Zebag is a versatile wine bottle storage concept that also doubles as a portable party pack (max of 6). The hexagonal Zebag holds six bottles when carrying and eleven bottles when flat. You can also use it as a wall-hanging bottle rack. Very handy when paying a visit to your favorite wine merchant!

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“A Strat is Born” takes you on a high-speed ride through the creation of a Fender Stratocaster guitar at Fender’s U.S. manufacturing facility in Corona, Calif., showing you every step from bare wood to onstage and set to a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Wayne Kramer. Glad to still see a considerable amount of hand craft in its manufacture!

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Taj Burrow captured at home in W.A by Rick Rifici on his latest High Speed Digital Camera the RED EPIC at 300 frames per Second from the Water.

Ok its been a while since my last science lecture (and they’ve stopped sending me “Popular Mechanics” since I changed addresses), so I had to reference this one. Why does electricity move along wires? Well, because the wires are made of conductive metal. Conductive metals are conductive because of things going on at the tiny scale of atoms and electrons. A conductive wire is a bit like an electron river, in which nuclei float like buoys. “Generating” electricity really just means “making the river flow”, getting those electrons to move along from one nucleus to another. That’s how electrcity is able to get from the power plant to your house. Phew! But it’s not all smooth sailing. As those electrons travel, they encounter resistance. If we could conduct electricity in a more efficient way, we wouldn’t have to generate as much to begin with.

Enter superconductivity. Turns out, there are certain materials that, when to chill them down to just the right temperature, suddenly lose all resistance. More astoundingly, you can turn some ordinary metals into superconductors by exposing them to booze.

From Technology Review:

Last year, a group of Japanese physicists grabbed headlines around the world by announcing that they could induce superconductivity in a sample of iron telluride by soaking it in red wine. They found that other alcoholic drinks also worked–white wine, beer, sake and so on–but red wine was by far the best. Now Deguchi and co have repeated the experiment with different types of red wine to see which works best. They’ve used wines made with a single grape variety including gamay, pinot noir, merlot, carbernet sauvignon and sangiovese.

It turns out that the best performer is a wine made from the gamay grape. I’m sure we will see those crafty Beaujoulais producers put a marketing spin on this very soon!

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From Stanley Kubricks’ epic horror flick “The Shining”, a delusional Jack Nicholson enjoys an imaginary scotch, talks to Lloyd a non-existant bar-tender in a ball room filled with fictional characters… making sense already? Amen!

While we’re on the subject of beer, keep a hand free to hold your date, or another bottle of beer with the Kebo. Designed by Rush3, and according to the manufacturer, “…it’ll pop your top”. It also comes in a gift-ready keepsake tin.

Modern marketing execs would like you to believe that beer and wine are mutually exclusive; its either one or the other. So let me clear up this untruth once and for all… its ok to drink both! In fact, most winemakers will even tell you that it takes a lot of ice-cold beer to make good wine.
But the scariest part of the clip, as noted by the top comment, is that this was’nt filmed in the 80′s but in modern day Invercargill.

These awesome macro shots were taken from the smooth interiors of actual music instruments. The images were taken for a poster, promoting a series of concerts for the Berlin Philharmonic.

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Its truly hard to believe, but yes, the Rolling Stones also started out small, as a cover back in fact. And, according to Richards, the Stones only got a recording contract “…because the guy had already turned down the Beatles and did’nt want to make the same mistake twice”