señor taco’s travels

Mike Lee: The Power of Charity:

So we just give it to charity—every penny of it. No matter how convinced you are that we have black hearts fueled by consuming the flesh of kittens and puppies, it’s nigh impossible to come up with a good conspiracy theory that involves us compromising our user experience to earn money for charity.

My friend Rob¹ has written a nice article on Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds.

1. BTW, Rob is an insanely smart fellow. I’m glad I got to work with him if only for a little while.↩

This idea of cheap wind generators is pretty damn cool. I love the simplicity of the device and it’s relatively cheap components.

The War of the Worlds Book Cover Collection:

(Via Neatorama.)

I love the web comic xkcd. It’s math, language, and generally nerdy good times. Today’s comic really cracks me up in a way that only someone that’s done programming and databases can love:

Steve Albini Talks of Food and includes a simple recipe for mayonnaise at the end. He’s a bit of a grouch, but a talented grouch for sure.

(Via jwz.)

Over the Labor Day weekend Keith, Mark, and I were coming back from New Zealand and we had to go the long way around from the airport as the Bay Bridge was closed. Here’s a time-lapse movie of the reason why. Pretty cool.

Hidden bear in Toblerone logo

I was tucking into a toblerone today, and decided to have a look into the history of this unusual chocolate bar. Aside from a rather interesting history, (maybe Einstein handled the patent) I found that there is a secret bear hiding in the matterhorn logo.”

(Via Boing Boing.)

From a single sheet of paper.

(Via Coudal Partners Blended Feed.)

one + one = three’s ‘Old School’ Cycling Logos (via Coudal Partners)