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? Email Glenn!
- Artist John Raya made a fantastic set of NFL helmets inspired by Star Wars, which is an upgrade over the real-world teams for aesthetic reasons, and also has the advantage of making several of them less racist!
- Let’s face it, sometimes you need something killer to tell your boss when you’re late to work. Try out that one about waiting for your bail to be set. (Note: do not do this thing.)
- So a philosopher walks into a coffee shop…
- The sounds of your cars are LIES. Man, just get rid of the ding-dang things already.
- Top Disproportionately Common Names By Profession. are there really that many Sebastians doing the racey-races?
- Many of us could use more Jewish food in our lives. My aunt made a couple of noodle kugels for Thanksgiving, when I mentioned I hadn’t had one since approximately 1996, and it’s definitely going to be part of my party repertoire going forward. Also, start preparing your hamantaschen technique, because PURIM IS COMING.
- A new ongoing blog project about the DC Animated Universe is kicking off with a fantastic analysis of the Batman TAS opening sequence. Patreon backers get to see the next several posts before they’re made public.
- This Week in Despair: violence in Ukraine is still going on. Many homophobic laws around the world are written by bigoted Christians from the US, and now one of them is facing trial for crimes against humanity. The death rate for members of noted white-supremacist terrorist organization NYPD is at a historic low, yet it’s still getting a raft of new machine guns to assault protesters with. Members of that terror cell also broke a ten-year-old’s leg before sexually assaulting his mother. Science denialism is still going on among the ridiculous anti-vaccine crowd, leading to a lovely measles outbreak.
- Speaking of vaccines everyone who isn’t immunocompromised should be getting, we might have a universal flu vaccine in the foreseeable future, rather than the yearly strain-specific vaccines we use now.
- An oral strip might soon provide relief from the burns you get when you can’t wait for your tea or pizza to cool down enough.
- It turns out that snake oil actually is a thing, jut not the snake oil most people were selling.
- Looking at moss samples from the time of a gigantic landslide eight thousand years ago, geologists think that it happened during the season when most of the people in the region would’ve been killed by the landslide. Welp.
- Smiling for a photo is pretty much expected. ‘Twas not always so.
- Some intrepid internet-goers gave the Fifty Shades of Grey poster some more representative taglines.
- In Normandy, about four percent of the beach is D-Day shrapnel.
- This Week in Etymology: look into the history of my favorite fucking word.
- Fantastic: a PSA shows men catcalling women who turn out to be their moms.
