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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Beer Review: 250th Anniversary Guinness

My wife and I both like Guinness Drought so we were excited when we heard Guinness was releasing a special 250th Anniversary Beer.  Arthur Guinness founded Guinness Brewery in 1759. The special 250th anniversary beer was a little hard to find in the U.S.; however, Wegman’s Grocery Stores and Total Wine both carry the product [...]

Goat’s Milk

One of my wife’s coworkers owns two goats that she milks in the morning and evening.  She was nice enough to give my wife a big jar of goat’s milk to take home.  Good stuff. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src [...]

Automatic Train Control System May Have Led to Fatal Metrorail Accident

The Washington Post reports: A train control system that should have prevented Monday’s deadly Metro crash failed in a test conducted by federal investigators, officials said yesterday, suggesting that a crucial breakdown of technology sent one train slamming into another… The findings suggest that the oncoming train in Monday’s crash might not have received information [...]

Steam Powered Motorcycle

Here’s a video of a vintage steam powered motorcycle in action: Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));

Do Plug-In Electric Cars Make Sense?

Hi-tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis seems to be going goo goo ga ga over plug-in cars.  Additionally, many environmentalists and politicians think plug-in electric cars are the answer to today’s problems. Potential Problems However, low-tech writer Kris de Decker points out some potential problems with relying electric batteries to power our automobiles: The electric car is [...]