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!
- This Week in Amazing Things I Just Learned: in 1981, The Village People made a last stab at relevancy by changing their whole look and recording a punk song.
- Be kind to plywood. Treat it well and love it.
- For the new Avengers film (there’s a new Avengers film, if you haven’t heard), there will be less of a marathon and more of an endurance test.
- How do you prevent public urination? Maybe you have the walls knock the urine right back onto the drunks.
- First we taught a computer how to play chess. Then came the real challenge: Space Invaders.
- How are your favorite forms of booze made?
- Self-improvement for better sexual performance meets some light transhumanism. With a simple implant, you can literally turn your sweetums and/or yourself into a vibrator.
- This Week in Wikipedia Whirlpools: so very many things have been used as badges of shame in our history. Try not to do anything that’ll make the authorities burn off your pubic hair.
- From Steve Wille: a tale of negligence and horrifying child abuse.
- Fifty years after being viciously beaten by Alabama state troopers and cops, John Lewis told his story of the Selma march.
- In Georgia, a man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for going to work early. Take one guess as to whether he’s black.
- Elsewhere in Georgia, yet another unarmed young black man has been murdered by a white cop. Same shit, different cop.
- In Madison, Wisconsin, rallies continue in support of Tony Robinson, yet another black child murdered by yet another cop. Same shit, every cop.
- In Oklahoma, fratboys are virulent racists, and frats in general are pretty gross, but at least the OU president’s heart is in the right place. (Link has autoplay music, so go ahead and pause that immediately unless you want to rock out for a bit.)
- In Connecticut, the girls’ hockey state title game ended in a tie when officials shuffled both teams off the ice so the boys could play. Because clearly we know who’s important.
- The Creation Museum is the sort of thing that’s so distinctly stupid that it could only be made by us, in this time, when some among us can take quite a lot of time and use quite a lot of money to luxuriate in willful ignorance.
- In the US, independent bookstores have somehow been rebounding.
- Where in the Dewey Decimal System can you find this rabbit?
- In the distant past, Mars had an ocean covering twenty percent of its surface.
- Name the source: Cat Fancy or Playboy?
- Some retired NFL players go through hell due to physical and psychological damage done on the field, as most of us have heard quite a lot about in recent years. Some, though, turn their competitive drive toward dog shows.
- Daylight Saving Time began this past weekend, which of course means that it’s time for a new round of articles about how much it sucks.
- Faig Ahmed makes handmade carpets that look digitally manipulated.
