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How a Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

How a Janitor at Frito-Lay Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

Zachary Crockett for The Hustle writes: At $4 per hour ($18 in 2019 dollars), the job paid many multiples of what [Richard] Montañez made in the fields. It represented a...

Posted Sunday July 7th, 2019

ESPN Will Shut Down its Flagship Magazine

From Brian Steinberg at Variety: Editorial staffers are expected to stay with the company, says the person familiar with the situation. Most were already working for other parts of ESPN’s...

Posted Sunday July 7th, 2019
Haruki Murakami’s Epiphany

Haruki Murakami’s Epiphany

From The Age: As a teenager, Murakami had read “all the great authors” – Dostoevsky, Kafka, Flaubert, Dickens, Raymond Chandler. He spent his lunch money on pop and jazz records....

Posted Saturday July 6th, 2019
Kintsugi

Kintsugi

From mymodernmet.com: Kintsugi art dates back to the late 15th century. According to legend, the craft commenced when Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent a cracked chawan—or  tea bowl—back to China to undergo repairs. Upon...

Posted Friday July 5th, 2019

Mike Tyson Deepfaked into the Family Matters Intro

You really don’t need all that much horsepower these days to create decent deepfake. This Family Matters intro, deepfaked with Mike Tyson as the subject, is a pretty fantastic comedy...

Posted Thursday July 4th, 2019

How to Disable WordPress Emojis

The easy, fast, and safe way.

Posted Thursday July 4th, 2019
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