Noah Brier | December 7, 2024
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 32
On the Rainforest Cafe, breakups, and poorly-designed sports jerseys.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we typically round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
1995’s Greater Pittsburgh bank robberies (Wikipedia)
The quick, sweet history of two robbers who thought covering their faces in lemon juice would make them invisible to security cameras.
The Rainforest Cafe Refuses to Go Extinct (Slate)
With animatronic apes and chocolate volcano cakes, the restaurant was built for a social media age that didn’t exist—until now.
The Great Pokemon Go Spy Panic (Foreign Policy)
That time a global hit sparked digital paranoia inside U.S. intelligence.