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Tweet from Lexi Alexander

2016 Oct 10, 5:15
Someone just asked me to smile as I was stepping out of the elevator, so I jumped in his face and yelled "BOOH".He almost had a heart attack
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Tweet from Alex Norris

2016 Oct 5, 9:42
trying to join a twitter conversation between people you admire
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Tweet from David Risney

2016 Aug 18, 5:40
Mother Jones on ending private prisons and their previous piece inside private prisons: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/department-justice-plans-end-private-prison  https://twitter.com/AlexCKaufman/status/766300516007682048 
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Retweet of zeynep

2015 Oct 14, 6:11
Ran into Alex Halderman recently. He casually said "we found a weakness in Diffie-Hellman." My jaw dropped. GO READ. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ …
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The Doritos origin story: Repurposed garbage from Disneyland

2014 May 6, 7:16

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A reminder that those Doritos you love are trash:

Shortly after Disneyland opened in 1955, the founder of Frito-Lay got permission from Walt Disney to open a restaurant in Frontierland with a Mexican-ish theme. “Casa de Fritos” was, unsurprisingly, all about the Fritos. Customers got free Fritos, and Fritos were incorporated into many of the dishes. Fritos were dispensed by an animatronic vending machine that featured the terrifying “Frito Kid”asking his assistant “Klondike” to bring the bag up from a mineshaft. I guess the conceit is that Fritos were mined by Forty-Niners?

Casa de Fritos contracted their tortilla production to a company called Alex Foods. One of the salesmen from Alex Foods, making a delivery to Casa de Fritos, noticed stale tortillas in the garbage and gave the cook a little tip: fry them and sell them as chips instead of throwing them away. Casa de Fritos began making these fried, seasoned chips to enormous success, but didn’t report this new menu item to the Frito-Lay company.

Eventually Frito-Lay found out what they were doing with the chips, packaged them, and sold them by the truckload. See, dumpster diving works out sometimes!

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This might be the strangest release of classic Chicago label...

2013 May 17, 5:43


This might be the strangest release of classic Chicago label Trax yet! The clue’s in the title - it’s Daft Punk brassified. We get four classics by the world’s most famous Gallic robot duo: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” gets turned into a 1940s Dick Tracy-style riff-off with every form of trumpet imaginable, “Around The World” mixes wind instruments with that famous vocal mantra, “Da Funk” features plenty of sassy brass and “One More Time” wraps things up on a swingin’, jazzy high.

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Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth | Threat Level | Wired.com

2012 Aug 21, 7:00

Brief history and scope of the Internet Archive.

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Alex takes a few steps

2012 Aug 16, 4:06
From: David Risney
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Alex walking via walker

2012 Aug 6, 4:44
From: David Risney
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Alex Claps (by Sarah Moffatt) Sarah chose the music =)

2012 May 7, 5:45


Alex Claps (by Sarah Moffatt)

Sarah chose the music =)

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First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

2012 Apr 23, 11:22


First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

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Fwd: Alex Water Lessons

2012 Mar 10, 9:42

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Fwd: Alex Water Lessons

2012 Mar 10, 9:42

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Alex and glo friend

2012 Jan 17, 4:52

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Alex and glo friend

2012 Jan 17, 4:52

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Alex on quilt

2012 Jan 14, 9:41

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Alex on quilt

2012 Jan 14, 9:41

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Alex asleep in baby chair

2012 Jan 14, 3:17

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Alex asleep in baby chair

2012 Jan 14, 3:17

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Alex in standing thing

2012 Jan 4, 9:30

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