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Why the old beer conversations are new again : At the risk of repeating myself . . . A) If you want to start a heated online conversation then making beer rating the theme seems to be the way to go. Witness the dust up at Beer Advocate that was followed by commentary in 718 722 beer blogs. Or the 57 comments (so far) following Stephen Beaumont’s Sh*t Online Beer Raters Do (But Shouldn’t) post. Several of the comments in the second focus on serving size. Well, I checked and it turns out NEW BEER RULE #3: You must drink at least two servings of a beer before you pass judgment on it is almost four years old. B) Yesterday Alan McLeod wrote about the arc and width of beer . His essay drew upon several blog posts and a multi-contributor Twitter conversation. Give it a read to to make complete sense or settle for the conclusion. When industrial brewers – or, for that matter, any

New Year, New Food Magazines? : I'm not sure what it is about magazine subscription deals, but they all seem to come out of the woodwork in January. I couldn't begin to count how many special subscription offers I've gotten in the last few weeks alone. My inclination is to always trash them: time is valuable, and I already receive what I like. But maybe there are a few new periodicals worth

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The Biggest News From 2011...In LEGO Form [Lego] : Celebrating the year that was a little early (a lot can happen in two weeks!), Britain's The Guardian newspaper has compiled a gallery of images showing the biggest news from 2011. Recreated as LEGO

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There really is no difference between men and women's math abilities [Debunkery] : There's a longstanding myth of a gender gap between boys' and girls' math performance, suggesting some basic biological difference in how the two genders approach math. It's deeply controversial and widely discredited. And now, a new study has completely debunked it. More » The Best Unproduced Science Fiction Screenplays of 2011, According to Hollywood Insiders [Video] : Find out what movie scripts Hollywood is bouncing up and down about — but not actually ponying up money to produce — right now. The infamous Black List, of the year's hottest unproduced screenplays, is out now. More » Darksiders II targets summer release, Wii U version at launch : Vigil Entertainment's action adventure sequel looks to be among the first titles available on Nintendo's

The Games Of Christmas ’11: Day Six : It’s the season of giving. The season of giving SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAH. (more…) Scott Hates Pokémon More Than You [Video] : If the world was overrun with Pokémon, how would you handle it? Probably better than

Gen Art: Will Sustainability be the Future of Fashion? : Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Will sustainability be part of the fashion industry in 5 to 10 years ? Do the up-and-coming fashionistas feel the green movement is even important? These were the questions running through my head as I drove to the edgy and sexy Gen Art: Fresh Faces of Fashion Show at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles on October 22, 2011. With scantily cladded biki... Read the full story on TreeHugger Abandoned Grain Silo in France Is Now an Opera House : © C + T Architectures Overlooking the port of Marseille, one of largest cities in France, used to sit an abandoned grain silo. Situated in a neighborhood slated for renovation, the emblematic and highly visible Arenc Silo, built in 1926-7, faced demolition. But rather than destroy the building and start from scratch with new materials, the City decided to transform it. For the last year, the old silo has been in service as a fully renovated opera house and th

Dead Rats Reborn as Pokémon [Pokemon] : Tokyo has a rat problem. Shibuya is crawling with "super rats". They're called "super", because the rodents seem highly resistant to rat poison. One thing these rodents aren't

Google interest in Yahoo might be head fake : Analysts say reports that Google is interested in Yahoo might only be intended to

[Videos] Rock [Heltah Skeltah] - "Banned From Radio" : Week 32 of #MonstaMondays finds Rockness going in over the classic "Banned From TV" beat Swizz Beatz

Looks Like You Picked the Wrong Week to Break Off Your Engagement! Rewatching 1954’s Gojira (Godzilla) : If social science fiction serves to provide a fanciful vessel for commentary, then the premise of Gojira might be one of the best examples ever of social commentary riding on the back of cinematic science fiction. But like many of the beloved monsters we’re discussing this week , Godzilla himself is a beast as maligned by misconceptions as he is inundated with nuclear radiation. As a child, I certainly didn’t see the original Godzilla film first, and when I did, I probably found it to be considerably more boring than say Godzilla Vs. King Kong or Godzilla Vs. the Cosmic Monster or the mega-monster orgy Destroy All Monsters! The

A Poem For Sunday : "Aristotle" by Billy Collins: This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen. This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land, the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page. Think of an egg, the letter A, a woman ironing on a bare stage as the heavy curtain rises. This is the very beginning. The first-person narrator