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? Comment on the Walk post at the Place to Be Nation Facebook page, or find Glenn on the social media platform of your choice!
- Happy Pride Month! Here’s a gofundme retirement fund for Miss Major, one of the surviving heroes of Stonewall.
- A small book publisher in Iceland prints books in batches of 69, on the full moon, and burns unsold copies. It’s like the creation of each book is a powerful summoning rite — each book can only be available for a brief flash of time, or else the power of the ritual is diminished.
- Also in books, the first of April has passed, but make sure to pencil Edible Book Day into your 2018 datebook!
- Okay, fine, I’ll have one link about covfefe — no one can seem to agree on precisely how to pronounce it, because of the rarity of -efe endings in English, without even considering how a lot of people seem to drop the V right out because of the awkwardness of putting voiced and unvoiced fricatives next to each other.
- Frozen hash browns are being recalled because of contamination with golf ball shards. I see how you’d get those confused.
- Hazel Scott was better at playing two pianos at once than you or I, dear reader, are likely to ever be at anything.
- I, for one, have gone back and forth on capitalizing “internet” and ultimately landed on lower case; now it seems the tipping point is at hand.
- This Week in Wednesday Walk Top Tips: Use AdBlock settings to get around sites that whine and complain about you using AdBlock. Except Place to Be Nation Dot Com, whitelist that one!!
- We need whistleblowers now more than ever, but if you’re going to leak something you need to know how to avoid being exposed. Including, one supposes, not leaking to parties as sloppy as The Intercept apparently was.
- PTBN head honcho Brad Hindscrooge sends word of an astounding set of new and unopened vintage sports cards that some dude found in his aunt’s attic. Man, my grandpa ran a store in the 40s/50s/60s and I’ll never sniff a vintage vault like that.
- Lab rats will free each other from cages if they can, officially making them more humane than most humans.
- The best tattoos are the ones that do beautiful things with scars that people would otherwise be really self-conscious about.
- Everything is better with googley eyes. I would accept that as an axiom.
- I have no idea how people come up with the energy to do cool shit. There are people out there making amazing-looking miniature swords by pounding nails flat, and knives & axe heads from former railroad spikes. After you’re done beating your swords into plowshares, beat your nails into tiny swords.
- Paul Allen’s company has been building an airplane/airborne rocket launch platform that’s bigger than the Spruce Goose.
- Sometimes it’s helpful to adopt an alternative perspective. Take a break for a few minutes, do some breathing exercises, and live at the bottom of a water bucket with lots of friendly animals running by to drink.
