"The script also saw Blaze being given a demon mark as a baby, and Johnny teaming up with Seer, a sexy soothsayer he knew from his days at the circus."
"Seer, a sexy soothsayer" has the beginnings of a great tongue-twister.

"According to the Post, D.C. has one of the oldest sewage systems in the country—it hasn't been renovated since the 1800s."

Interesting. Reminds me of the article Gizmodo did several months ago on making concentrates from beer for cocktails that ended up prompting a lot of people to say "Just use malt syrup!" (Not that Gizmodo's approach wouldn't yield good results depending on the process and the beer used, I don't think)

I would have been something of an advocate for the Nexus 7 line in early 2013, despite my reservations about its limited storage, because at the time the 2012 model really had made a big difference in the market for Android tablets. I was considering upgrading from my Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 (a real champ despite…

Your mileage may vary. I love my Asus Memo Pad HD 7.

Of course, it didn't hurt that it was eighty dollars cheaper than the Nexus 7, and came with expandable storage.

Were Asus's floating app widgets ever something that appeared in their smartphone product lines? My Memo Pad HD 7 has them, but I haven't seen them or read about them any of Asus's CES 2014 offerings. They're a minor thing, sure, but I didn't realize how much I liked them as a feature until I got a comparable Android…

That's a good point — what kind of standards is Intel using for "conflict-free"? Is an outside agency/contractor/service certifying it for them? What are their standards? What's their track record making sure their clients aren't buying minerals that have had their history falsified to disguise undesirable origins?
I'm…

Reminds me of when I saw Watchmen at an IMAX theater.

Hey now. They have their merits.

That being said, yes, grainbooze has got my thumbs up. The whiskey/whisky families and the stupefying multitude of beers in particular are laudable (not to knock the gins, vodkas, and various other families of liquor or fermented beverage).

After I read this article and discovered that Old Crow had the same mash bill & yeast as JB, the primary differences being possible barreling factors and that Jim Beam White Label is aged a year longer, I did a taste test between Old Crow Reserve and Beam, and decided that if it was cheap bourbon I wanted, OCR would…

Seconding this. I live in New Angryland, same as Will Gordon, but I'm closer to New Hampshire, and good liquors that meet my saddening criteria for affordability is a short, short car ride away.

More than a couple of the things on this list would really suck to run out of — helium because of its technological utility, sardines because it's symptomatic of how hard wild fish stocks are getting hit by overfishing and fluctuating environmental conditions — and some of them, like chocolate, bacon, or wine, would…

I like the inclusion of Old Fitzgerald — a friend with a taste for Maker's Mark has inspired me to look into wheated whiskeys, and while I'd love to try Wheatfish or Spring Wheat from Montana, there aren't any stores that get shipments around where I live (according to their sites), so I appreciate the recommendation…

I'll have to keep an eye out for that. I spent the extra cash to get a bottle of Rittenhouse, and while it's splendid, I'd definitely be enthused for a cheaper rye — especially to get to know this branch of the whisk(e)y family tree better.

This is a great intro to bourbon as a process, and it's a lovely piece on a specific distillery (Four Roses is fondly regarded by a lot of my favorite blogs, drinking-focused or not). I know this was an occasion on which you were specifically invited for a tour, but I'd love to see another piece about a whiskey…

First: There's a huge omission here, if my recollection serves me right. No bourbon is made in Bourbon County today; but in the era that enshrined "bourbon" as the name of the whiskey style, Bourbon County was massive and encompassed a much greater land area and number of distilleries, including the smaller ones…

That B:TAS reference is perfect, especially given the show's version of the origin story for Clayface.

Well, by branding it the "Mega", Samsung gets to test the waters for changes to the phone/phablet format it pioneered, without necessarily tainting its "Galaxy Note" brand (unless this just turns out to be infamously bad). Personally, I think it's totally unnecessary, and just kind of wish Samsung would release a new…

Is there any research into how graphene materials (much less these graphene-metal combos) react to/withstand heat and pressure?

Those aren't the worst thing. C'mon. You're essentially getting free cookies with wine. (Or free wine with cookies, if you want to get philosophical/ascribe an overly high value to Chips Ahoy.)