What I saw on the web on 2022.9.12

1. How much helium does it take to lift a person?
   by Tom Scott
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwABJGzifao
   this looks like fun!
   via rss
   
   
2. World's Largest Jackalope
   by "a team of artists in Toronto, Ontario, Canada"
   https://www.worldslargestjackalope.com/
   exactly what it says on the tin
   via What's Different in Canada
   
   
3. Rotation
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/2671/
   what an excellent idea!
   via rss
   
   
4. A good day is...
   by Burt of Burt's Bees
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c2fFkZIlow
   i can get behind that
   via boing
   
   
5. Strange Edmonton - MacEwan University
   by /u/RAAIINN
   https://i.redd.it/vbt19pamrfn91.jpg
   looks accurate
   via reddit
   
   
6. How Long Is the Drive to the Edge of the Universe?
   by Randall Munroe
   https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-universe-driving.html
   well there go my plans for the weekend
   via rss
   
   
7. 20 Years Later, The Wire Is Still a Cutting Critique of American Capitalism
   by Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeny
   https://jacobin.com/2022/06/the-wire-20-years-cutting-critique-american-capitalism-television-series
   a sympathetic marxist analysis of the series
   via FB