It’s been far too long since I blogged about beer. Not that I’ve taken a break from drinking the stuff, I’ve just stopped talking about it. Today’s Beer of the Moment (BoM) is Fat Weasel which is, as far as I know, an exclusive for Trader Joe’s. Fat Weasel is a malty ale with a […]
Missive conversations are intriguing. Take today as an example. One of my colleagues mentioned a previous job writing for a music magazine in a quasi-large Midwestern, identity crisis laden Midwestern city. Ok, fine, it was Grand Rapids. But, during his recounting of his experiences writing for this magazine, he mentioned places I used to tread. […]
Silence is Violence. “We pledge to you that we will get better and we’re going to start today,” he said, adding that the city would not recover until residents felt safe. (source) Hope you meant that, Nagin. There’s a lot of pissed off people who are going to hold you to it. By the way, […]
Exclusive Apple iPhone 360 degree Gallery: 50 Photos of the Jesus Phone – Gizmodo *snark* It does look amazing though. Too bad I could buy an Xbox 360 for the same price less.
Next week should be fun for Blizzard. Pre-orders for the expansion of the insanely popular MMO World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade, began a couple weeks ago. On Friday, Blizzard posted links to their online store where players could pre-order that expansion pack directly from Blizzard. Well, it’s gone. That’s right, Blizzard, the company releasing the […]
Pick your category and get downloading. Link
Holy bloody huge! Check out this “colossal” squid. Calamari jokes aside, the article mentions they think this thing is only two-thirds is full size. Yowza. Suddenly some those sea monster stories start to make sense. BBC [via Neatorama]
Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet. Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is […]
The WaPo weighs in. “It’s terrifying: We’re doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results,” said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied […]
“You hear only one note, and you already know who it is,” he said. “So what I want to know is: how we do this? Why are we so good at recognizing music?” Short on science but long on interest, this article explores the work of Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist at McGill University. Link […]