As part of the MN Homebrewers Club 2011 bulk cider buy, I picked up 10 gallons of un-pastuerized apple cider from Pine Tree Orchard (note – it’s not sold on their sales floor). I split it into two 5 gallon batches. 1. Another take on my well received sour cider. Same yeast (dredges of 2 …
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Easy, Amazon Prime is About Reducing Transaction Costs
“I’m not sure what free shipping has to do with free movies and now free books.” – David Pogue Amazon Prime is slowly and steadily chipping away at every barrier to a sale Amazon has – first it reduced shipping costs (both in time & price) then it turned watching a movie into an impulse …
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“Your language suggests that you are someone who thinks about the functions of objects.”
Vanonymous
“Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van Buren in situations requiring anonymity”
Qualified
There’s a very simple reason newspapers and periodicals have such a low cover price (usually a few dollars, always less than $5) and are still chock to the gills with advertising. To charge the advertisers more. The logic goes like this…. The more a reader pays – the more the actually care about what’s being …
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.”
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.” – DanielRibeiro
Now I Don’t Need To Write This Myself.
Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really …
“…the web is more cared for than owned”
As a follow up to my “Tomorrow It’s Amazon & Mozilla & Samsung” – a little self-promotion from your friends at Mozilla Firefox.
Like but Verify
“Now the fascinating thing about the Internet is that it has in theory made it easy to take a verification step and check source information instead of cascading based on others’ actions….But the Internet has also made it that much easier to spread unverified information with a single click (reblog, retweet, like). The state of …
DiveIntoMark Opts-Out
“Gone The requested resource / is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.” – diveintomark.org 10 Oct 2011 Breaking inertia is hard work. It puts up a good fight, has the upper hand, and knows when you’re not serious. This is why the …