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Dogfish Head founder and brewer Sam Calagione to star in new reality show on Discovery Channel.
“Brewed” will follow Calagione from his Rehoboth Beach brew pub to exotic locations across the globe like Egypt, Peru, Italy and New Zealand as he explores the history and culture surrounding all sorts of varieties of beer.
The debut date of the show has not been the revealed yet, but in the meantime check out our interview with Calagione.
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Michael Sandel = Hot in Japan →
If only I knew the Japanese for “What is Justice?”…
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NYT: Sampling American Pale Ales →
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Who doesn’t love lists?
I don’t love them when slightly shitty beers (sorry, Flying Dog) get top billing! I think the ratings in the 2005 article are more reasonable, but I’ve also been a bit Oskar Blues-obsessed lately.
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A neat interactive graph of the ABV (alcohol by volume) & IBU (International Bittering Unit, measuring level of hops) of different beer styles by redditor Hoserman
Now we just need to get this graph over time (and Hans Rosling to narrate).
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Squashed: Some Pros and Cons of the Financial Reform Bill (and Titanic Metaphors) →
The Federal Reserve will have authority to regulate credit and debit card swipe fees. So that extra 3% (or so) hidden tax that you’re paying on all your purchases to fatten the credit card companies may eventually be reduced. (This doesn’t have huge implications for keeping the ship afloat. It’s just a really nice thing. Like free drinks in the grand saloon.)
Dan’s analysis, is (as usual) excellent, but I do have one nit to pick.
There absolutely is a hidden 2-3% tax on purchases going to the credit card companies. However, savvy consumers get the majority of this tax rebated via rewards credit cards (sometimes in the form of “points” or airline miles, but sometimes as cash). So the tax really falls on people who pay cash or use rewards-less debit/credit cards.
As a savvy consumer, I’m a bit miffed about any changes to this system - especially because I don’t think a drop in fees will lead to lower prices in the short term. I would, however, like to see efforts taken to lower the barriers to entry for the market. If there were an easy way for Google (for example) to issue a physical card that’s tied in to the Google Checkout service, I could see greater competition leading to lower fees (and consumer benefits) very quickly.
Where I was for the Japan-Paraguay game (and the ensuing happy riot)
The shirtless guy was something of the ringleader — people were calling him Honda (after Honda).
All in all, a fantastic night (and morning) in Shibuya.
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In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer. Elevator design is rooted in deception—to disguise not only the bare fact of the box hanging by ropes but also the tethering of tenants to a system over which they have no command.
Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
I am 95% certain that door close buttons actually work in Japan.
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here is a chart that i made, trying my darndest to represent the win-loss-draw relationship between the four teams in each of the eight world cup groups. if there were only three teams per group, this type of visualisation would be relatively straight forward. with four teams (and two spatial dimensions), things get a little dicey and the visualisation turns into a topological math problem. in the end, i wound up with this shield design based on a solution to a similar problem by john venn. i hope it is not overly confusing.
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I want to go to there. Actually, I am going to there.
For the next two and a half weeks, Daniel and I will be traveling throughout the Honshū island of Japan, including stays in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Mount Koya, and Hakone. We also plan to stop in Nara, Kamakura, and Miyajima. To be honest, between the insanity that has been the past week (graduating college, leaving Chicago for good), I haven’t had much time or emotional energy to get myself excited. I think I’m finally getting there, though.
Anyway, I may use tumblr to record my travels, and I may not. We’ll just to have to see. But I hope to put my neglected D40 to good use and return with some great pictures on July 11.
Travel to Japan will commence in T-12 hours.
I am incapable of conceiving what this trip will actually be like. So I’m busying my mind worrying about the World Cup: 1. Will Japan make it out of pool play? 2. Will I be able to get my ass up at 3:30 a.m. to watch US-Ghana? 3. When I do get my ass up at 3:30 a.m., will it be on the correct side of the international date line?
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