by Shep McAllister on Deals, shared by Shep McAllister to Kotaku
If you have Overwatch and an Amazon Prime Membership, you can get a free in-game Golden Loot Box with a guaranteed legendary item today, plus 10 more standard loot boxes for free later on (five in August, five more in October).
A few weeks back, SprayAndPlay made a request that a single tree (pictured) be taken out of Tripwire’s Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, a multiplayer PC shooter released earlier this year. And now, the tree is gone.
Enlarge / Scientists tracked cat genetics partly by studying the evolution of the "blotched tabby," pictured here in excruciatingly cute detail. (credit: Anne)
People who live with cats like to joke about how these small fuzzy creatures are still wild, basically training us rather than the other way around. Now a new genetic study of ancient cat DNA reveals that we are basically right. Cats were not domesticated in the same way dogs, cows, pigs, and goats were. They have lived among us, but it wasn't until very recently that we began to change them.
Unlike dogs, whose bodies and temperaments have transformed radically during the roughly 30,000 years we've lived with them, domestic cats are almost identical to their wild counterparts—physically and genetically. House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility. Wildcats are neither social nor hierarchical, which also makes them hard to integrate into human communities.
Yet it's impossible to deny that cats are tame. We know that humans have lived with cats for at least 10,000 years—there's a 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus with a cat buried alongside its human, and ancient Egyptian art has a popular motif showing house cats eating fish under chairs. Today, cats still share our homes and food, and for thousands of years they have worked alongside farmers and sailors to eradicate vermin. If we haven't domesticated cats, what exactly have we done to them?
A new trailer has been released for Call of Cthulhu, Cyanide Studio’s upcoming RPG-investigation game based on Chaosium’s pen and paper RPG.
In it, private investigator Edward Pierce’s perception of reality becomes “more and more skewed” the closer he gets to the Sleeper of R’lyehClutch’s influence.
While trying to maintain his sanity, Pierce will need to unravel the conspiracies behind the murder of Sarah Hawkins, deal with cultists and otherworldly beings while exploring Darkwater Island and the creepy Hawkins mansion. But, Pierce is not alone.
Players will be able to recruit a small team of investigators, and leading them as Pierce, send them across the island to solve various cases.
Remember though: the choices made will impact the narrative and relationships with Pierce’s companions.
It appears that the company best known for blanketing the earth in a layer of cute vinyl toys and plushes has expanded into the prop replica game. The Rick and Morty portal gun is a fine place to start—and they went all out with it. The prop is full-size and emits lights and sounds. Plus, it is available to pre-order now for only $15. Check out more pics below.
Reading a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book can feel like being lost in a maze and running through twists and turns only to find dead ends, switchbacks, and disappointment. In the books—for those not familiar with them—you read until you come to a decision point, which prompts you to flip to another page, backward or forward. The early books in the series, which began in 1979, have dozens of endings, reached through branching storylines so complex that that trying to keep track of your path can seem hopeless—no matter how many fingers you stick into the book in order to find your way back to the key, fateful choice. You might end up back at an early fork again, surprised at how far you traveled only to reemerge at a simple decision, weighted with consequences that you couldn't have imagined at the beginning.
The last installment of the original "Choose Your Own Adventure" series came out in 1998, but since 2004, Chooseco, founded by one of the series’ original authors, R.A. Montgomery, has been republishing classic volumes, as well as new riffs on the form of interactive fiction that seemed ubiquitous in the 1980s and '90s. The new editions also carry an additional feature—maps of the hidden structure of each book.
On the official maps, however, the endings aren’t coded in any way that reveals their nature. Instead, they operate according to a simple key: each arrow represents a page, each circle a choice, and each square an ending. Dotted lines show where branches link to one another.
Mapping the bones of the books can have other purposes, too. Nick Montfort, a poet and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies interactive fiction, has a habit of asking people what they know about "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. “They often say, 'You have two choices after every page,'” he says. “That’s not true. Sometimes you have one choice. Sometimes you have more than two. When you show the maps, you can see that these books don’t look exactly the same.”
The older volumes, for instance, tend to have more endings than the later ones, and three of the oldest—Journey Under the Sea, Space and Beyond, and By Balloon to the Sahara—have 42 endings each, more than any other books in the series.
