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.
- Share your favorite stories about coworkers who don’t quite know what their words mean.
- It’s absolutely shocking to hear what sounds like a good idea from the federal government of the United States in this hellyear of 2017, but if they want to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes to make them less addictive…okay?
- No worries, though, needless cruelty is still completely in style.
- The patent trolls trying to take over the rights to the podcast format and collect rent from the 87% of the human race that has a podcast by now (stand by for the return of mine any month now) lost its appeal of the prior case it lost in 2015.
- Adults turning kids on to books is my jam.
- I’m not sure, but there may be people out there buying into this sticker used to tape a dick shut. Suffice to say it seems like a very bad idea to tape a dick shut. And of course the ads for this thing come with the usual anti-condom nonsense — folks, condoms are fine, people who whine to get out of wearing them are lying and should not get to go to bone down town. (Link is NSFW for cartoon dicks.)
- The best bomb scares are the ones whipped up over time capsules.
- This Week in Bad Business Plans: You don’t get to reclaim the swastika by slapping a rainbow on it. Seriously. (Warning: white supremacist symbols, because that’s what the damn swastika is.)
- It’s sad to see a dude who created a fun and interesting Facebook event for his daughter’s baptism forced to revise it to something typical and boring.
- The popular consciousness spends so much time dwelling on the mass extinction event that “killed the dinosaurs” 65 million years ago that older, bigger ones miss out.
- Feed any sufficiently large data set into a neural network and you get all sorts of quality names out of it, including beers of all stripes. I can’t wait to hear the Lucha Undead review of the Blangelfest amber ale, or Black Sink Stout.
- Also in neural net deep-dreamed names, make sure to visit the fanciful town of Crisklethe’s Chorn next time you’re in Fantasy England.
- Good news everyone! Bees are making a comeback from Colony Collapse Disorder! They’re not quite back yet, but they’re on the way.
- If your greatest dream is a coffee cup in the shape of a horn, well, I guess I’m not here to judge.
- Booze is about as old as humanity.
- Once self-driving cars replace taxi drivers (you know, people with jobs who get to do things with the money they make from their jobs), someone’s still going to have to clean up all of the puke people leave in cabs. (Warning: autoplay video.)
- This Week in Pool Accessories: If you have a pool, please don’t kill frogs with it.
- The Purrli cat simulator is what I for one will be using every time I’m at the office.
