For all of our readers in the United States, Friday is the 4th of July Independence Day. For most, this means a day off of work 
and an opportunity to relax, get some sun, picnic, bbq, grill up some Brats (NOTE: do NOT poke a hole in them while you’re grilling), and drinking beer, Red Zinfandel and Champagne while we get ready for the evenings fireworks. When the fireworks finally arrive, we’ll most likely be with family and friends contributing to the choir of fireworks with our ooh’s and ahhh’s.
If you are in the mood for traveling, or nearby, you should probably set your sites on one of these cities, as they we’re recently ranked The Top 10 Places to Celebrate July 4th:
1. Boston
2. Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard
3. Chicago
4. Mount Rushmore
5. Philadelphia
6. Queen Mary 2
7. San Diego
8. San Juan Islands
9. US Virgin Islands
10. Washington, DC
Enjoy a safe 4th of July and Happy Birthday America!
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Sour-grapes for Hillary Clinton, whose rotting cynicism is no match for Obama’s sparkle. There’s no doubt that if politicians were wine - Hillary is vinegar and Obama is champagne.
How dare Senator Clinton come out against Senator Obama, after his over rated comments about small-town America being bitter, with a series of photo-opportunities, going through the motions with a camera crew in tow - and in one audacious clip, pausing to have a sip of beer and drink a shot!
Oh sure Hillary, you drink beer so that makes you working-class.
The idea that a certain product can dictate one’s class is especially infuriating to a real wine-drinker, who recognizes wine’s essentially humble and agricultural roots - much the same as beer. That Clinton thinks that she can relate to the working class man with a photo-op drinking beer demonstrates that she is in fact far more derisory of the working class than she would dare let on. Although Obama may be on record saying that people cling to guns and religion because of economic uncertainty (which may not be entirely untrue), for Clinton to respond by taking a sip of beer and drinking a shot means that she thinks the best way to get the attention of the working class is to show an affinity for the bottle (which is slanderous.) Unwittingly, and thus tellingly, she implies that middle-class America are a bunch of drunks.
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Technology by
Jake on April 16, 2008
Just a quick note to all of our readers… I received an email a few minutes ago that Dotster will be giving away 500 domain names tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific to the first ones to click a banner on their site. Being the domain name tech-junkie I am, this of course excites me as I have several I’ve been thinking about. I figured passing this information along would be good for karma’s sake (e.g. In hopes I’m not the 501st person to click on the banner). Below is the content from the newsletter:
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Happy Hour Returns This Week!
Mark your calendars for the start of Happy Hour this Thursday April 17 at 1 pm PDT / 4 pm EDT. We will be giving away 500 new COM, NET, and ORG domain names on a first-come, first-served basis (1 domain name per customer). During Happy Hour, visit Dotster and click on the Happy Hour banner to receive a coupon code good for one new domain registration. Coupons will be redeemable immediately and will remain valid through April 22, 2008 midnight PDT.
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To stay in the spirit of Happy Hour, I will be tasting several Tempranillo blends for a client who will soon be releasing a new wine brand. Free wine is AWESOME! Once they get the juice right, we’re going to send out some free samples, so if your interested, contact us
EDIT: We’ve started receiving quite a bit of traffic on this post… To those of you coming from reddit.com, welcome, and Thank You for visiting. I just realized we do not have a link up, so I went and created a CJ Affiliate account for one -> Dotster.com.
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Food,
Lifestyle,
Wine by
Jake on January 1, 2008
After a lengthy evening of sipping (and sometimes chugging) champagne, and fun filled conversation, it is now officially 2008. Someone pointed out last night that it will be extremely easy to turn the accidental 2007 into a 2008, which further brightened my excitement for the coming year and a common problem of mine.
Someone else also pointed out the chip dip was AMAZING. I took some photos during the easy 5 step process of making it to share with you, as we did a little tweaking to the recipe.
Step 1 - Get it together
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Food,
Wine,
Wine Review by
Tayloe on December 31, 2007
When buying a bottle of Champagne, if the label says from “Champagne, France“,“methode traditionelleâ€, or “Méthode Champenoiseâ€, the wine is in fact truly a “Champagne“. All other wines are “Sparkling Wine”. While this does sound somewhat snobbish and aristocratic, it does serve a good purpose in protecting the brand of the area. Another example of this type of “rule” that you may be more familiar with is the Vidalia Onion, which you can easily cook with champagne, or sparkling wine, to create some great hors d’oeuvres for this New Year.
You have to check out these Champagne Onion recipes we found over at The Gilded Fork. I’m going to make them tomorrow, and have a good idea at the different flavors I can create by using different combinations of sparkling wine and onions.
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