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...from a lower base). Innovative marketing has helped: Charles Back, for example, has enraged French authorities by making a successful Côtes-du-Rhône?style range that he calls Goats Do Roam. And Nick Dymoke-Marr, who created a new brand called Stormhoek, added a date-code indicator on the back of bottles that highlights when they should be consumed. The reasoning: "With most food products, the concept of sell-by date is well established." He's now trying to spread Stormhoek's reputation through wine-loving bloggers in the U.K. to whom he's been sending...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s fire-code compliant...
...these disciplines.Much of the information technology revolution has also been driven by the same paradigm of open contribution. About 70 percent of all web sites are powered by the Apache web server, free software developed and supported by an open community of programmers. Anyone has access to its source code and can suggest modifications, and it is then up to the team of developers at the Apache Software Foundation to decide whether these changes merit inclusion in official software releases. Sometimes people try to submit “junk code” and vandalize Apache, but such submissions rarely pass...
...This new PASS card will have a radio antenna embedded into the plastic that transmits a code unique to the cardholder. The signal is picked up by the immigration agent's computer, and the traveler's photograph and biographical information in the DHS database pops up on the screen. The new IDs - available to U.S. citizens only - will speed up cross-border traffic while making it more secure, says Bob Mocny, the acting director of DHS's U.S. VISIT program, which designs ways to move frequent travelers through immigration lines more quickly. Mocny confirmed that DHS had chosen the radio...
...Holocaust denial. France’s passage of this bill would be an ironic parallel to the circumstances in Turkey, which tried Orhan Pamuk, this year’s Nobel laureate for literature, for speaking about the Armenian genocide—which violates Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. In defending free speech, even the expatriate Pamuk spoke against the French bill. A free market of ideas, not laws imposed by the state, should establish what is true...