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MEXICAN CARTEL DECLARES WAR ON CHEETOS»
Mexican drug cartels are not strictly drug cartels. One of their fastest-growing markets is extortion of private citizens and businesses. Don’t pay, and you can be threatened — or worse. But largely, the cartels target small businesses and individuals, and stay away from the larger industries. Now several arson attacks over the weekend against a Mexican snack chip subsidiary might be the first time the cartels have targeted a multinational corporation.
That corporation would be PepsiCo. According to press reports, masked men attacked five warehouses and vehicle lots on Friday and Saturday nights belonging to the U.S. snack and soft drink giant. More specifically, PepsiCo’s Mexican subsidiary: Sabritas. Dozens of yellow delivery trucks — which transport Sabritas chips and Fritos, Cheetos and Ruffles (among other brands) for the Mexican market — were burned. The good news: No one was injured or killed. At least one member of the Knights Templar cartel was reportedly arrested.
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MEET 'FLAME': THE MASSIVE SPY MALWARE INFILTRATING IRANIAN COMPUTERS»
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Added to my must read list: JACKED: THE OUTLAW STORY OF GRAND THEFT AUTO. You can find an excerpt here. See also: ‘Grand Theft Auto III’ turns 10 years old: Rockstar Games’ Dan Houser discusses the ‘GTA’ decade
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NEW YORK HAS SOME PRISONS TO SELL YOU»
One property, in the Hudson Valley, includes a 16-car garage, a piggery and hundreds of yards of lake frontage. Another offers 69 acres of waterfront land on the west shore of Staten Island, complete with a two-story gymnasium, a baseball diamond and an open-air pavilion.
Those seeking seclusion have an option, too: 20 acres adjoining state forest land in rural Schoharie County, perfect for hunting, trapping and fishing. The property comes with its own wastewater- and sewage-treatment plants, as well as a chapel and a carpentry shop.
The ideal buyer is someone who craves space to spread out, and who does not mind a property that has had thousands of guests over the years. And a fondness for “The Shawshank Redemption” would not hurt.
(Source: Bldgblog)
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EMBARRASSING CONDITIONS:THE LIVING DEAD»
“Imagine how horrific life would be when you are convinced to be dead, while you are still alive. This delusional belief of non-existence characterizes sufferers of the rare mental disorder Cotard Delusion. Slight variations include those that believe they are rotting or have lost their blood or internal organs.
The first described patient was presented in a lecture in Paris in 1880 by neurologist Jules Cotard as Mademoiselle X, who denied the existence of god and the devil as well as several parts of her body and her need to eat. Furthermore she believed herself to be eternally damned and incapable of dying a natural death. She later died of starvation in what one must assume came as a shock to her at least.”
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INTERVIEW WITH VINCE LI: CANADA'S GREYHOUND BEHEADER»
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“SWAGGER” AND OTHER EVERYDAY WORDS INVENTED BY FAMOUS AUTHORS»
Swagger, bump, obscene, luggage: Though the attributions change from time to time based on dating and research, the common wisdom is that William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words, many of which we still use today. Some of our favorites: bump, first used in Romeo and Juliet, swagger, first used in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, obscene, first used in Love’s Labor’s Lost, and luggage, first used in King Henry IV, Part I.
Nerd: If you were ever teased in high school for being a nerd, you probably have Dr. Seuss to blame — him and those pocket protectors you insisted on wearing. Seuss’s 1950 children’s book If I Ran the Zoo contains the first printed usage of the word, as a strange little animal one might like to keep locked up: “And then, just to show them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo/A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!”
(Source: theatlantic)
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TUTORIAL: HOW TO BUILD SECRET COMPARTMENT STORAGE DRAWERS UNDER YOUR STAIRS»
(Source: stashvault)
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HOW THE CIA USED A FAKE SCI-FI FLICK TO RESCUE AMERICANS FROM TEHRAN»
Mendez had spent 14 years in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service — the part of the spy shop known for trying to plant explosives in Fidel’s cigars and wiring cats with microphones for eavesdropping. His specialty was using “identity transformation” to get people out of sticky situations. He’d once transformed a black CIA officer and an Asian diplomat into Caucasian businessmen — using masks that made them ringers for Victor Mature and Rex Harrison.
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DRUG DOUBLES: WHAT ACTORS ACTUALLY TOKE, SMOKE AND SNORT ON CAMERA»
