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.
- If you had Labor Day off, I hope you enjoyed the long weekend.
- A hard drive containing works Terry Pratchett left unfinished at his death was recently run over by a steamroller according to his wishes. Is it selfish to think of not complying with that sort of dying wish?
- This might be the best bookshelf I’ve seen since the ones that’re painstakingly organized by spine color.
- The ol’ Walk has mentioned the labor and urban planning problems brought about by the hypothetical widespread adoption of self-driving cars, but sometimes they’re really thrown into stark relief.
- We can all spice up our photo shoots with heaps and heaps of bees(?).
- I did not know that there’re albino trees.
- This Week in Time Travel: A 1937 painting of (a fancifully inaccurate vision of) an event from the 1630s totally features a dude reading something on a smartphone.
- There’s a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle of the color selection menu from photo editors.
- This Week in Fun Art Gallery Activities: Children recreating famous paintings seems like a rich vein of cute goofs. As long as it’s not, like, Guernica.
- This Week in Recontextualized Music: “Jolene” transposed from 45 to 33 rpm is an amazing work of art. I mean, “Jolene” at regular speed is a damn fine work of art, but the description really nails what makes the slowed-down version so gripping.
- Sometimes adopted kids look for their birth parents anywhere and everywhere.
- Many of us played tag as children. It turns out that it gets a little more intricate when played by adult parkour enthusiasts.
- All hail Matilda Jones, the new queen of England. It occurs to me that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a rather better basis for a system of government than some current systems.
- I think we should hear out the mayor of Hell, Michigan on some of his more controversial ideas.
- Marriage counseling from the days before women’s lib seems like a scary prospect.
- We need something positive these days, in this time of great strife and doom. Let’s close out with a llama costume contest, shall we? Vote for your favorites in the comments! [/plug]
First off, the Minnesota Fair is the king of the Midwest. I’ve heard only Texas is better in the country. Screw Iowa.
Overall llama balloting, Steve Edition:
1) Motorcycle
2) Taco Llama with Taco John Potato Olé handler