Back to the Future II writer Bob Gale: Biff Tannen was based on Donald Trump. No joke.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/21/how-back-to-the-future-predicted-trump.html … pic.twitter.com/kGvrFxhxxc
Amazon Fresh just went up $300/yr. Angry and sad to switch services after ~5yrs.
Alternatives recommendations? http://www.geekwire.com/2014/tough-swallow-longtime-amazon-fresh-customers-bolting-new-299year-subscription/ …
Klingon Forehead Problem: TOS no makeup, no ridges. TNG+ ridges. ENT S4 retcons the
answer of virus http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/klingon-foreheads.htm …
For the First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail* for Wrongfully
Convicting an Innocent Man http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-godsey/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html …. *For 10 days.
Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski in his Strata+Hadoop keynote says to not collect or
store data. "Haunted by Data" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk …
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/ …
Thor's hammer = Microwave's electromagnet + Arduino + fingerprint scanner. Inventor
trolls Venice Beach bystanders: http://www.cnet.com/news/engineer-builds-working-thors-hammer-only-he-can-lift/ …
Neat hack: use victim's headphone wire as antenna to send audio commands to their
phone's Siri http://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hacks-siri-from-16-feet-away/ …
This is cool as heck http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/?mbid=social_twitter#slide-1 … pic.twitter.com/BCnBDsSy8V
Auto generating clickbait articles via neural network: http://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-with-recurrent-neural-networks/ …. And the result: http://clickotron.com/
For #inktober today I did
my interpretation of @neilerdude's Maxwell Keeper: the Time Keeper from @ComedyBangBang pic.twitter.com/XScLUATTXU
“Can I get 2 boxes of Sudafed?” “Sorry, by law you can only buy one at
a time.” “Okay then just the one box of Sudafed and these 7 guns.”
LAUGHING MY ASS OFF http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls-2016-diesel-lineup-from-us-market/ … pic.twitter.com/F0CYPjwxbs
An interesting history of car manufactures cheating emissions tests: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/10/volkswagens-emissions-cheating-scandal-has-a-long-complicated-history/ …
Panos Panay had an awesome performance at the Windows 10 Devices event yesterday!
https://twitter.com/verge/status/651494054975434752 …
On whistleblower Edward Scissorhands: "to cast him out… simply because he has scissors
for hands… that's strange" http://kottke.org/15/09/whistleblower-edward-scissorhands …
Crunching @nytimes ad analysis: It costs
consumers 16.6x more in data costs than top 50 news sites make on them in mobile ad$ @BenedictEvans
Man Can’t Believe Obama Would Use Tragedy To Push Anti-Tragedy Agenda http://www.theonion.com/r/51455 via @theonion
"A mass shooting has been reported at TK, where TK people are believed to be dead."
Journalism on the shooting beat http://ow.ly/SWwPn
Almost uncanny 
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