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.
- This Week in Architecture: how sexually explicit can you make a building?
- PTBN head honco JT Rozzerro brings word of the discovery of Saint Nick’s dessicated corpse. There is no Santa. We must all be Santa now.
- If you’re a freelance worker, or otherwise work at home, sometimes you need special pick-me-ups just for you.
- This Week in Cosplay: If you’re going to New York Comic Con and really want to make a splash with your costume, try going as the convention center hosting New York Comic Con.
- Fare thee well AIM. Long shall I remember the multitude of screen names I signed up for as in-jokes in high school and only used years later so I’d have a different account on every computer in the house (torquesaboutsun and gaussisgod, we hardly knew you). I probably used AIM longer than most, since I didn’t move my household chat over to Slack until earlier this year.
- Lewis and Clark’s journey across North America can be traced using the mercury deposits in their feces.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (Warning: bees?)
- It’s important not to fall into any of these geek social fallacies.
- I did not know that Nobel prizes in the sciences are so limited. Honoring three people at most for discoveries that are made by hundreds of people (or more) seems…unfortunate, at best.
- Colonialism winds its way into everything, including the pasta diaspora of formerly-Italian-oppupied African countries.
- “Chivalry is dead” is a mythical lament based on fundamental misunderstandings of what chivalry was and can be.
- This Week in Sports: The Jersey Devils are partnering with the Metropolitan Riveters to promote the NWHL team. Cool!
- Donating vintage canned food seems like an odd way of giving money to the local food bank, but hey, if you want to save yourself the stress of auctioning your fifty-year-old soup and want to help the food bank a little, knock yourself out.
- This week’s brief antidote to the horror of our world: at the very least, sometimes you get a happy ending for some seals.
I so look forward to the bullet points outlining the articles. They’re so darned entertaining.
Thanks as always Deb!