Here’s what Space and Beyond looks like mapped:
And here’s Journey Under the Sea:
In this book, you’re trying to locate Atlantis, and while each of the 42 endings is distinct, they can be grouped into categories.
There’s disappointment: You give up the search and someone else finds Atlantis, you don’t quite get there, your ship is destroyed, your eyesight is damaged. There’s hope: A mysterious submarine saves you, you give up the search but get a second chance, you glimpse Atlantis in the sky. There are sea dangers: You might ride a whale, get eaten by a fish, escape a shark, get eaten by shark, die by poisonous snake bite, escape a whirlpool and find your ship, escape a whirlpool but die in the ocean, get spit out of a whirlpool and find your ship, or explore a deep hole that you can’t escape from. There’s Atlantis itself, but you might destroy it before you get in. You might meet Atlanteans and, in a rare case, end up back on the surface. More often, you stay with Atlanteans, who appear in different guises in different endings. You might travel through space-time with them, be an advisor to their king, lead a revolution, end up in a dungeon, get gills implanted, live out your life in a Atlantean zoo, or become a blob of light, an Atlantean farmer, Atlantean musician, or Atlantean historian. Oh, and there’s also a secret deepwater laboratory.
This book is particularly tough on readers. One analysis found that more than 75 percent of the endings are unfavorable or deadly. One of the most poignant endings is the one where you choose to pull back from your search and someone else finds Atlantis. You regret giving up your search, but, the book says, “You didn’t really have a choice. Did you?” (Of course you did.)
By contrast, Surf Monkeys has the fewest endings of any book in the original series, with long stretches without decision-making. You’ve been spending the summer learning to surf, but now your friend Jorge is missing. Before you even have a choice to make (see that long string of arrows on the left), you’ve started your investigation, met a gang of surfers, and encountered a shark.
This book also has the longest path to an ending of any of the classics. By the end of a 61-page storyline, you've finally found Jorge, and though it’s not the only ending where you rescue your friend, it’s the only one where you also get to surf a killer wave.
Sometimes, your journey ends quickly, though. Island of Time has the shortest path from beginning to an end, at just six pages. Your parents leave you home alone for the first time with instructions to answer the phone if it rings and take a message. When the phone does ring, you’re presented with your first choice—be obedient and answer it, or rebel and ignore it. If you pick up, you have a quiet weekend at home. If you ignore it, you might travel back in time, meet a lake monster, get recruited to work on a ship, or end up trussed on a dock.
In just about every case, it can be surprising how a simple choice leads you down a complex path. In By Balloon to the Sahara, you’re in a balloon and are presented with a choice on the very first page. Storm clouds are on the horizon. Choice 1: “If you act now, you can release gas from the balloon and land before the storm overtakes you.” Choice 2: “Perhaps the storm will pass quickly. Maybe you can ride it out.” That's just the beginning, since this book has the most decision points—48—of the series.
Other installments, including Eighth Grade Witch, The Case of the Silk King, Zombie Penpal, Search for the Mountain Gorillas, and Tattoo of Death have decision points that are not simply binary. One page in Mountain Gorillas, for instance, has three different choices, each leading to a different ending:
Cup of Death goes one step further. You are an amateur detective and are offered a four-pronged choice early in the investigation. As the map shows, though, one of those is a false lead, which takes you to a three-pronged fork. There, each of three options loops directly back to one of the paths you avoided at the previous decision point.
There is yet another possibility in these nonlinear books: hidden endings. Inside UFO 54-40 has a hidden ending that’s only available to a reader who ignores the decisions and flips to it without prompting. But it’s there. “It’s a two-page, big illustration of this city,” says Montfort, the MIT professor. “The land of Ultima. As you flip through the book, even if you’re being very obedient, you can’t help but wonder what this text is.”
In Escape from the Haunted Warehouse, there’s a clearer path to the hidden ending—a page that hints "The End ... or is it?" Solving a simple puzzle in the text prompts the reader to turn to one more page—to a much happier outcome.
There are also structures that loop readers through the story in unique ways. Mystery of the Maya, for example, has time travel, and keeps sending the reader back to the same page and place in time. ("Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum," as Doc Brown would say. If you think that's what it is, click here. If you decide it's just an "amazing coincidence," click here.)
