February 2010
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Proper Beer Serving Techniques
Temperatures: (From Real beer)
Serve fruit beers at 40-50° F.
Serve wheat beers and pale lagers at 45-50° F.
Serve pale ales and amber or dark lagers at 50-55° F.
Serve strong ales, such as barley wines and Belgian ales, at 50-55° F.
Serve dark ales, including porters and stouts, at 55-60° F.
However to store draft (keg, growlers) beer, the proper temperature is 38 ° F. Do not drink...
January 2010
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The Lure and Lie of Libertarian Gay Rights →
Even if the government abandoned licensing marriages altogether, the Libertarians are pretty much silent on other crucial gay-rights issues: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, hate-crimes legislation, employment non-discrimination and adoption, to name a few. Individuals, largely comfortable with the status quo, aren’t going to be the driving force behind wide-scale, systemic social change. Individuals weren’t...
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The revenue of the sublime:
$1,878,025,999
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law...”
– Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 1/27/2010 (via keepyourselfwarm)
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Fed Policy
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn’t you tell the world, EH?
Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
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“I am typing this laying with the computer in the air above me being held up by...”
– Les Buford (on internet exercise) (via laserguided)
This is the kind of internet I can get behind.
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Trade in Medieval europe
Today in Property rights we learned about the rise of merchant guilds.
They started as a way to incorporate trade cartels for political power. They could bargain with kings for better taxes and establish higher profits for their members.
This eventually lead to large trade centers becoming fiscal centers and centers of governmental rule. The laws protecting fiscal property arose as a way to...
Watchrideadove:
some music for a loud sunday afternoon.
crunchy like drywall screws.
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“You should have someone film you throwing up on people, places, expensive cars,...”
– M.S.
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I want my fine liquor and expensive Cigars:
So Mark Boyle. Has managed to live out with out money. Good for you Mark!
Let me list a couple things that you need money (as an economy) to get:
Healthcare. But maybe you have perfect genes so you will not get any genetics disorders later in your life. I also hope teeth aren’t too important to you. Maybe its just a conspiracy anyways, humans don’t need teeth. Maybe your skin is...
WatchDoing it with style.
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eastling:
Is there anything kitschier than salt & pepper shakers? Honestly. And this is what I’m supposed to be designing for this class. Spoons in one class, salt & pepper shakers in another… Thank God for my glass class or I’d wonder if I was even in an art school anymore.
Grandmas spoon racks for her antique spoon collection. Across the kitchen from the wall of about 900 coffee...
Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian →
I caught him watching The 700 Club once when he thought he was alone in the house, and last week, I found some paperbacks from the Left Behind series hidden in his sock drawer,” his mother, Eileen Faber, said. “I’m sure he’ll grow out of it, but even if he doesn’t, I will love and accept my son no matter what
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The Insinceres
rinich:
Don’t read a book to become ambiguously “smarter”. Don’t write a song so that you become ambiguously “popular”. If you don’t know specifically what you’re trying to do with something, you’re doing it by rote rather than doing it entirely consciously. Once you’ve decided that you only do something to achieve something else, once you’ve established that relationship between two things,...
