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.
- The holiday gift-giving season is upon us, which means it’s yet again time to dunk on the Goop Gift Guide. I can’t wait to get all of my friends crystal subscriptions!
- Say what you want about celebrity protests, but Lucy Lawless belting out Xena’s war cry while storming an oil tanker is a hell of an image.
- My favorite part of any article about old-time nobility who were anything but straight is the comments from scholars desperate to explain that calling someone your husband, weeping about how he’s the most beautiful man, and building a super special hallway to his bedroom were all just how best buddies acted in the old days. Just guys bein’ pals.
- This Week in Historical Observations: Spaceships are now older than airplanes were when we flew our first spaceships.
- RIP Jemel Roberson, a security guard who was murdered by a cop who showed up to a call, looked at a black man in a shirt with SECURITY written on it in big bold letters, and thought “nah, can’t be, better open fire immediately.”
- Whenever something new is invented, it’s only a matter of time before we find out how it’s slowly sickening and/or killing us. 3D printing, it seems, throws off a cornucopia of toxic particles for anyone in the room to inhale.
- the magnificent cubical poop of the common wombat has long been a curiosity, but a close examination of a wombat intestine offers an explanation. Just in time for you to get some wombat poop plushies!
- I know it’s Thanksgiving (in the US), but allow me one more bit of Halloween: the march of art history is worth it.
- Also just in time for Thanksgiving, if you were going to try to make a salad to pretend you’re not just going to fill up on carbs & meats, you might want to rethink that. Embrace the carbs and embrace the meats (within your dietary and/or ethical requirements, I guess).
- Sometimes it’s nice to get a little honestly in online media.
