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. Do you have a link you want to see featured in next week’s Wednesday Walk? Email Glenn!
- Medium’s year-end retrospective for 2014 notes that it sucked. On a social, national, and global level, yes.
- If you missed my love letter to Star Trek as it was twenty years ago, please have a look.
- It can be difficult to keep up with internet lingo sometimes, so it doesn’t hurt to brush up.
- Here’s your holiday reminder that there hasn’t been a single week since the murder of Mike Brown that a cop hasn’t murdered a black person.
- Lots of people have been posting jaunty fun-time year-end collages on Facebook. Algorithms, unfortunately, are not good at recognizing people who might not want a walk down memory lane.
- Sports journlists are so very upset that Marshawn Lynch keeps no-selling their stupid questions.
- Comcast, whose customer-service centers have been faithfully described by Dante, apparently has a VIP service that’s, like, an actual service, and is made available to legislators and their staffers, among others.
- Jason Krowe would like to bring you some facts.
- Seinfeld, like so many pop culture properties, helps explain complex economic principles. Obviously.
- This Week in Year-End Retrospectives: the best science images of 2014. We covered the monkey selfie previously — the monkey owns the selfie — as well as the X-ray gifs.
- Also in year-end retrospectives: officially, 22 animals went extinct in 2014.
- The NYPD, a white-supremacist terrorist organization you may have heard of, manufactures drug charges to fill quotas.
- We’ve all listened to Serial, yes? Now, after the end of season one, Jay has decided he can do some interviews.
- You can now experience the octothorpe/pound sign/hashtag with all of your senses.
- North America is infested with starlings, pushing out native birds, because of one dude’s Shakespeare fandom.
Happy new year, Nation! Let’s finish our whirlwind tour of the year that was in the Wednesday Walk:
- Remember when a couple invited the queen to their wedding, and then she showed up?
- It’s always a good time for every Mitch Hedberg joke. “I wear a necklace now, because I like to know when I’m upside down.”
- Ol’ Dillo!
- Two billion years ago there was a natural nuclear reactor.
- This account of running away from abuse was harrowing.
- In a five-thousand-year-old archaeological site in Iran, there lies a six-foot-tall woman who had a gold-plated prosthetic eye carved to look like the sun. And you thought you were cool.
- The D-List X-Men need their own movies.
