"From doggy clothes featuring macrophotography of Chex Mix, to “Thanksgiving Shrimp” skateboard decks" well this rules

"I have a joke about brands creating content that starts by explaining that Red Bull is actually one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of action sports content in the world. That fact is quickly followed by the punchline: Turns out it's a lot easier to be a publisher that sells highly-caffeinated soda instead of ads."

so cool, arbitrary and well-known insane routes (e.g. Cairo to Norway) used as benchmarks for open (OSM) vs. proprietary (google) map routing services

First NYU Abu Dhabi, now this.  Could think of many other more deserving producers, but then again, maybe Swizz Beatz is the rap equivalent of NYU:<br />
 “What made me different, I was doing designs in people’s haircuts,” he says. “Then I started giving an incentive—you buy a design, you get a mix tape. I was charging $30, more than anybody.”

houses that opt out of google streetview get tagged with "GOOGLE'S COOL"

wall street firms using sattelites for parking lot data (via kevin slavin) :
With a satellite picture, “you don't have to guess based on what a manager is saying from a store or the opinion of a research analyst,” said Tom Diamond, co-founder of Remote Sensing Metrics. “It's a real piece of data you can look at.”

“[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later.

love the name love the daft punk one and sting, more python!

from borna from winkler