Month: December 2005

My friend Saul sent a link to this movie about how beer is made. A very interesting tour of the Anchor Steam brewery in San Francisco.

On another note, Andy and I made a nice lager earlier this year that tasted amazingly like Anchor Steam beer. Don pointed out to me that we used a California yeast … leave it to Don to i.d. the beer facts.

A blog written by ex-Google employees. Kind of a ‘behind the music’ for the hippest tech company in the land.

Minneapolis is ranked ahead of St Paul in terms of literacy. On the up side, both cities are in the top 10, which makes Minnesota the only state nationwide with two cities in the top 10.

The rankings are interesting to me because they attempt to measure internet access, libraries, and newspaper circulation in separate categories. A place like Seattle ( ranked #1 overall) is first in internet access (well, duh!) but nowhere on the newspaper circulation list. A sign of the times…

My friend Bob passed along this note last week:

 Fortunately, you can get around it: 1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar. 2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer. 3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins 4. Set the value to 2. The possible values are: * 0: Allow all popups from plugins. * 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum. * 2: Block popups from plugins. * 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.