derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2007 | design, wines, glassware, news, rober parker
Hmmm ... I've heard people who swear by the varietal-specific glass, but all of them were convinced by one of these sales pitches. Something don't smell right, and it ain't the grape juice.
In the description, she doesn't mention how the wine was poured, how long the bottle had been open, or how many glasses were poured from the same bottle. The wine was then transferred to another glass -- why wasn't it then transferred back to confirm the initial result?
I think having one large glass with proper aeration and portioning should be enough to get the most out of anything worth drinking. In the meantime, people with bigger budgets and more cupboard space than me can live the high life.
Quoted: The bowl, the rim, the tapering of the glass — some say it matters in the tasting.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2008 | cool, javascript, design
prototype-based coverflow widget.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 26 2008 | books, design, thermo-reactive ink
Awesome.
Quoted: The book is empty or so it seems. In order to see the text and images the book has to be wrapped in foil and baked at 100°C for 25 minutes.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 16 2008 | regular expressions, openlaszlo, cool, visualization, design, finite state automata, fsa
This is awesome.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 31 2007 | design, honda, cars
Looks like a Dodge Charger breeded with a 530i.
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derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 26 2007 | ajax, icons, design, loading, useful
Very useful tool -- generate loading graphics with custom colors.
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- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2007 | .net, design, platform, datetime, datetimeoffset, datetime2
Who's on first?
Quoted: For the .NET 3.5 release, the BCL team has been trying to solve some problems related to dates, times and time zones that customers having been asking us to address for some time. We’ve invested in two significant features: TimeZoneInfo : Extended Time
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 12 2007 | google, microsoft, design, usability
Double true!
Quoted: So I was taken aback when I noticed my wife was using Google Maps on her PC to map something. I asked her why she was using Google Maps instead of our old pal Streets and Trips, and she said, quite matter of factly, "Because it's faster."
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2007 | design, architecture, news
Very nice ... glad I'm not on the cleaning crew, though.
Quoted: Wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is the most gorgeous work to date by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2007 | apple, design, laptop, hotness
Oh my, that's a pretty laptop. I don't see why more people don't apply the Apple formula ... great design firm + great engineering = droolworthy product.
Quoted: This one has it all. The slim, champagne-colored magnesium notebook—which is only a quarter of an inch thicker than a Motorola RAZR cellphone—will include a magnetically attached folder that will be available in different fashion colors. That folder will also be able to charge up the laptop wirelessly, and ladies (at whom this design is clearly aimed) can attach a strap to it and make it look just like a purse. Jeez, what else did they include in this beauty?
- tomfakes - Sep 18 2007
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Even if these glasses make a difference, there will be 20 other things that make a bigger difference when you drink your wine.
I don't think they make a technical difference, but they do make a difference to the owner because you know they cost more!
Just make sure the glass is big enough to move the wine around and don't fill it too full.
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