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Yards Brewing Company, based in Philadelphia, has an "Ales of the Revolution" series with beer recipes based on those used by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.

I tried the "Thomas Jefferson Tavern Ale" which was good, Belgian-y but with a light body.

I'm curious to try the "Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale" which uses molasses in place of barley malt and spruce in place of hops.

This is a song that my brother, mother, and I used to love listening to on the Dr. Demento show a few decades ago.

I don't know why I was thinking of this - just one of those memories that popped up uninvited. I asked whether the Internet had a copy, and the answer was "yes".

The song is by Mark Johnathan Davis A.K.A. Richard Cheese, who now makes a living (with his band, "Lounge Against the Machine") "swankifying" popular songs (imagine Dean Martin covering Nirvana)

His voice is uncannily similar to the guy from Barenaked Ladies

http://www.richardcheese.com/

The Word Garden is a new collaboration at St. Michael's College in Colchester Vermont, as part of their Teaching Gardens

- Similar to magnetic poetry, but with stones outside

- A good example of staff and faculty from different departments working together.

- A set of 350 words from the stone artist, Chris Cleary (On the Rocks Stonecarving Studio).

http://www.youtube.com/SaintMichaels

This was made in 2003

This is something that conveys a history in a way that text and photos simply cannot: The Cold War as a dialogue that turns into a shouting match, with peaks at times of tension and lulls after treaties are signed, with newcomers popping up regularly.

It's a shame the data is only through 1998, although the madness waned quickly in the early 90s and there isn't as much to see.

1958 must have been a scary year.

sixfoottallrabbit made an implementation of Conway's Game of Life in HTML 5. (more)

Related is this First replicating creature spawned in life simulator

"'365' is a knitting clock created by german designer siren elise wilhelmsen. according to wilhelmsen, time is a concept which unites us all, making it the lowest common denominator. on the one hand, time appears to be a as physical phenomenon, logical and easily divided into the past, present and future. on the other hand, time can be viewed very subjectively. how long a minute, an hour or a year takes can depend on how time is experienced in different situations. however, this does not alter the fact that a day has 24 hours, one hour has 60 minutes and one minute has 60 seconds.

'365' seeks to give a physical manifestation to the change of time. drawing from the change that is witnessed through the growth of human bodies and hair, the same concept is found in '365' which translates time through the growth of knitted material. the clock houses a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder and roll of yarn. moving in clockwise direction, one day leads to a complete round, while a year gives users 2 meters of a complete scarf."

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/10606/siren-elise-wilhelmsen...

Another strip in the mnftiu style where existing drawings are used instead of original drawings.

http://wondermark.com/

These lamps are fun. They remind of Pixar's Luxo

http://makersmarket.com/seller/kozolamp

This is the most educated comic series I've ever seen. Few places have Nikola Tesla and St. Francis of Assisi conversing on the same page as spoofs (spooves?) of Jane Austin, Shakespeare, and Euripides.

Kate Beaton also has a wonderful style and inking quality that makes even the less-funny strips nice to look at.

One of the best qualities of the strips is the voice. For most comics, reading them in your head sounds very flat, where Beaton's characters seem very real. I can hear actors saying the lines when I read them.

1 - You drop something and your left hand instinctively reaches out to press Ctrl-Z

2 - You receive a handwritten note and instinctively scan the top looking for a timestamp

3 - You try to write a handwritten note but you spend so much time looking for paper and pen or pencil that you give up and just write an email

4 - You try to write a handwritten note but your hand cramps after just 2 or 3 words

5 - You mentally categorize people without email addresses as 'Dead'

6 - When you hear a song you like on the radio/PA system you try to vote it up