• A rash of pickpocketing at San Francisco nightclubs, including one incident at Ruby Skye in which a man was caught with five cell phones worth about $1,700 total, has the Entertainment Commission encouraging people to use coat check. [SFist]
• Columbus Foods, the salami plant based in South San Francisco, is getting fined $700,000 and must spend another $6 million to upgrade its refrigeration system after an ammonia leak in 2009 sickened over 40 people in the vicinity, including some Genentech employees. [AP/HuffPo]
• It’s still speculation at this point, but a Salmonella outbreak in October and November that sickened 68 people in ten states is linked to a single Mexican fast-food chain that might rhyme with Paco Hell. [HuffPo]
• If you want to jump aboard the barrel-aged-cocktail bandwagon without paying $13 a drink, Tuthilltown sells a DIY kit for ten bucks. [SE]
• Did you know the cereal box is one of the most widely read mediums? Evidently it is, and it’s about to get more fun with digital technology like augmented reality. [USAT]
• Here are a couple of different chicken-wing-eating techniques you might want to try at this Sunday’s Super Bowl parties, including one-handed, and the “small-bone twist.” Might as well practice now! [HuffPo]
• The Smithsonian recently received a donation of 4,500 menus, collected by agoraphobe Virginia Mericle, who never left the house but had the bills of fare mailed to her over the years. [Atlantic]
