Immersion Blending Wine
Tim Ferris (of the The 4-Hour Work Week fame), has got a post out on “Hyper-decanting” wine to “age” it very quickly.
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World’s Best Bars 2011
The list of the top 50 bars in the world have been announced by Drinks International. London is represented very well, with 5 of the top 10 bars. 12 of the top 50 bars are based over here. For comparison, 8 of the top 50 are based in New York, and 3 of the top [...]
Heh heh - I know, right? I thought it was bitter-sweet news too. The last few times we've been there ...
We're just gonna have to avoid peak times by starting to drink earlier in the day...
Before I die. Cool project
Candy Chang has created a fantastic project called “Before I Die”. She took a derelict building and painted a wall with blackboard paint. There are spaces where people can write down one thing they want to do before they die. Very cool.
“Nevermore” quoth the Paperclip
I sit at my keyboard tapping, many formats o’er lapping, searching for a template for a letter to Lanore. Lanore, my Facebook friend long-standing, but my distance she’s demanding, a restraining order landing, with the full force of the law. So I’m at the keyboard thinking, with my broken heart a-sinking, trying to find the [...]
Squid Wars
Another flash story, this one written in about 30 minutes. Any resemblence to real life characters is purely coincidental (no shotgun blasts to the face for me, thank you very much). “Red Leader, you are cleared for attack”. How did I find myself here; a marine biologist attacking an American space station armed with a [...]
You, me and her
Life was so much simpler when it was just the two of us. We’d explore such avenues of thought together, you and I. Walking arm in arm through the boulevards of well-established fact before ducking down a muddy alley and romping in the puddles of the arcane. I came to trust you, to lean on [...]
@Laura Hey Laura, I agree... although it is a close run thing ;-)
Ha! Like this one the best :)
How I ended up in Hell
(This is a flash story – a story written in 15 minutes on a train to Wales) Want to know how I ended up in Hell? It was Billy’s stag night and so far a total disaster. Because of Billy’s best friend Bobby, we were sitting at a raw food restaurant in London – a [...]
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Try to get to sleep after watching this! Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty from Darragh O'Connell on Vimeo.
The Future is Addictive
I read Paul Graham’s essay on the acceleration of addictiveness this morning, and it really struck a chord. I feel as though it is almost impossible to become bored these days, there is so much to do. Is this because the world is getting more addictive, or just because I have gotten older and have [...]
Great Paraprosdokians, Batman!
I saw this thread on Reddit and thought I’d make a list of my favourite Paraprosdokian expressions. “If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards.” “I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.” “I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.”