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.
- If you find yourself suspicious of the deplorable and sometimes fatal conditions Amazon’s workers toil in to supply us with our consumer products (and supply Jeff Bezos with billions of dollars he continually decides not to use to end world hunger), Amazon will be more than happy to shine up a warehouse here and there and give you a pre-packaged propaganda tour. Also, don’t miss the Amazon sidebar banner here on The Place To Be Nation Dot Com.
- When a Very Serious Film Director has Very Serious Opinions About Cinema, it’s important to enjoy their work in the context for which it is intended.
- Usually drunken brawls that end in shootings aren’t worth airing in public, offering as they do only some amount of tragedy, or at most a small amount of schadenfreude. But when they involve three Indiana state judges who showed up at a White Castle drunk because their preferred strip joint was closed, only to get into an altercation when one of thel flipped off some jerkos in a truck, that certainly raises the notability level.
- The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Chicago employs seventy-five Big Mouth Billy Bass to sing you to your sleep when it’s time to forever rest.
- This Week in Oral Histories of Everything: As the podcast medium tilts more and more toward professionals and big names from other media, it’s worth considering where it came from, how it formed in the wild & woolly days of the internet, and how it’s developed from there. There’s an alternate universe somewhere where we didn’t wind up naming the medium after a particular piece of Apple hardware, but here we are.
- Your phone case is now a Game Boy. Your argument is invalid.
- This Week in Things You Probably Didn’t Know: Rod Stewart has an immense model railway. As pointed out in the replies, he did indeed built that city on rock and roll.
- This Week in Physics: Wave-particle duality has been observed in biological molecules for the first time, moving quantum physics in the direction of quantum biology.
- RIP Tank Hafertepen, who died of complications from silicone scrotum injections administered by his dom partner. Beauty standards and size fetishes can cut all ways, and while the wider culture is too quick to assume any dom/sub relationship is abusive, there are definitely some things that sound suspicious.
- Some of us want to punch the moon, some of us want to let it hatch, and some of us just want to cop a feel of that sweet, jagged lunar surface.
