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.
- The internet is a wonderful place, full of lovely and supporting people who will inspire artists to complete works such as the Lisa Frank Baphomet.
- I’m proud to report that the perfect response to catcalling has been discovered.
- There is video of folks breakdancing in 1894. Really.
- In the hellish nightmare that is this year, lots of people are finding out that they have Nazis and/or Nazi sympathizers (a distinction that makes little to no difference) in their families and friend groups. It can be difficult to discover this about someone you’ve been close to! Some people model appropriate and healthy responses, though, such as the father who publicly disowned and denounced his fascist son.
- The new Madden game apparently has a poignant story mode about grief, loss, and bros writing each other songs.
- This Week in Entrepreneurship: Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer got a lot of patronizing, sexist responses to their website…until they invented an imaginary cofounder, “Keith Mann,” who’s shockingly gotten a much more respectful reception.
- If you’re in Boston, you need to go to the potato monument.
- Check out the artistry of the World Taxidermy Championships, this week’s proof that there are championships for everything.
- Melting glaciers are probably going to reveal all sorts of things in the next several years, including missing hikers.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (Warning: body horror)
- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest awards the worst prose, and this year’s winner is a real doozy.
- Popsicles that don’t melt solve a messy problem, and also remove the sense of panic that accompanies any icy treat.
- Say what you want about the military, but I can go along with busting some asshole jocks down to size.
- Lots of important life events are marked with parties, sometimes solemn, sometime joyful. Why should divorces be any different?
- I’m not sure what’s more amusing about this video of a rhino running down a road — the rhino’s joyful gait, or the panicked three-point turns of the human vehicles in its path.
