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!
- RIP Muhammad Ali, black, confident, cocky.
- There’s a lot of outrage about the rapist given a light sentence becuase of the potential “severe impact” of a prison sentence, obviously deservedly so, since the whole thing has been a real shitshow. The impact statement by his victim, meanwhile, is just staggeringly powerful. Seriously.
- The pitch session for Animaniacs sure was exciting. I myself will never be moored again.
- The Fourier transform enables data compression and more, so you can have (among other things) audio and image files that aren’t huge. Thanks, Fourier transform!
- Someday, after the apocalypse claims most of us (come on, meteor!), an intrepid band of survivors will have to journey through all sorts of danger to get to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, home to a huge archive of the world’s plant diversity. Best of luck rebooting Earth’s plant life to save what remains of humanity.
- JT Rozzero sends word of the intimate bond of adult breastfeeding. You know what? I’m not here to judge.
- Whatever social media outlet is newest to you may very well be the one where you can finally be yourself (!!).
- Bad science and xenophobia are what did MSG in.
- A PET scan might be able to tell how likely someone in a vegetative state is to recover.
- Thank goodness medieval scholars recorded the rabbit wars. Thank you for your service.
- This Week in 3D Printing: you can print in all sorts of materials, so why not print in gummy?
