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As for vodka, you can make it from pretty much any source of alcohol and have the finished product almost completely neutral. A friend took a distilling class and their demo vodka was made from cheap boxed white wine.

It doesn't stop me (much) from enjoying this or that product, but unless I have solid evidence (i.e. the 3 microdistilleries within walking distance of my home), I assume all liquor brands are owned by a behemoth multi-national like Diageo and even if it says "since 1643" on the label that recipes/blends/ingredients are constantly tweaked to lower cost and cater to focus-grouped tested tastes.

A nice article, yes, and +1 for mostly being about cyclocross. I presume the author isn't the guy bunny hopping barriers on the MTB...

Don't miss the response in thread from ST developer Yoz Grahame.

http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibl...

Amended translation: Our nervous and paranoid content provider partners upon whose good graces our entire business depends demand DRM before allowing us to deliver content to any platform.

Two words, young folk: "Cover painting" http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/169

There's no good reason for Netflix to risk its business model by ruining its relationship with their nervous and twitchy content providers over fears of ZOMG NO DRM! for the sake of Watch Instantly on Linux desktops. I wish this weren't the case because that's main hole in my Linux/Boxee HTPC.

But surely Netflix knows it has to address Android (and maybe even Chrome OS) eventually. How/if they pull that off will be interesting to say the least.

Host the app on a local Linux VM perhaps?

A short summary that made sense to me: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/chrome-app-store.html

Have you considered letting users subscribe to a list of topics, locations, etc. within Lanyrd and aggregating that into one feed?

update: wrote a blog entry about Lanyard with my thoughts http://www.allthingsrss.com/2010/12/07/track-conferences-soc...

"the conference directory goes social"

He lost me at sentence 3: "Even before he started using a delay pedal, like on Boy".

Um, practically every U2 song ever makes heavy use of guitar delay.

"Profitable, high flying startups like Facebook and Zynga don't bother going public anymore."

Um, Facebook and Zygna aren't startups anymore. Startup != privately-held company.

The PayPal vs. merchant account calculator was cute and well designed, except that you can't enter your own values for average transaction size and monthly volume.