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Mixing it up without IP

by JACOB GRIER on AUGUST 31, 2010

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Rum with it

Mixing drinks with spirits made from fresh sugar cane

By Jacob Grier

September 1, 2010

There is perhaps no spirit whose classification is as complicated as rum. There are light rums, white rums, dark rums, gold rums, spiced rums, flavored rums, funky Jamaican rums, overproof rums, and more. The one thing all rums have in common is the plant they’re distilled from: sugar cane. And while most rums are made from molasses or other sugar products, some use only fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice, capturing the aroma, flavor, and sweetness of newly cut cane.

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Darth Vader, Tai Chi Master.

Darth Vader does Tai Chi

Cory Doctorow at 10:09 AM Sunday, Aug 29, 2010

Here’s some clever (if initially long-winded) CGI video of Darth Vader doing a 42-movement Tai Chi sword form, created by John Leo. It works very well, presumably because the lightsaber choreography has some nexus with actual swordplay, as do Tai Chi’s stylized sword forms.

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2-1-1 is the E=mc2 of Intellectual Cocktail Circles

If Einstein were a mixologist, he would’ve used this formula for calculating the perfect drink every time.

We’re calling it The Theory of Mixology and it’s mathematical cocktail genius: 2 parts Strong + 1 part Sweet + 1 part Sour add up to Sip Nirvana every time you shake, relatively speaking. Put this formula into action whether you’re mixing in ounces for a single cocktail, cups for a few friends or gallons for a massive house party (or post domestic squabble). As with any scientific method, a few factors come into play.

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Yep, water.  Shocking, huh?

Weight loss elixir — water

Mark Frauenfelder at 1:21 PM Monday, Aug 23, 2010

“An appetite-control agent that requires no prescription, has no common side effects, and costs almost nothing? Scientists today reported results of a new clinical trial confirming that just two 8-ounce glasses of the stuff, taken before meals, enables people to shed pounds. The weight-loss elixir, they told the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is ordinary water.”

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Putting an end to my daiquiri drought

By Jason WilsonSpecial to The Washington Post

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

In the unrelenting deluge of fancy new cocktails to sample, I often forget about important things. Like, for instance, I completely forgot how good a daiquiri can be. By some strange turn of events, I went almost a whole year without thinking about daiquiris. Then, suddenly, during one particularly gross, sweaty midsummer-evening trudge home, it struck me: You know what would be pretty awesome right about now? A daiquiri.

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