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Best beer tastings of winter 2010

Thomas — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:57:23 +0000

Below is a list of the best new local beer that I have tasted this winter. I’m not very talented at describing the taste of beer—so I’m not going to try reviewing the beers. You can follow the links below to Rate Beer for more detailed information on taste, smell, and looks of each of the beers.

However, I do have to say that the Mikkeller Big Worst is nothing less than transcendent! Try it if you get the chance—and if you dare.

Mikkeller, Big Worst, Barley Wine
Mikkeller, Oatgoop, Barley/Oat Wine
Mikkeller, Single Hop Amarillo IPA, IPA
Mikkeller, Single Hop Tomahawk IPA, IPA
Djævlebryg, Pride of Nekron, Imperial Stout

Kurt Vile: Freeway

Thomas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:49:49 +0000

One of my favorite songs of 2009 was Kurt Vile’s Freeway. The song is available as a free download at the Free Music Archive.

Disc Golf—my new recreational hobby

Thomas — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:59:08 +0000

Last summer while vacating in California I got the chance to play Disc Golf (yes, it’s golf but played with a frisbee (or disc as it’s preferably called because Frisbee is a registered trademark of the toy company Wham-O)).

If you want a little taste of what it’s all about then try watching this this promotional video:

It’s much more fun to play Disc Golf than to watch it on TV, of course, and it’s both easy and cheap to get started. I have quite a collection of discs already (see below) and most places around the world (and especially in the US) have disc golf courses nearby.

If you are around Copenhagen let me know if you want to meet up and have a game.

My golf discs. Each disc has different flight characteristics; some fly long (drivers), some short (putters), and some fly more easilty to the left and some to the right.

Mikkeller D.V. Jørgensen song

Thomas — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:13:36 +0000

This is a funny tribute to one of the best (in my humble opinion) microbrew beers in Denmark at the moment, Mikkeller.

Big wall of books

Thomas — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:51:09 +0000

An amazing wall of books made by computer graphics rendering. It’s a submission made by students to an architecture competition for the Stockholm Public Library. It’s interesting to see how it was made.

Via The Long Now Blog.

Happy New Beer!

Thomas — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:47:05 +0000

Here’s to a happy new year 2010!

Got some new beers for x-mas:

AleSmith: IPA
Founders: Curmudgeon Old Ale

and last but certainly not least:

Mikkeller/Three Floyds: Oatgoop

Now all we need is a good occasion for tasting them—so much good beer, so little time.

Historical street views from Nørrebro, Copenhagen

Thomas — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:10:59 +0000

The Local Historial Society of Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark, has released a map of historical photographs from the neighborhood of Nørrebro. The map is made using the Google Maps API and contains 50+ photos from the 1910s up to the 1970s.

The map makes it easy to find interesting photos from the area and also contains geocoded articles from Wikipedia about places in Nørrebro.

Google Maps street views

Thomas — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:55:37 +0000

At the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week, Google presented yet another feature addition to Google Maps: Street Views (read the Google LatLong blog for the announcement including a video presentation of Street View).

Cool features include: interactive pan, zoom and navigation with the use of the mouse and full screen viewing mode. Here are some examples of my past hour (yes, it’s really addictive) of “driving” around the streets of San Francisco:

Also seen above to the lower right is an example of the new 2.5D maps in Google Maps.

For direct links to Google Maps of the examples above: Upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right.

So far only areas in and around Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco are covered by Street View, but I’m sure more cities will be included shortly as this is a very valuable addition to the usual aerial photograps and topographic maps.

Via O’Reilly Radar.

Map your blog with GeoRSS & Google Maps

Thomas — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:58:46 +0000

GeoRSS is a nice format for adding location to RSS feeds—and recently Google Maps was extended with GeoRSS capabilities.

This blog publishes a GeoRSS feed via the GeoPress plugin (see previous post GeoPress) and to illustrate the capabilites I will tag this post with the location coordinates (latitude,longitude) = 37.87,-122.3, which is where I am currently located (for those who wonders how those geographic coordinates translates to a geographic placename, I’m at UC Berkeley in San Francisco’s Bay Area).

Now, to view this blog’s GeoRSS feed in Google Maps , all we have to do is to go to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://blog.makemaps.net/rss2

Via O’Reilly Radar.

Coexist

Thomas — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:45:25 +0000

Sticker advocating for peaceful coexistence between bikes and cars, the archrivals of traffic: