaf pine in north america.
- If you take the Star Wars cantina band cue and slow it down, what you get still sounds like cantina music…but for a very different kind of cantina, in a different kind of movie.
- I’m probably late to the party here, but the Spider-Ham short is a damn delight.
- Divorce, Klingon style is quick and definitive. You know how it is, you start a relationship thinking that your love is as great as that of Kahless and Lukara, that your two hearts will beat together and fill the heavens with a terrible sound, only to find out that you’ve been tricked by a lowly petaQ.
- This Week in Neural Net Processors, Learning Computers: A neural net has created the next big country hit, “You Can’t Take My Door.”
- Endgame was good and all, but it was definitely hobbled by the straight agenda (and most of the Thor goofs). Some people are still putting in good work that needs doing with the movie, though.