These are just some of the possibilities for what is today the wide-open field of interactive fiction. When Montfort teaches “multisequential stories” he includes David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, because, with all its long footnotes, it asks the reader to make choices about how it’s read. The simplest form of a story that asks a reader to make choices might be a book such as Composition Number 1 by Marc Saporta, which has the reader shuffle all the pages before reading. (The book has many possible configurations, but only one action required of the reader.)
In the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, Montfort points out, “The choices are normally about the action of a character. What action transpires at the story level?” By contrast, in Raymond Queneau’s Yours for the Telling, the choices presented to the reader are about how the story is told. The reader might choose to hear more about a particular details, or decide what color a character’s mittens are. “It’s like the story is being told to a child,” says Montfort. “Do you want to want to hear more or less?”
Maps like the ones Chooseco created can reveal the structure of a book that gives readers choices, but though the multiple story lines are part of what makes the series so fun, they're not the only thing that defines it. The meat of "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories are gender-neutral romps in worlds where there are no obviously right or wrong moral choices. There's danger around bend, usually in the form of something like space monkeys, malicious ghosts, or conniving grown-ups. Even with a map, there's no way to find out what really comes next without making a choice and flipping to another page.
The development of Cuphead has been prolonged, to put it mildly (we first saw it back in 2014), but it's finally here... almost. Studio MDHR and Microsoft have announced that the 1930s-style side-scroller will be available for Xbox One and Windows PC...
LOS ANGELES—Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, the world's biggest "battle royale"-themed shooting game on PCs, finally has a console release window pegged. Game creator Brendan Greene announced the news at Microsoft's E3 conference on Sunday, and, unsurprisingly, he pegged it as an Xbox One console exclusive.
"Playerunknown" himself takes the Xbox stage. (credit: Kyle Orland)
The game, which you've either never heard of or have watched non-stop on Twitch as of late (it's one of the streaming site's current top games), pits up to 99 players against each other in a giant-island battle to the death. Players can either try to survive the island solo, in a duo, or as a four-person squad. Like other recent "survival-shooter" games, PUBG drops players on a single, desolate world (in this case, a deserted island). Unlike others, a range of timers and shrinking zones forces players into a central circle over time, which makes its 15-20 minute battles always feel tense.
The game began life as a multiplayer mod for the hardcore PC military shooter Arma III. Its formal release as a standalone Steam game has jumpstarted its playerbase. Greene did not confirm whether any other features coming to the PC version, including new worlds to battle in, will reach the Xbox One versions. (The PC version is still considered "early access" within Steam.)
pretty cool. Hope they do figures of other characters.
Hot off the heels of her recent Nendoroid debut, Good Smile Company has revealed that Tracer from Overwatch will be receiving a figma as well. Not only that, but the figma is up for pre-order on their site as of this moment, along with Blizzard's own site.
1. Kinda cool. I do love Fallout. 2. Kinda cool I do like that they used the star wars alphabet (I don't remember what they call it) for the letters on the buttons. 3. Looks uncomfortable to hold. 4. HOLY SHIT I WANT A BOBA FETT CONTROLLER!!!
Devin Smith of End of Line Designs is an amazing artist that excels at creating custom gaming controllers that make regular controllers looks bleak and insignificant in comparison. Here is one of his latest creations: a PS4 controller themed after the fallout universe. Check out the rest of the pics below as well as a few extra ones from his portfolio.
I did not click through.. I only read these two paragraphs. But I also subscribed to Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, and PSM. PSM even came with discs that had demos and save files you could download to your memory card for games that gave you access to in game items, etc. I fucking loved reading those magazines every month. Nostalgia, yo.
Let's take a few minutes to talk about the most horrible thing that's happened to anyone ever. Like, ever-ever. A snail bit my uncle's wiener off, and even that wasn't as horrible as the worst thing that's ever happened to me. But before I further hyperbolize an event more or less meaningless in the grand scheme of life, let's take it back a little.
