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"A distinctive refreshing Whisky. This very concentrated essence produces a clean tasting clean..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:04:28 +0100

“A distinctive refreshing Whisky. This very concentrated essence produces a clean tasting clean Whisky. A rich golden full flavoured single malt whisky style. As you sip this you can almost hear the sound of bagpipes & smell the peat fires burning. Still Spirits most popular product. Developed in conjunction with hardened whisky drinkers this one is sure to warm your cockles. Makes 1 x 1 Ltr bottle. Mix sachet contents with 1 Ltr of 40% ABV alcohol and mix together. Simple.”

- W. T. F.
This is now on my to buy list…

Shopping for Spirits

"My father taught school for 35 years. He said he often heard students complain “It isn’t..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:52:03 +0100

“My father taught school for 35 years. He said he often heard students complain “It isn’t fair,” and invariably it meant “It’s not favorable to me.” The people who are upset that they don’t get a reasonable chance to get bottles like this don’t seem to understand that they are part of the demand that makes them so difficult to get. Just let it go…once you realize that you really don’t have to have any particular bottle, you cease to be a part of the problem, and you no longer care who gets these bottles or how.”

- Mr Tattie Heid putting into words my constant annoyance at a section of the whisky community.

Whisky Whisky Whisky Forum • Scotch and World Whisky Forum • View topic - Altruistic or greedy?

"Of course at this point the damage to their brand will end up being much greater than the promotion..."

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:50:47 +0100

“Of course at this point the damage to their brand will end up being much greater than the promotion gained by their stunt.”

- I suspect it will have the same amount of an effect on sales as the BrewDog thing will for Diageo. None.

Krug Champagne Exploits Burning Man Event With Publicity Stunt Featuring Staged Photoshoot of an Elaborate Dinner Party

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:33:41 +0100

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

"Look, you dicks. There’s already too much social media in the world without signing up to another..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:33:33 +0100

“Look, you dicks. There’s already too much social media in the world without signing up to another pile of awful, time-consuming, mimsying, pale pink, Bello Script poncery. There’s so much social media that some people actually do it for a fucking job. Imagine that. Imagine that your job basically involves going on Twitter and writing “Hey everyone, Branston Pickle still exists! Woo!” 12 times a fucking day. Imagine doing that for a living. You’d want to kill yourself, wouldn’t you? You’d want to fling yourself under anything capable of squishing your miserable torso into marmalade. When people do social media for a job, it’s a pretty good sign that there’s too much social media.”

- LUV & HAT

This is a perfect example of why I should read the comic before...

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:08:35 +0100

This is a perfect example of why I should read the comic before looking at the caption at the bottom.

(via xkcd: Visited)

(via Do WHAT? - Imgur)

Fri, 04 May 2012 19:36:04 +0100

(via Do WHAT? - Imgur)

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:52:35 +0100

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that’s already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for? You don’t, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0100

Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that’s already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for? You don’t, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.

"Boris: So will you be voting for me? Me: No, sorry Boris: Well, will you at least put me second?"

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:25:08 +0100

“Boris: So will you be voting for me?
Me: No, sorry
Boris: Well, will you at least put me second?”

- That’s not something I’ve thought about when it comes to AV systems - campaigning to be at least someone’s number 2 choice…

I met Boris Johnson today - drblack’s posterous

"They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies”. I..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:48:19 +0100

“They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies”. I don’t know which wacky re-cut version of Star Wars they’ve been watching, but I saw the original when I was about six years old and even then I was struck by how outrageously camp C3PO is. He was a gilded John Inman in space. And what about Luke Skywalker? Apart from briefly kissing his own sister, he shows no interest in women whatsoever. The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually “comes out” as a Jedi. The final scene oozes symbolism: having penetrated the Death Star’s trench in his phallic spacecraft, he closes his eyes, submits to his true inner instinct and triumphantly blasts his X-Wing’s seed into an anus-like aperture, causing an orgasmic eruption that changes his universe for ever. It’s hard to see how they could make Star Wars any gayer, unless they gave the Millennium Falcon a handlebar moustache.”

- Charlie Brooker: Some people are gay in space. Get over it | Comment is free | The Guardian

"In terms of user experience, Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA,..."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:33:00 +0100

“In terms of user experience, Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA, forever….”

- Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out — Daily Intel

"Can I play a new song? When it gets to the breakdown, will you bang your small head? I mean, your..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:34:44 +0100

““Can I play a new song? When it gets to the breakdown, will you bang your small head? I mean, your head is small compared to the rest of the universe. I want to see everyone out there banging your small head. And all of you in the balconies, don’t think we can’t see you up there! I want you to bang your head also. Will you bang your head for me? This song is called ‘Head Bang.’””

- Andrew W.K. may be a being constructed of pure party but he knows how to work a crowd.

The 5 Best Things Andrew W.K. Said at Monday Night’s Show | NBC New York

"In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:09:19 +0100

“

In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals.

In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.

It’s now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.

”

- Most geeky backstory evar.

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This is a marvellous thing. And I don’t even particularly...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:26:27 +0100

This is a marvellous thing. And I don’t even particularly like kittens:

A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Just put your image size (width & height) after our URL and you’ll get a placeholder. (via {placekitten})

I don’t know where this came from, but it has made my...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:08:34 +0100

I don’t know where this came from, but it has made my week. It is 10:15am on Monday.

"Strainers: I would advise you to get two types of strainers — a Hawthorne Strainer for use with the..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:40:51 +0100

“Strainers: I would advise you to get two types of strainers — a Hawthorne Strainer for use with the Boston tin and a Julep Strainer for use with a mixing glass.”

- It’s scary when an incredible simple and obvious bit of advice, which you had been following without having realised it, suddenly clicks home and makes you go ‘Oooooh, I see’. This is one of those times. I am slightly ashamed.

How To Build A Home Cocktail Bar | Food Republic

blech: Creative Review: We Will Show You Where The Goal Is...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:33:45 +0100

blech:

Creative Review: We Will Show You Where The Goal Is (via):

As a last resort [Magdeburg’s] fans gave them some extra, highly visual, support during last Sunday’s match against BAK ‘07…

Before the game fans were seen handing out giant brightly-coloured arrows to fellow supporters. As the match started it became clear that the green, yellow and orange cut-outs would be used, swarm-style, to help indicate to the Magdeburg players where the goal was. A kind of in-game, responsive wayfinding system as they no doubt didn’t call it.

"Sheri S. Tepper’s The Waters Rising (Gollancz) – how can one describe it? For fuck’s sake, it is a..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:53:51 +0100

“Sheri S. Tepper’s The Waters Rising (Gollancz) – how can one describe it? For fuck’s sake, it is a quest saga and it has a talking horse. There are puns on the word ‘neigh’.”

- Christopher Priest comments on the Clarke Awards. I half agree with some his points about content, but not necessarily that it makes the content bad. That said, I like the above description rather a lot.

Hull 0, Scunthorpe 3 | Christopher Priest, author

"…so what the hell is this ‘first ever’ World Whisky Day nonsense all about? This..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:43:42 +0100

“…so what the hell is this ‘first ever’ World Whisky Day nonsense all about? This winds me up. Next we’ll have some idiot coming along and claiming they invented Christmas Day when everyone knows it was the Baby Jesus that invented it.”

- There’s been some contention about World/International Whisky Day within the booze community. That aside, this is my favourite comment on the whole issue. I really hope it was meant sarchastically.

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