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With this handy website you can locate 150 wineries that are allowed to ship to the great state of Tennessee. Wine.Woot.com occasionally has wines that can be shipped to Tennessee as well and always has great deals, but Appellation America seems to be the only site that displays all the available options.

Tennessee is number 9 and number 2 on the list of the most dangerous cities in the United States. Congrats everyone!

I just finished reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez. The blurb on the jacket will make the book sound lame, but I promise it is a blast. Very quick paced and readable and also containing some damn scary/cool ideas.

On a related note, does fortsanders have an amazon referral code? I can add that to my amazon link to help the site if we do.

Comedian describes his worst gig ever...one of the funniest stories i've ever heard. from Zee on Vimeo.

So last night Phish played their first concert since the trainwreck that was Coventry. It was actually a tight show with a great setlist. The night opened with Fluffhead:

Fulfilling the wishes of this persistent gentleman:

It's fun to see this famous ad in the context of the IBM/Apple battle. It's also funny to consider the profitability Apple enjoys despite the erosion of their market share from then until now.

So the Girl Talk show I went to a few weeks ago was amazing. Weird costumes and wild dancing everywhere. But it was shut down twice. As you can see in the first video, Girl Talk invites large numbers of the audience on stage with him. The area I was in was packed when the show started and then suddenly I had tons of room. I looked up and it seemed like there were fifty people packed in on stage around him. They were packed so tight that people kept falling off the edge of the stage. So the security guards set themselves up like a human wall at the edge. Well some kid ran and jumped into the arms of the bouncer on stage, the bouncer fell over into the crowd, and while he was getting back into position about 5 or 6 people fell off the stage into the crowd. So this happened again and they shut the show down. (continued inside)

Friendfeed, which is run by the guys who created gmail and Google Maps and Ad Sense, just put out this cool real-time view of any room or users friends. Here is the feed from people I'm following in real time (used to be US politics, but it's too slow):

I've setup a Friendfeed ghost account to keep up with updates from fortsanders.net. It's really useful as a network and a feed reader.