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.
- My friends, our time has arrived. It is Fat Bear Week once again.
- Lots of us have recipes left behind by our parents and their parents. It’s pretty special to find collections going back farther than that; it’s very, very special when you uncover a collection reflecting 15 genereations of a Jewish family driven into hiding by the Spanish Inquisition.
- Also in culinary history, trying to figure out who invented ants on a log turns out to be a bit more of a rabbit hole than one might assume.
- The teal pumpkin project is trying to popularize non-candy options for kids with allergies on Halloween.
- We should all be so lucky as to have a pet loyal enough to break into your house and lay eggs right onto your bed for you.
- This Week in True Stories: Once upon a time, Adam West and Frank Gorshin were invited to a party that turned out to be an orgy. They wound up getting kicked out of the orgy because they launched into Batman and The Riddler and would not break character. I’m not sure what sort of orgy considers that to be a deal-breaker, but I’m not here to judge.
- Thousands of people in the US are employed by ICE to facilitate and carry out ethnic cleansing campaigns. The best thing they could do for their own consciences and a collectively-considereed moral standing would be to quit, and Never Again Atlanta wants to help the ones in Georgia do just that.
- Also in crimes against humanity, the Chinese government is being accused of forcibly harvesting organs from its persecuted religious minorities.
- RIP Joshua Brown, a neighbor of Botham Jean’s who was a witness in the trial of the cop who murdered him, “coincidentally” shot days after Jean’s murderer was convicted and sentenced. Think of this in the context of the serial killing of Ferguson protestors.
- Friend of the Walk Jordan Duncan brings word of a bold, sexy new Ronald McDonald. Now, Some of you out there in internetland may have just discovered what your kink is, and if you’re in that boat, I want you not to panic. I want you to know that I’m here for you, I hold space for you, and you’re doing fine.
- The Juno spacecraft recently caught a snapshot of a solar eclipse on Jupiter as the shadow of its moon Io passes by.
- Mapquest has been sold for ever-diminishing returns, marking the decline and passing of another site whose raison d’être was subsumed by the Google blob.
- Lots of species use tools, now including an endangered species of pigs.
