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2007 Autumn Festival of Ales
Spent the day at the Custom Brewcrafter’s Festival of Ales.  Definitely a lot of fun, food, and most importantly, beer.
I don’t know if I am going to rush out and buy any of the beers I had there, but there were a few that I wouldn’t mind having again.  Custom Brewcrafter’s [...]

 because I want to see what this house looks like in the rain
MAKE: Blog: Rube Goldberg does drains
Check out this crazy-cool drainage system on an apartment building in Dresden, Germany. Unfortunately there’s no other info besides the pic.

The FWA: FWA’s Ad World – showcasing creative advertising

awesome ads from LEGO.
via Lovely LEGO Silhouette Advertisements – Boing Boing Gadgets

Secrets Revealed! Decode Those Weird Symbols on Consumer Electronics.

You can thank the ISO for this warning of an electrocution hazard, which should be interpreted as “don’t go poking around in here.” You do not want your trusty micro- screwdriver to turn into the path of least resistance.
What 8 semi-common symbols on electronics mean.

Little Rock Nine mark 50th anniversary – Yahoo! News
LITTLE ROCK – The Little Rock Nine, who as students were escorted by federal soldiers into the all-white Central High School because they were black, marveled at the celebrity-like fanfare they received on the 50th anniversary of the event Tuesday. But they cautioned that racial divides still [...]

Amazon.com MP3 Downloads: Popular music, classical music, new releases and more, in MP3 format
Somebody finally does it right, and legitimately.
Its also cheaper than iTunes crap.
I want to hear music randomly, and they didn’t have the first song I thought of, Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah but they did have some other music from [...]

HPL: Essays – Harry Potter and the Good Life
Genuine courage lies on a mean between cowardice and recklessness. Excellences of character generally follow the same pattern, each lying between extremes of excess and deficiency, as Aristotle observes.
I was trying to find a good quote for some things that were said in business ethics and ended [...]

J a n c e e D u n n: J.C. Penney’s 1975 catalog: Not Suitable For Young Children

Finally, take a look at the top right-hand corner. Yes, J.C. Penney water pipes, which ‘can be smoked by 3 persons at one time.’ In the catalog copy, they don’t even bother writing ‘for tobacco use only.’
Damn [...]

Burglars leave goat curled up on a bed – New Zealand’s source for oddstuff – strange, weird & bizarre news on Stuff.co.nz
A couple returned to their rented Shiel Street house at midnight on Thursday to find they had been burgled of 47 CDs, a bottle of Jagermeister herbal liqueur and $375 cash.
The woman – who [...]

Facing attitude problems at MTA — baltimoresun.com
Somehow I have the image of some chastened bureaucrat standing in front of a blackboard in a drab MTA conference room after everyone else has gone home, writing:
“I shall not slip Simpsons references into official documents.”
don’t really feel like saying anything clever, but the sample bus schedule is funny [...]

Cribs Recalled After Deaths of 2 Children – New York Times
A faulty drop-rail side in several crib models made by the company can detach and create a small space where infants can become trapped, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency said the problem stemmed from a hardware and design flaw that allows [...]

Peace Day – September 21
The International Day of Peace
Peace Day – September 21
Fark said it best with
Today is the International Day of Peace so try not to smash anybody in the pie hole for the next 24 hours

ZUG: Comedy Articles: The Roommates’ Code
Fights have erupted, leases have been broken, and bros have indeed become foes over the smallest of incidents that, left unchecked, fester and stew in the hearts of seemingly peaceful cohabitants. In an effort to avoid these fights, my roommates and I have convened and agreed upon the following Code [...]

Free speech’s price? $100 a day
Zaki is willing to gamble as much as $10,000 on hiring legal representation to contest the fine and the Web site ban, but his wife, Eugenia, is nervous, because, as she says, “this is Florida,” and “you never know.”
“I’m one of the original property owners,” says Bennett, who came to [...]

Lemon Squeezer Screw – Boing Boing Gadgets
Of course I will remain an idle wonderer about such matters, because it sells for a ridiculous $40. Do you know how many lemons you could buy for forty bucks? All of them.
I lol’d.  who cares about the lemon squeezer, I just buy the damn juice if I want [...]