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.
- A fund set up in memory of Philando Castile (after he was murdered by cops) has eliminated a year’s worth of student lunch debt for St. Paul, Minnesota. I mean, “student lunch debt” is the sort of phrase that makes one wonder just what it takes to burn an economic system to the ground, but good on the organizers and donors.
- Give me all of the web game courses synced up to classical music. *grabby-hands emoji* Seriously, that video gets pretty fabulous.
- Call your video Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production and I am THERE.
- Local news is always there to cover hot late-breaking stories.
- To the writers of Olive Garden fanfiction: bless you. (For real though, “There is only one Olive Garden, but it has a thousand doors” is an exquisite line, rich in possibility.)
- Sometimes a simple typo can take you on a journey of discovery.
- This Week in Textbook Design/This Week in Animal Drawings: Programming textbooks have distinctive animal engravings because they were more interesting that way, which is pretty much the best reason to make a design decision.
- Normally I find any claim that something was better in The Old days, let’s just say, extremely dubious. (Kids These Days is always bullshit.) But it really is hard to read this account of philosopher-troll Diogenes of Sinope without yearning for a simpler time when trolls would live in wine barrels and instruct world leaders not to block their sunlight, in stark contrast to the misogynist edgelord cyber-terrorists and actual factual Nazis among our modern trolls.
- This Week in Sculpture: The Fragile Giant is an elephant sculpture measured at 0.157 nanometers, filmed with a scanning electron microscope.
- You can arrest a person for stealing a million dollars’ worth of fajitas over nine years, but there’s not a jury in the land that would convict. Hold the phone…what’s that? He stole the fajitas from kids? Well, that’s different then.
- This Week in Wednesday Walk Parenting Top Tips: Every now and then, make sure your kids’ hobbies mirror scientific techniques.
- Also in parenting ideas, Halloween is coming up and I can’t think of a better costume for your kid than Gordon Ramsay.
- Meme culture is totally neo-dadaism.
- Speaking of, let’s check the tweets–oh, we’re ranking Doctor Eggman designs by relative sexiness. The internet can be a wonderful thing.
- This Week in Video Games: Why Spend $80 on an SNES Classic When You Can Install Emulators on a Raspberry Pi and Never Shut the Fuck Up About It?
- PTBN Grand Poobah Brad Hindscrooge brings word of Billy Corgan’s supernatural adventures. Yeah, and one time a guy I used to know spent half an hour telling me about all of the unnatural limbs and protuberances he thought he saw on some animal running away from the side of the road when he was driving at night. Let’s all just nod our heads, wonder internally if he’s drunk or something, and move on.