Do you remember E3 growing up? I do. I'm 30, and back in the days before the internet we had to go to the Barnes & Noble's with our step dads and camp in the magazine section while Terry read Guns, Germs, and Steel chapter-by-chapter because he was too cheap to buy the damned thing for $17.99 (like, seriously Terry, just skip the Molson's for one weekend and buy the book!). Anyway, while Terry was getting his step dad on, we nerdy, red-headed step children would plop down in front of EGM, GamePro, and, my personal favorite, PSM and ingest all of the wonderful gooeyness drip-fed to us once a month in print publications. Did it suck that you really only got news once every thirty days? Kinda. Did that one day out of thirty fucking rule? You know it.
The RV Investigator is trawling the depths of the ocean in Australia’s eastern abyss, surveying 14 spots over the course of a month. Recently, as National Geographic reports, the team pulled up from a depth of about 2,500 m, a Bathysaurx ferox, a.k.a. a deep-sea lizard fish.
Because they live so far down in the ocean, these fish are rarely seen by humans, and they are a sight to behold!
Their large eyes and sharp teeth are characteristic of ambush predators, the Investigator’s Asher Flatt explains. If humans rarely see them, they also have a hard time finding each other, so these fish have both male and female reproductive organs to maximize reproductive opportunities. They can grow to about two feet long. One more point for the oceans-are-terrifying team?
"...variously known as Wreck the Hoose Juice, Commotion Lotion, Bottle of Fight the World, Liquid Speed or Scranjuice"
lol
Some of Britain’s last Benedictine monks, based in Devon, brew a tonic wine that many say tastes of a mixture of cough medicine and fruit bubblegum. Somehow, it’s become the drink of choice for violent Scottish offenders some 450 miles away.
At £7 ($9) a bottle, Buckfast tonic wine isn’t the cheapest alcoholic drink you can buy in Scotland. And at 15 percent alcohol, it isn’t the strongest, either. For the vast majority of people, it would be a stretch to call it the tastiest. (Satisfied customers who’ve bought it on Amazon would beg to differ, saying it tastes like “tears of angels” or the “elixir of life.” One adds: “They say it has no medicinal properties. But I am pretty sure they are lying.”)
What it might be, though, is the most incendiary. Though Buckfast accounts for barely half a percent of Scotland’s total alcohol sales, in 2015 the Scottish Prison Service found that over 40 percent of inmates had drunk some quantity of the stuff before their last offense. Of these, many were violent. (Some enterprising inmates had drained the glass bottle dry and then found it a handy solution for a weapon.) “The Buckie made me do it” is apparently the classic defense.
Where Buckfast really packs a punch is in how much caffeine it has: a single 750ml bottle has 281 milligrams, or around as much as 10 cans of Coke. It might well be illegal in the U.S., where the Food and Drug Administration has banned drinks that combine alcohol and caffeine. In 2014, late lamented American party drink Four Loko was forced to change its recipe and strip out the stimulants that earned it its “blackout in a can” reputation.
You’re probably not supposed to drink a whole bottle of Buckfast, which would get you as drunk as eight double shots, but people certainly do. The consequences can be messy.
The recipe itself is top secret, allegedly known only to one of the Buckfast Abbey monks. Essentially, it’s a fortified wine flavored with vanillin and packed full of preservatives and caffeine. Most of all, it’s powerfully sweet—no spoonful of sugar required to make this medicine go down.
The monks say Buckfast has all kinds of fans, including “little old ladies” pouring out a medicinal dram after dinner. But they probably aren’t the Scottish drinkers going on Buckie-fueled rampages. Instead, the Scottish press points at “neds,” local hooligans from poorer housing developments in cities like Glasgow and Dundee. “Ned,” as a term, is sometimes controversial—politicians have said that it’s classist and degrading and encouraged people not to use it.
While it almost certainly doesn’t stand for “Non-Educated Delinquent” as popular folklore suggests, the connotations are clear. (In 2003, then-politician Duncan McNeil suggested alternative terms could be “the guys that hang about the streets” or “tracksuit ambassadors.”)
The monks, for their part, aren’t delighted about the link. In the past, they’ve chalked up the controversy to anti-religious sentiment and refused to comment when Buckfast has made lurid headlines. If it were banned in Scotland, they say, those committing crimes would simply change their drink of choice, and it just isn’t fair to blame problems of massive deprivation on some monks at the other end of the country. Since the 1990s, they’ve been asked to change the recipe by reducing either the alcohol or caffeine content: they continue to refuse.
