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? Comment on the Walk post at the Place to Be Nation Facebook page, or find Glenn on the social media platform of your choice!
- This Week in White Supremacy: In Whitefish, Montana, an entire Jewish congregation got doxxed.
- There exists a pigment that is the pinkest pink that has ever been pink, the pinkest pink in the world — and one artist is banned from using it.
- This Week in Estate Planning: Artful Ashes will take a small portion of your cremated remains and swirl them into beautiful glass art.
- This Week in Things I’d Buy if I Had Enough Money Not to Care: star chart glasses. Gorgeous.
- Last April, geneticists in China introduced HIV-resistance into a small number of embryos, as gene-editing technology progresses.
- George Washington made an annotated copy of the US constitution on which he drew brackets next to every section that named one of his powers as President, because everyone needs to make some notes when starting a new job.
- In the ancient Maya civilization, even in landlocked cities, shark teeth were a prized commodity.
- At the UN, a resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism passed over the objections of the United States. (Canada abstained from the vote.)
- You know, it turns out that “The Gambler” really does contain the secrets to all games…and maybe life?
- The relationship between memory, emotions, stress, and our susceptibility to physical disease is important and fascinating.
- An eleven-year-old on the internet would like to know about your feelings about squirrels. That’s enough for me.
- This Week in DooM WADs: Ron For It adds legs to every object in the game. All of them. It is amazing and horrified.
- It’s a little late for a Wednesday Walk Holiday Gift Guide at this juncture, but I really hope none of y’all got anyone a doll that spies for military contractors.
- Speaking of holiday gift-giving, The Big Guy is getting ready to hoist his heavy sack.
- People have been writing satire about MRAs for hundreds of years.
- Speaking of creeps, a security guard at an NFL game apparently couldn’t help but jerk it right next to the Chargers cheerleaders. Dudez are doing great. (Via JT Rozzero)
- This Week in Calming Exercises: Practice some slow, regular breathing while you watch marbles and magnets do some cool stunts.
