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A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.

Ahhh! Tasty.

Mr. T With a Blowtorch

I guess we now know where the A-Team got the work done on their custom van. With the red spoiler on the roof. Considering the amount of automatic weapons fire that van was subjected to each week, I'm guessing these guys have Bondo delivered by the pallet-load... It's...

This Week in Paid Content Sept. 19-25

I was at the Digital Family Summit here in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where entrepreneur Jason Calacanis taped an edition of his “This week in startups” online video show. Check it out – he runs down the basic differences in what’s going on with tech startups – basically, that companies previously got funding 1) during Dot-com 1.0 by just trying to get a big audience, before crashing & burning in the dot-bomb crash; 2) building up interesting features and exiting by selling out to Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc.; and now 3) everyone has to prove in their business plans that they are going to start generating revenue RIGHT AWAY http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009/09/twist-episode-18-with-mike-jones-and-peter-hirschberg/#more-419 Bonus: about halfway through, Jason takes my question that I submitted through Twitter; and if you don’t think it’s hard typing with one hand on an iPhone while juggling a camera and cocktail, well, *you* try it

Digital Family – audience in courtyard

Digital Family - audience in courtyard, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This shows the impressive turnout at the Digital Family Summit event; actually, it falls a little short, because there was also quite a crowd hidden back and to the left, by the bar (heh). The...

apparently goats thinks my shoes taste good

apparently goats thinks my shoes taste good, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This guy would just not leave my shoes alone. We hiked up and down the jungle ridges, and he wove in and out between my legs, and kept trying to chomp on my shoes every time I paused. He did...

contented jaguar

contented jaguar, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This guy's name is Rafa. He's smiling in his sleep at the Rescue Shelter Las Pumas, where he's safe from the hunters and the men who captured him from his mother because he had a thorn in his paw and couldn't run fast...

Why Sip?

Because surfing the Internet is like drinking from a firehose, David LaFontaine braves the torrent to tell you what trends and technologies to gulp down, swirl in your mouth, or spit out.

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