The Slashfood blog has published a three-part online guide to alcoholic beverage glassware. Of main interest to readers of this blog is the section devoted to Beer Glasses. Nine different glass styles are discussed. Simple and straightforward, the guid…

The Video Game Systems of the 1983 Sears Wishbook – The Retroist – Memories…
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…for reminding me how much I loathe you and wish that President Obama will grant your request by allowing you to succeed from the union.
I was beginning to forget.
AP:
Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state government e-mail accounts.
One of the five e-mails obtained by The Associated Press asks […]

1. 17 year old kid arrested and charged with multiple counts of rape for having consensual sex with his 14 year old girlfriend. [Fail #1]
2. Grand Jury refuses to indict. [hero]
3. Prosecution prosecutes anyway and defense negotiates plea deal on charges that were vacated by the grand jury. [fail #2] [WTF???]
4. Kid spends thirty days […]

There’s good news in the ongoing saga of Shooting Creek Farm Brewery in Floyd County, Virginia. Local anti-alcohol forces had appealed the granting of the brewery’s license. Last month the two sides in the dispute agreed to sit down, with a neutral par…

Well, it’s December in the Mid-Atlantic and mixed precipitation is the rule. Last night was no exception as the western portions of the Sterling forecast area were under winter weather advisories/warnings. I had to drive northeast to the Aberdeen MD …

It’s that time of year again. Time to make resolutions about being a better person and improving our lives… only to forget about them a month or two later. Have you thought about what your resolutions will be this year?Resolutions to live healthier (…

TIME has chosen President-elect Barack Obama its 2008 Person of the Year.
Was there ever any doubt?
From TIME’s story intro:
In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States.
TIME also […]

This will only be funny to my 2 or 3 geek readers…
Visual Basic would be Satanism – Except that you don’t REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist…
Python would be Humanism: It’s simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel relieved […]

The police officer in this video filed a a fraudulent report in which he claimed the bicyclist that he attacked ignored his commands to stop and tried to run him over. The video clearly shows that the assault by the cop was unprovoked.
After an internal investigation that apparently took 6 months, the cop, Patrick […]