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- Around The Web
A number of you have asked about the survey I ran a while back. I’ll post the results soon. In the meantime, if you want a break from Thanksgiving prep, here are a few good links for your enjoyment. The eloquent Mark Morford, columnist for the...
- Wine Gadgets The World Needs
Lore Sjöberg, who often writes humorous pieces for Wired, has put his satirical pen to paper and pondered the wine gadgets missing from the world. An automatic wine twirler? A tooth-mounted flavor sensor? A temporal acceleration device to age your...
- Wired Deconstructs Red Bull
What do all those ingredients in Red Bull do? Wired Magazine deconstructs a can's ingredient list and offers real-world (not marketing-hype) information about the effects of each item. From the article: Glucose Like most popular soft drinks, Red...
- Engineering Mad Cow Out Of Cows
File this under "Two wrongs don't make a right." Scientists have announced that they've genetically engineered cows to be resistant to mad cow disease, according to Wired's Bodyhack blog. The prions behind the brain-wasting illness didn't...
- The Freshest Fish?
I don't know if chefs forage for seafood outside the world's first undersea restaurant, but wouldn't that be a great show for the tony dining room? The restaurant serves the Hilton in the Maldives, and it's sort of a reverse aquarium:...
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Wired Rattles Its Sabers
Wired offers advice on sabering Champagne bottles—slicing off the top of the bottle, cork and glass and all. Too bad Wired couldn't find any actual sabering adepts to teach the flamboyant move. I can name a few people in the Bay Area who are experts at the technique, and I've done it once or twice (with mixed results). Instead, the technology magazine consulted one person at K & L Wines who has "seen the move in a movie" and then the author links to YouTube video demonstrations, which are fun to watch if you've never seen someone saber a bottle before.
- Around The Web
A number of you have asked about the survey I ran a while back. I’ll post the results soon. In the meantime, if you want a break from Thanksgiving prep, here are a few good links for your enjoyment. The eloquent Mark Morford, columnist for the...
- Wine Gadgets The World Needs
Lore Sjöberg, who often writes humorous pieces for Wired, has put his satirical pen to paper and pondered the wine gadgets missing from the world. An automatic wine twirler? A tooth-mounted flavor sensor? A temporal acceleration device to age your...
- Wired Deconstructs Red Bull
What do all those ingredients in Red Bull do? Wired Magazine deconstructs a can's ingredient list and offers real-world (not marketing-hype) information about the effects of each item. From the article: Glucose Like most popular soft drinks, Red...
- Engineering Mad Cow Out Of Cows
File this under "Two wrongs don't make a right." Scientists have announced that they've genetically engineered cows to be resistant to mad cow disease, according to Wired's Bodyhack blog. The prions behind the brain-wasting illness didn't...
- The Freshest Fish?
I don't know if chefs forage for seafood outside the world's first undersea restaurant, but wouldn't that be a great show for the tony dining room? The restaurant serves the Hilton in the Maldives, and it's sort of a reverse aquarium:...