Show Notes for June 19, 2014

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  • COSCO: "China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, known as COSCO or COSCO Group, is a Chinese shipping and logistics services supplier company. It is a government-owned company of the People's Republic of China. Its headquarters is in Ocean Plaza in the Xicheng District in Beijing. It owns more than 130 vessels (with a capacity of 600,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)) and calls on over a thousand ports worldwide. It ranks sixth largest in number of container ships and ninth largest in aggregate container volume in the world."
  • WSJ article about Skybox acquisition: "Amid Stratospheric Valuations, Google Unearths a Deal With Skybox - For a Mere $500 Million, Satellite Firm Promises to Boost Earnings and Rattle the World"
  • Robert M. Parker Jr. "(born July 23, 1947) is a leading U.S. wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. He is widely acknowledged to be the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world today."
  • Cheeses
    • Époisses de Bourgogne "is a cheese made in the village Époisses, which is in the département of Côte-d'Or in France. It is located around halfway between Dijon and Auxerre. Commonly referred to as Époisses, it is a pungent unpasteurised cows-milk cheese. Smear-ripened (washed in marc de Bourgogne, the local pomace brandy), it is circular at around either 10 cm (3.9 in) or 18 cm (7.1 in) in diameter, with a distinctive soft red-orange colour. It is sold in a circular wooden box, and in restaurants, is usually served on a spoon due to its extremely soft texture. The cheese is often paired with Trappist beer or even Sauternes rather than a red wine."
    • Roquefort "is a sheep milk blue cheese from the south of France, and together with Bleu d'Auvergne, Stilton and Gorgonzola is one of the world's best known blue cheeses."
    • FDA Clarification on Using Wood Shelving in Artisanal Cheesemaking: "we have not and are not prohibiting or banning the long-standing practice of using wood shelving in artisanal cheese. Nor does the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) require any such action. Reports to the contrary are not accurate."
    • LA Times: Wood-aged cheese: How science slices the debate over bacteria
  • Web Starter Kit - Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development
  • Hackers reverse-engineer NSA spy kit using off-the-shelf parts
  • FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library

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