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 …
We finally did what we should've done forever ago: filled a party bag with restaurant
names so we never have to decide again.
http://ratbagp.blogspot.com/2011/01/howard-strauss.html … Actual quotes re: the introduction of electricity at Princeton.
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!
A python script that d3crypt5 the input pipe’s ASCII content from ASCII garbage slowly into the correct output.
(via Pareidoloop)
“Phil McCarthy’s Pareidoloop overlays randomly generated polygons on top of one another until facial recognition software recognizes a human face. Can’t sleep, at SIGGRAPH! [via @Brandonn]”
(via Classic pro-science-careers music video PSA: Chemical Party)
Xeni says: “The EU wasn’t always so terrible at promoting science careers through funny internet music videos! (thanks, Guido)”
Blake Boston of the Scumbag Steve meme writes an open letter to the woman in the Annoying Facebook Girl meme.
(via Taxi-window sticker: our security stinks and your credit card will be sniffed)
Don’t you have to meet some minimum security requirements to process credit card transactions?
Almost uncanny 
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