Beers n Ales by Darren Moloney (cc by)
From my personal experience brewing alone and with better brewers, these are some advantages that a home brewer can have over a big brewery ... in the Anchor Brewing Co. closure thread, Dr. Curare has a great in-depth comment on home brewing that should be fascinating even to non-aficionados.
Wild grain by ibm4381 (cc by)
clew's post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that "shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat."
Finnish Beer Float via kaljakellunta.org
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world, enchanting, mysterious and magnetic:
"Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie" was produced, written, directed, shot, and edited by Nabwana IGG from his home in Wakaliga, Uganda for under $200, using real blood and a modified car jack for a tripod
In Cesena, Italy, a year long-project of getting one thousand musicians to play Foo Fighter's "Learn To Fly," in an effort to convince the band to do a show in their town
The annual beer float in Helsinki, Finland just kind of happens (note to self: poss Mefi competitive sport idea?)
Malaysian schoolkids perform choral speaking, a Greek-theatre-inspired cross between spoken word and choir
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