The Show Notes

Solar panel manufacturers Sharp to end solar panel business in the US and Europe Suntech files for bankruptcy   Beer EBU  / IBU, a measurement for bitterness, "the technical limit for IBU's is around 100" The renaissance of beer in the US , from the Economist 21st Amendment , the San Francisco brewery Color coding  for electric wiring How companies learn your secrets , by Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit Forecast.io

It is not a good idea to leave your Tomcat port open; older versions of Tomcat or the VM can have known vulnerabilities Jawbone Up , and how can it reliably detect you're sleeping vs. just not moving? Zeo  did  shut down Salesforce using gamification in Work.com  and Chatter, which can have a perverse effect on employee's behavior Allagash Brewing Company  sold at Costco

Coat Screws with Soap to Help Them Turn Easily Porcher , "luxury toilets" Russell Peters on having "having 5 great shit in your life" Shake to undo on iOS, coming to OS X soon ? La Pizzeria in Campbell, the best pizza in the Bay Area? Making spam more obvious (i.e. mentioning Niger) is a way to filter out people who are more likely to respond but then realize it is scam before sending money Boy Scouts of America on position on homosexuality , a sort of don't ask don't tell  policy Movies Scout toujours...,  the 1985 French movie, a 5.3 on IMDB Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez , the 1964 French movie, a 7.0 on IMDB La soupe aux choux , the 1981 French movie with Louis de Funès, a 6.2 on IMDB Automatic , a hardware plug for your car that talks to its companion iPhone app The Onion: BREAKING: Pope Francis Resigns

Chromebook Pixel , excellent resolution, can be used with Chrome Remote Desktop to access and use another machine NoMachine NX , handles connections to X Window systems, but in a way that is usable over slow  connections; the protocol has been used by Google, who created Neatx , an open source NX server (these days, they most likely use Chrome Remote Desktop) crouton , a "Chromium OS-centric Ubuntu chroot generator" Toxic gas hypothesis , which could explain sudden infant death syndrome, but is at this point disputed Chai , contains tea, sweetener, milk, and spices Kara's Cupcakes in Palo Alto, some love it, some don't Johnnie Walker  Blue Label 1805, sold at Costco for $20,000 Brian C Quo , pediatric dentist in Palo Alto Wew-Do  balance board, recommended when using a standing desk, $100+ on Amazon Fiat Panda , still begin made today with the third edition  from 2011

Human tetrachromats , the story isn't as simple as saying that women with only one "color-blind" X chromosome can see one more color Oxalis albicans aka radishroot yellow-sorrel is the name of the yellow-flower herb you see everywhere here in CA RoliRoti  comes to the Peninsula on weekends, doing San Mateo Saturday 9 am - 1 pm and Palo Alto Sunday 9 am - 2 pm Loam , soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even concentration, about 40-40-20% concentration respectively