Whether intentionally or not, Buckfast’s booming popularity in Scotland doesn’t exactly hurt them—last year, they made nearly £9 million ($11.6 million) from sales of the drink. And as they’re a religious order, they don’t pay taxes on those millions.
Buckfast Abbey, where the monks live and the drink is brewed, is hours and hours away from Glasgow. No one’s exactly sure how the wine became so popular with the local louts of the cities at the opposite end of the country. The monks have suggested that it might have something to do with the traditionally Catholic fans of Scottish football club Celtic FC developing a taste for their holy drink as a pre-match aperitif in the 1970s.
But there’s evidence to suggest that Scots have had a taste for Buckfast, variously known as Wreck the Hoose Juice, Commotion Lotion, Bottle of Fight the World, Liquid Speed or Scranjuice, for much longer than that. In adverts for wine shops in 1930s Scottish newspapers, it’s the only drink they bother to mention by name.
It’s possible that Scots developed a taste for Buckfast because of its supposedly medicinal properties. In 1921, changes in licensing laws meant that alcohol could only be bought between 11:30am to 3pm and 5:30pm to 10pm on weekdays—and not at all on Sundays. But Buckfast, which was sold at pharmacies as medicine as well as in wine shops, could be bought any time. As late as the 1960s, it was marketed as “a splendid pick-me-up that restores zest and sparkle,” available at all good chemists.
Whatever the explanation, Buckfast seems firmly established in the Scottish culinary canon, along with stand-outs like super-sweet fudge lookalike “tablet,” deep-fried Mars bars, and the Munchy Box. Butchers flavor meat with it, shops use it to sell Easter eggs, and the issues of violence and crime it’s associated with continue to mushroom.
Meanwhile, down south, London hipsters may be beginning to develop a taste for the drink. At taqueria and bar Bad Sports, in trendy Hoxton, bartender and Glaswegian Stu Bale mixes it with gin and Campari to make their signature Coatbridge Negroni. “Buckfast has nice tannins and it’s fruity, so it makes a valid substitute for red vermouth,” he told Vice. It might get you hammered, he says, but “if you know what you’re doing, you can make something taste really delicious.”
For too long, Americans have had to watch as Kinder Surprise eggs became one of the world’s favorite candies, unable to partake in any of the 3.5 billion sold annually because FDA regulations prohibit the inclusion of a toy inside the egg—but that’s about to change. Read more on That’s Nerdalicious…
I just used to put the Quake disc in my cd player and listen to the it. Track 1 was the game and tracks 2 - 9(?) were the music.
Nine Inch Nails is releasing the music Trent Reznor composed for the iconic Quake on vinyl over 20 years after the game’s release. As far as we know, this is the first time the industrial ambient music for Quake has been officially released as a soundtrack.
The NIN website lists the Quake LP as “coming soon”, but you can expect it to run for around $20 when it becomes available.
Overwatch has had an event or new content every month since its release, but for the first time this weekend, players can earn double experience just for playing as they would normally. The XP boost will be effective starting June 8 and will be available on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Earn DOUBLE XP this weekend on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One!
Happily, this XP boost is occurring just before the current event ends on June 12, so Overwatch fans will have some extra chances to unbox Anniversary skins and dance emotes. You'll still be able to earn 20% bonus experience for playing with friends in addition to the slight modifier for competitive games.
There was an additional small patch on PC today that will be rolled into a larger patch for the console versions. It fixes the bug where players will fall through moving platforms while using their dance emotes and cleans up a couple of exploits that allowed certain characters to reach places they shouldn't be able to.
Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze—fast. His goal: to create highly engineered spirits unlike any you've tasted before. The post One Man's Quest to Make 20-Year-Old Rum in Just Six Days appeared first on WIRED.
by Luke Plunkett on Cosplay, shared by Luke Plunkett to Kotaku
This replica of a Fallout 4 Tesla Rifle, by Wasted Props, doesn’t just look like the real (well, you know) thing. It spins and “charges” like it as well.
Omg.. the party chat doesn't go through the system, it is through an app on your phone. That is horrible design.
Hori
Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that Nintendo doesn't know what the heck it's doing with online multiplayer games.
