Topic: MAKE - on October 29, 2007 at 9:32:00 AM CET
Winemaking
Jack Keller's winemaking site has not only the basics of home winemaking in 5 parts, but also information on more advanced topics, including acidity, blending, and using a hydrometer. Equally interesting is his extensive collection of recipes for making wines out of things other than grapes, including dandelions and other edible flowers, wild plants (including nettles!), cabbages and beets, tea and coffee, mint, pomegranates, and pumpkins. A complete list of recipes is here, if you'd like to click through alphabetically, and a list of specially-requested recipes is here.
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Topic: ART - on October 29, 2007 at 9:29:00 AM CET
Cool Wired Art
Wedged somewhere between the worlds of weird hobbies and goatee-stoking high art is Bent Objects, a site that exhibits funky, satirical objects d’art by an eccentric American artist named Terry Border.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 29, 2007 at 9:18:00 AM CET
Seeds of rebel's U.S. pot fight grew in Canada
To anyone who has followed the principled opposition of London, Ont. native Marc Emery to everything from a ban on Sunday shopping and potty mouthed rap videos to draconian laws against marijuana possession, his current status as drug martyr facing a possible life sentence in a dank U.S. prison can hardly come as a surprise.
I still remember Emery as the loquacious proprietor of the downtown indie book store, City Lights, during my mid-'80s tenure as a student at the University of Western Ontario.
Prince of Pot - Part One
Prince of Pot - Part TwoPrince of Pot - Part ThreePrince of Pot - Part FourPrince of Pot - Part FiveSeeds of rebel's U.S. pot fight grew in Canada
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Topic: PHOTO - on October 29, 2007 at 9:14:00 AM CET
30 Years of Contact Press Images
Contact Press Images celebrated 30 years of remarkable photography in 2006. Founded by Robert Pledge and David Burnett in 1976, the agency has maintained its involvement with humanitarian and human-rights issues. This involves the responsibility to understand an issue and see that it could have consequences beyond the borders of one’s own town, region or country.
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Topic: PHOTO - on October 29, 2007 at 9:11:00 AM CET
Houses with a View
From the densely populated regions appear, the skyscrapers of the city behind you! In this 2008 show GEO-Kalender GEO-Fotografen houses in great nature, the dream of living and freedom symbolizing.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 29, 2007 at 8:59:00 AM CET
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
Talk to almost anyone in the music business' vital indie and DJ scenes and you'll encounter a uniformly optimistic picture of the vinyl market.
"I'm hearing from labels and distributors that vinyl is way up," said Ian Connelly, client relations manager of independent distributor alliance IODA, in an e-mail interview. "And not just the boutique, limited-edition colored vinyl that Jesu/Isis-style fans are hot for right now."
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