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’ve ever wondered what your D&D class is, today’s your lucky day.
- This Week in Good Dogs: Who’s a good dog? Every dog that had its adoption fee paid by Derrick Nnadi following his Super Bowl win is a good dog.
- Steve Wille brings word of the hottest new consumer product on the market, incense that carries the unmistakable scent of Erykah Badu’s vulva. Tragically, it won’t be available for purchase until after Valentine’s Day.
- This Week in Art: One of the things you notice when you read about the Great Men of Art, if you’re inclined to notice, is that a lot of them had the time to contemplate and create because there were women doing the work they weren’t.
- Also This Week in Art, and also This Week in Recontextualization: Matt Wilson makes stunning and intricate animal sculptures out of silverware.
- Werner Herzog heard Paul F. Tompkins’ Werner Herzog impression. Your argument is invalid.
- Fifty years ago in Australia, a meteorite landed that’s now been found to have carried the oldest material ever found on Earth, far older than our sun.
- Coyote and badger travel together. Coyote and badger hunt together. Coyote and badger are friends!
- This Week in Exhaustive Analyses: Every Hot Pocket Flavor, Ranked. It is perhaps not shocking that the one flavor that’s actually supposed to have a chewy, rubbery shell comes off so well.
- Money laundering is the grease that makes crime flow as smoothly as it can, on all levels from your friendly neighborhood weed dealer to geopolitical shifts by influential nations.
- If you leave half a bar of soap behind in a hotel bathroon, it may be recycled into new sterile soap and donated to homeless shelters and other people around the world who most need it.
- If you’re looking for more of a design solution to toiletry-related waste, how about the shampoo bottle made out of soap? Once you’ve used trhe shampoo, it’s just a plain ol’ bar of soap. And here I am rubbing my regular shampoo bottles all over my body for nothing but my own amusement.
