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.
- It’s fascinating to consider what the future of football might hold. (If you click through for nothing else this week, click this.)
- As I read one mother’s extended whinge session about her son’s new tattoo I kept waiting for it to become obvious that it’s satire. It has the requisite escalation completely out of scale with the thing it’s reacting to, the absurdly self-centered attitude of the protagonist, the archaic judgments applied to current fashions…but no, apparently the writer is completely, deadly serious. Which I guess I can understand having for about a second, since lots of people have idiosyncratic priorities (ask me about my preferred methods for washing dishes without getting my hands wet), except, like, sustaining that reaction long enough to write a column for The Guardian and see it published seems unhealthy at best and emotionally abusive at worst.
- Fancy mathematicians say there are only fifteen possible tilings using pentagonal shapes, but I have a sharp blade, a bare bathroom floor, and a whole weekend blocked off.
- This Week in Ways to Get Substances Into Your Body: There’s an exciting new chocolate for you to snort, so you don’t have to stop snorting things just because you got off the heavy stuff.
- In Oklahoma City, a man recently assaulted his roommate over a Star Trek vs. Star Wars argument. As I say so often on the ol’ Podcast Hour Spectacular, it’s okay to like more than one thing! We can give peace a chance! (Warning: autoplay video)
- This Week in Municipal Workers Having Fun: The folks who program the highway signs in Tulsa seem fun.
- RIP Jack Say, composer of Brass Bonanza.
- Amazingly, video has been captured of my inner self-representation.
- The Vatican has ruled that people with celiac disease can either suffer or forego communion.
- Jimmy John’s is firing employees for pointing out that forcing people to go to work when they’re sick is a very bad idea when their job is making food.
- North America will get a nice solar eclipse on August 21st, though only a swath of the US’ lower 48 will be in the path of totality. That’s much rarer in some parts of the country than it is in others.
- Ninja Warrior is amazing, and the people on it are amazing.
- Your biology gets pretty weird when your body is made up mostly of legs.
- For years, one man made it his mission to get Weird Al Yankovic a star on the Walk of Fame.
- Text the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and they will send you art.
