December 2009
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Pink Floyd (41)
Every Time I Die (33)
The Flaming Lips (27)
Monsters of Folk (15)
Circa Survive (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Good Beer Is Our Testimony
Found this testimony/ode to craft beer last night at Strange Brew Tavern in Manchester, NH that I thought was particularly awesome and wanted to share it with all of you…
GOOD BEER IS OUR TESTIMONY ~ Among their many unique talents, Americans are adept at maintaining the fiction of their individuality by means of rationalizing that a boastful allegiance to one or another mass-produced idea...
iTunes Meme
Got this from aprettygoodstart…
How many songs total: 20522 How many hours or days of music: 58.1 days
Sort by Song Title First Song: A-OK by Motion City Soundtrack Last Song: !!!!!!! by The Roots
Sort by Time Shortest Song: My Cat’s Name Is Maceo (Edit, Demo Version) by Jane’s Addiction Longest Song: Ambient Jam by Phish
Sort by Album First Album: A2G EP by...
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Review: Southern Tier Crème Brûlée Stout
Appearance - This beer pours black with a nice, thick, very inviting beige head. Great head retention & lacing from start to finish. Smell - Wow, VERY strong smell of vanilla, butterscotch, sweet caramel, sugar, etc. This is literally a dessert in a 22 oz. bottle. Very intriguing! Taste - Initial slap-in-the-face with strong vanilla & butterscotch. Some secondary flavors that come through...
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Review: Coffee Macadamia Coconut Porter
Tonight I decided to review the much-anticipated collaboration brew between Stone, Maui and Ken Schmidt. It’s a coffee macadamia coconut porter that is quite tasty. Here’s my review…
Appearance - Poured along the side of a tulip glass with a very attractive two-finger head. The head is a beige/mocha color that eventually dies down to an espresso-like film that is quite inviting....
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1st Beer Review: BBC Coffeehouse Porter
So this is my first official beer review (which you can also find here). I chose a beer that I know very well, which is the Coffeehouse Porter by Berkshire Brewing Company. Without further ado, here it is!
Appearance - This beer pours a dark brown, almost black, with a nice, creamy, beige head that stays with the beer throughout. Minimal lacing but just enough.
Smell - Very upfront scent of...
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Ux Design: Common Excise Traps
Found a list of some traps that designers get caught up in when designing user interfaces & defining the user experience. Think of this as the 9 commandments of what NOT to do when it comes to UI/UX design. Take some notes!
Don’t force users to go to another window to perform a function that affects the current window.
Don’t force users to remember where they put things in the...