Today's story comes from Hori, a longtime gaming peripheral maker best known for its "fighting stick" controllers. The company unveiled the world's first Nintendo Switch-compatible headset on Thursday morning, and it's a weird one. Wait, this headset needs a dongle to work? And a phone?
A full, standard keg of beer weighs just over 160 pounds and is pretty unwieldy. So it's no surprise that the folks at the Wacken Open Air music festival in Wacken, Germany, are sick of schlepping them across fields every year, and have decided to do something about it. Come August, they'll be able to pour 105,000 gallons of beer at stands around the festival grounds thanks to four miles of underground piping.
Music fans at the heavy metal festival are a thirsty bunch. According to Deutsche Welle, the 75,000 attendees each drink, on average, more than a gallon of beer over the course of the festival's three days. Keeping up with that demand has been a struggle in past years. The new pipeline will provide enough pressure to pour six beers in six seconds.
When metalheads aren't taking over the sprawling fields, they're home to crops, so the pipelines are buried deep enough that plows won't disturb them in the off-season. Conduits for fiberoptic cables, along with pipes for fresh and waste water, were installed too.
The festival organizers wrote that the pipelines are "a lasting investment in the infrastructure of Wacken." Fans of Wacken Open Air will be set for years to come.
This Little Guy Showed Up On My Brother’s Farm One Day. My Brother Took Him To The Vet, And His 10 Year Old Daughter Told Him All She Wanted Was This Guy For Her Christmas, She Wanted No Presents Any More But This Guy… Meet Popeye
There Has Been A Stray Cat Outside Of My House Since Summer. Today We Decided To Let Him Inside To Stay Warm And A Few Hours Later We Found Him Like This!
Eight days ago, a one-eyed goat was born in the Indian village of Assam. Since then, this brave little fluff has become an international sensation for obvious reasons: clearly, it’s training to be in the X-Men.
The practice of hacking standard Super Mario World cartridges on stock Super Nintendo hardware has come a long way in a short time. Three years ago, it required a robot entering thousands of button presses per second to insert arbitrary code on top of the game. By last year, streamer SethBling was proving that this kind of code insertion was possible for a human acting with pixel-perfect precision.
Now, SethBling and others in the SMW hacking community have taken things a step further, permanently writing a full hex editor and gameplay mods onto a stock Super Mario World cartridge using nothing but standard controller inputs.
SethBling's ten-minute video explaining the entire "jailbreaking" process is a must-watch for anyone interested in the particulars of perpetually altering a 25-year-old game without any special hardware. In short, the jailbreak builds on an exploit discovered by Cooper Harrsyn that lets players write data directly to the small, 256-byte save files that are permanently stored on the Super Mario World cartridge.
Almost 10 years ago, journalist David Kushner had a chance to interview Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the two creators of Dungeons & Dragons, before they died. Kushner's reporting became a story for Wired, and now he's expanded the scope of his tale into a graphic novel. Rise of the Dungeon Master (Amazon UK / Amazon US), beautifully illustrated by Koren Shadmi, is both a moving portrait of two creative outsiders and a chronicle of how a new kind of storytelling changed pop culture forever.
Kushner recounts the story of Gygax and Arneson in the second person, addressing the reader as if Kushner were the dungeon master. "You" are young Gygax, the child of immigrants growing up in the midwest, seeking escape from ordinary life by exploring the wilderness, hunting, and eventually learning to break into an old, abandoned asylum. The narrative technique sounds gimmicky, but it works: you're sucked into the story and into immediate sympathy with Gygax as he traces his fascination with adventure games back to his childhood, when he climbed around in the maze of tunnels below the creepy asylum's rotting rooms.
The development of Cuphead has been prolonged, to put it mildly (we first saw it back in 2014), but it's finally here... almost. Studio MDHR and Microsoft have announced that the 1930s-style side-scroller will be available for Xbox One and Windows PC...
For too long, Americans have had to watch as Kinder Surprise eggs became one of the world’s favorite candies, unable to partake in any of the 3.5 billion sold annually because FDA regulations prohibit the inclusion of a toy inside the egg—but that’s about to change. Read more on That’s Nerdalicious…
Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze—fast. His goal: to create highly engineered spirits unlike any you've tasted before. The post One Man's Quest to Make 20-Year-Old Rum in Just Six Days appeared first on WIRED.
