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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Walk? Email Glenn!
- This Week in Photography: coincidences.
- It’s been widely pointed out that as pot legalization progresses, the mostly-minority folks who have been convicted of bullshit drug charges have been left to rot in prison or wait for licenses while white entrepreneurs capitalize on now-legal businesses. Oakland, notably, is trying to do something about that by putting people jailed for pot-related offenses at the front of the line for licenses to grow and sell. Well done.
- Sometimes a D&D campaign goes so, so right.
- It’s been somewhat erased by current-day hipster dudes, but The Beatles were the premier boy band of their time.
- Kids swallow the darndest things.
- This Week in Video Games: the best reason for a game you downloaded to your device to keep communicating with the outside is probably to use the user group’s spacial naviation skills as a baseline to compare to dementia patients. Well done.
- One bad way for a device to keep communicating with the outside is to force medical devices to update antivirus software while they’re in use.
- Two-thousand-year-old horse manure that might clarify Hannibal’s course through the Alps is pretty much the best tool of historical research.
- I just started listening to the Gastropod podcast this weekend, and it’s pretty great — a nice historical & scientific journey through a different food topic in each episode. The recent episode about citrus crossbreeding and how it contributed to the origins of the Italian mafia is just fascinating.
- PTB head honcho Brad Woodling would like you to know about a 15-16-foot-long alligator roaming a golf course in Florida. Because Florida.
- Meanwhile in Siberia, a fisher caught a four-thousand-year-old god. One does not play with such powerful talismans.
- The World Health Organization will not agree with calls to delay the Rio Olympics because of the Zika virus. Okay then!
- Also in the Olympics, doping athletes are still being caught from past games.
- It’s often the ordinary things that stand out the most when different cultures construct them differently, like bathrooms.
- This Week in Things Worth Knowing: whether it’s safe to use pot while pregnant, for all the wonderful things it does.
