Common chemical may cause defects in baby boys - Yahoo! News
For the first time, scientists have shown that pregnant mothers exposed to high but common levels of a widely used ingredient in cosmetics, fragrances, plastics and paints can have baby boys with smaller genitals and incomplete testicular descent.
DVD Blu-ray war is a battle of surpassing egotism
And the side that is more friendly to pirates is likely to win, says the Inquirer.
How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot
Reader Bennett adds the following:
- When they say “cleanliness is a huge concern with brewers, because any unwanted microorganisms or residual chemicals can taint the beer” they’re understating matters dramatically. It’s exceedingly difficult to be sanitary enough. When I brewed beer, the practice my friend taught me was to keep around a huge tub of chlorox water, about a teaspoon of chlorox per gallon. Everything that ever touched the beer was first rinsed in this water. Hands were routinely dipped in it after washing. The tiny traces of chlorox introduced into the beer are insignificant, only a fraction of a teaspoon of water was left on any surface, just by shaking it out, but that trace was crucial: yeasts and molds and bacteria floating around in the air can’t survive on such a surface. In his procedure, this would start with wetting down the canning jars before the wort is poured in the first time, and would cover everything that touches the wort or the beer from then on. I’d have that cheesecloth wet with it when I put it on, and my hands would be wet with it during this handling process.
- “Pour the strained liquid back into the water-heating chamber.” The implication here is that the coffee maker will be thrown out after no more than a few batches of beer, and will never be usable for anything else. That strained liquid has already got some of the malted barley’s sugars dissolved in it, they’ll produce a crust of baked-on scunge on the heating element that will never come off.
And a final note: the result of this exercise will be a beer like
you’ve never seen before. Just with the preparation given in the
article, you’ll have a Real Ale, which is very, very lightly
carbonated, and best drunk cool (cellar temperature) rather than
cold, for a full flavour. Very yeasty, very yummy. To get the
strongly carbonated beer with a big head that’s good to serve cold,
you need another step.After about 7-10 days of brewing, start daily checking the specific
gravity of your wort (a specific gravity meter is a little gizmo
that floats at a height that you can read, that indicates the
density of the beer, which changes as yeasts turn sugar into
alcohol, a far more valuable and civic contribution to the world
than most congresscritters can claim). Once the specific gravity
stops dropping, it’s time to bottle.Take enough reclosable beer bottles to hold your batch, and immerse
them and their caps in the chlorox water. If you’ve got a bottle-cap
crimp tool this can be all-glass bottles with no paper labels (or
with the paper labels soaked and scrubbed off), or reclosable
bottles like Grolsch bottles.Pull the bottles out of the chlorox water, shaking the excess off,
and stack them upright. With a carefully-sterilized but dry spoon,
measure 1/4 tsp of corn sugar into each bottle; this is extra food
for the yeasts. Then siphon the beer (siphon starts off wet with the
chlorox water) into the bottles, and cap them with wet caps.Two weeks later they’ll be carbonated by the yeasts working that
last touch of sugar into alchol and CO2, the latter trapped in the
sealed bottle. I’ve heard this called “natural krusening”.We’d open one bottle after two weeks, then another after a month,
then another a few months later; we usually found that the beer kept
getting better for about a year or so.
Miscellaneous TV: In Search of Cruise Control
I’ve been seeing screen caps all week from Tom Cruise’s freaky appearance on Oprah recently. TVGasm has put up a copy for all of us to enjoy. (embedded winmedia?)
B3TA : FEATURES : PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS
Because there’s nothing like a little peen to get you up in the morning.
vi reference mug : geekcheat.com - cheat sheets for geeks! : Geek : Marketplace : CafePress.com
To be honest, I’d be more likely to throw this mug than utilize it during my ultra-rare vi sessions. Cool, regardless. Think Geek should have come up with this idea, heh.
Suicide hotline to open only from 9 to 5 - Yahoo! News
When I was a teen my mom had me do a faux suicide hotline answering machine message telling would-be callers to off themselves as we can’t take their call. Mom is a sicko. >:)
U.S. shuts down network that leaked ‘Star Wars’ - Yahoo! News
Yet the man responsible for the Phantom Menace still goes unpunished.
And to think just a short while ago I was reading the latest issue of Premiere with the new Batman on the cover with blurb and cool pic of the new Batmobile included.
The winamp ipod plugin (aka ml_ipod) is a plugin for winamp. It allows you to manage your iPod from within the winamp media library. It supports all kinds of iPods, from the classic first generation iPods, to the iPod shuffle and the latest models.
360 Electrical - It’s Revolutionary!
This could be extremely useful in my house. Sockets that rotate. More kinds of sockets (like power strips) are on their way.
Soldiers’ spoof Iraq video crashes computers - Yahoo! News
Well… my confidence in the armed forces has risen…
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