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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Walk? Email Glenn!
- Ravens will shun other ravens who cheat at tasks and steal unequal amounts of food. There’s an idea!
- This Week in Prosthetics: if your little one loses an arm somehow, they can become an Avenger through their new one.
- You’re never truly alone as long as you have your personal cloud of microorganisms.
- Sometimes you don’t talk someone off a ledge, you soothe them off of it with their cat. (Warning: article contains uncritical imagtes of cops.)
- It can also be dangerous to be naming roads and geographical features while in a lousy mood.
- There appears to be a large recall going on for bicycles that may suddenly shed their front wheels.
- This Week in TV Retrospectives: a perspective on the twentieth anniversary of Xena: Warrior Princess.
- Plato might not have been Plato’s birth name, but essentially his wrestling nickname, like if Dwayne Johnson became one of the great philosophers of our age and people thousands of years from now still debated the ontological principles of The Rock.
- Delete yourself from all the places you’ve spread yourself online. Go ahead, if you like. But you can never delete the things you’ve done and the person you’ve been. Sorry.
- In the US, the placebo effect seems to be growing.
- Some orchestras may not be able to hire as many musicians as they’d like — never fear, apparently you can just get a pile of guys together and play the Bolero on one cello.
- I still don’t get why people would go to the Bible-ified version of Medieval Times rather than, like, the actual Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament. Certainly jousting has got to be a better attraction than equally uninterested teenageers plowing through their summer jobs at the Noah/Jonah Water Park or the hourly crucifixions or whatever.
- One thing I struggle to remember when attempting to interact with other people (as seldom as that is), and something I find myself repeating, is that everyone has a rich internal life. Everyone has a rich internal life. We all contain multitudes. It is with this as background that I receive news of Paris Hilton picking up a World War II vet and bringing him to the club with her, or applying for a ham radio license.