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 Personal Plugs: I’m trying a new thing on the ol’ Podcast Hour Spectacular; my dear friend Steve Wille is coming on to do an advice show, and we need your questions! Email us or go to our Ask.fm page to send your questions today. (Your name won’t be read on the show without permission (so tell us what to call you, if anything), and Ask.fm allows anonymous submissions.)
- Kate Beaton is a webcomic artist (and more) who’s brought a lot of mirth to a lot of people, including adorable quickly-drawn family-time comics when she’s visiting relatives. Now she’s asking for quite a lot of money to cover expenses for her sister’s cancer, and it’s really heartwarming to see the huge response it’s gotten.
- This Week in Cleansing Fire: I had no idea that burning steel wool is so satisfying.
- PTBN big bossman JT Rozzero brings word of the zombie fungus that hijacks ants’ bodies by replacing the signals from their brains, which on the one hand is horrifying…but sometimes there are just too many decicions to make in life, you know?
- JT also wants us to know about the nude photo of Justin Bieber that Macklemore has in his bedroom. (Warning: Link contains an image of a nude painting of Justin Bieber. Quite NSFW, unless you’re at my office and nobody’s around this week.) I mean…okay, I’m not yucking any yums, but it is completely in line with Macklemore’s “I’m such a geat ally! Do you know what an awesome ~ally~ I am! I’M TOTALLY STRAIGHT, NEVER FORGET THAT I AM STRAIGHT, but I’m annnnn allllllly” schtick to also own softcore celebrity twink porn. (Also in cans of worms: is this nonconsensual softcore celebrity twink porn, or is the Biebs into it?)
- I can’t imagine the fate that would’ve befallen me as a kid if I’d tried these sick wheelbarrow stunts with my dad’s wheelbarrow.
- There’s a new Sexiest Man Alive, which means of course that the ritual must commence anew.
- I don’t really get listening to podcasts at fast-forward speeds, but I’m not here to judge.
- If you’re trying to celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow and somehow mess up the meal, Pringles has you covered.
- The Weather Channel set up a great shot of the Georgia Dome imploding, before…WELP.
- RIP John Raines.
- The first asteroid from another solar system passed through our neighborhood recently. Surely there must have been a spaceship hidden behind this one, right?
- I think I’ll celebrate the holiday season by indulging in some festive alcoholism. Who’s with me?
- Interest in the publicly-available form of Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis crashed the Cambridge site when it was posted. Good news, though — the site’s back up and you can grab your copy here.
- This Week in Tattoos: Any tattoo can turn into body horror when something goes wrong, eye tattoos doubly so. (Some of us generally think tattooing tips into body horror, but again, not here to judge.) (Warning: slight medical gore, autoplay video.)
- This Week in Headlines: An Abandoned Roman Salami Factory Becomes an Illegal, Inhabited Museum.
- There was some unrest among fans of Junkie XL when he got booted from the new Justice League motion picture, and I’ve got to say, now that a selection from Junkie’s unused score has surfaced, they had a point.
