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 informative.
- This Week in Animal-Assisted Meditation: Put on some big, soft headphones, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and play this on repeat for a few minutes. You’re welcome.
- This year’s Ig Nobel Awards are here, including clicker training for surgeons, magnetic cockroaches, scrotal temperature, wombat poop, and much more.
- If you, like me, think the best part of Pokémon is naming all of your different friendos, but you’re drawing a blank sometimes, maybe it’s time to take some sage advice from grandma.
- Disney’s relationship with its past has always been fraught, but in this age of format-crossing remakes it’s interesting to note what’s being updated, what isn’t, and how thinly Disney feels it needs to engage with criticisms of the originals.
- It’s always amazing for humans to pick up allies in the animal kingdom; the great service of opossums in the fight against ticks must not go unrewarded.
- During the winter, calves wear earmuffs to prevent frostbite. You’re welcome.
- A group of players went to great lengths to carry bowls of stew across the land of Red Dead Online, fulfilling the highest potential of video games.
- When you see news about facial recognition tech being used in job applications as if one has anything to do with the other, just remember that no matter how many times tech bros invent phrenology, it’s still phrenology.
- PTBN Grand Poobah brad Hindscrooge knows that sometimes a long-term relationship can get stale, people can grow apart, and suddenly you don’t have anything in common any more. That’s why it’s so sweet when a couple can share such unforgettable experiences as identical bison attacks.
- PornWikiLeaks used to be dedicated to doxxing porn performers and siccing harrassers on them…until Bang Bros bought it and trashed its data. There is still some good in this world.
