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found the per­fect drink for tweet-ups and all kinds of social media gath­er­ings: Foursquare spiced rum is way older than geo-location. The golden-brownish spirit is dis­tilled in Barbados:

And this Foursquare is a lot older than the first GPS chip:

Foursquare is the name of the old­est sugar plan­ta­tion (1636) in Bar­ba­dos. It is home to the most advanced Rum Dis­tillery in the world. Foursquare spiced rum is a com­bi­na­tion of rare island spices and spe­cialty aged rum blended in accor­dance with a cen­turies old secret for­mula known only to gen­er­a­tions of the Seale family.

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“Bounty, the bad­dest PT in your county — almost as strong as a Cana­dian mounty — and I’ve seen one, they’re pretty tough, pretty tough — but can they hold 11 pool palls in their hand — like I know that Bounty can?” Yes, that’s a hilar­i­ous one:

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If you haven’t seen the 4th sea­son of “Dex­ter” yet, then don’t watch this video — not even the first few sec­onds, because they con­tain a seri­ous spoiler. In case you already know how the cat-and-mouse game between Dex and Trin­ity ends, you are going to like this sit­down with Michael C. Hall and John Lithgow:

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I wish you all a great party tonight — 2009 has been an amaz­ing year for me, and I’m absolutely sure that 2010 will be amaz­ing +1 for all of us. So have a great night, enjoy your­self and never for­get: the party is in your head! The right sur­round­ing does help a lot, but ulti­mately you’re the mas­ter of your own device Read the rest of this entry »

It seems we’re liv­ing in a time and era where reli­gious views, tra­di­tions and believes once again cause a lot of mis­un­der­stand­ings. While all big world reli­gions preach at their core that human life is the most pre­cious thingie ever, this gen­eral rule doesn’t always gov­ern reli­gious lead­ers’ deci­sions. Let’s just hope it does for a change. Have great hol­i­days, enjoy family-time and don’t for­get to overeat; it’s X-Mas after all.

Yes, we all know how Kin­dle & Co. are going to steal bud­gets from paper presses, yet while books are still a com­mon cul­tural good, I want to rec­om­mend three read­ings which recently filled my days with joy and the price­less gift of offline infor­ma­tion. It’s not that price­less, though: Ama­zon quickly has to get rid of tons of books before every­one switches to eInk As the avid reader might notice, Thomas Pynchon’s “Inher­ent Vice”, Tara Hunt’s “The Whuffie Fac­tor” and the infa­mous pic­ture book “This is why you’re fat” do have noth­ing in com­mon. Just say­ing. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s not bet­ter visual metaphor for the real estate crash — And if the build­ings were closer together, a domino effect would have occurred. This [photo] is not a Pho­to­shop fake. Really not. Mish knows what exactly hap­pened in China [via @muesli]: Read the rest of this entry »

Some of you may yet not have paid any atten­tion to the fact that I’m liv­ing, work­ing and teach­ing in beau­ti­ful Vienna, cap­i­tal of Aus­tria. No sur­prise, as I usu­ally don’t blog about .at-specific top­ics on this blog. But today I have to make an excep­tion as Aus­trian min­is­ter of sci­en­tific affairs Johannes Hahn recently announced — as a com­plete sur­prise to all involved par­ties by the way — that Aus­tria will quit the CERN project. Nat­u­rally, a mas­sive wave of protest has risen among Aus­trian sci­en­tists and a peti­tion has been put online. Read the rest of this entry »

When Wal­ter Ben­jamin wrote his famous essay on tech­ni­cal repro­duc­tion of art pieces, he couldn’t have antic­i­pated a trend that is cur­rently redefin­ing the rela­tion­ship between designer and con­sumer. Unique prod­ucts, designed specif­i­cally to the users wishes, are going to replace ready-made prod­ucts of every­day life. Sounds too the­o­ret­i­cal? Just think of T-shirts: online-retailers like Spread­shirt made sin­gle unique prints avail­able at a rea­son­able price and they became extremely pop­u­lar in no time. Fluid Forms is tak­ing the whole con­cept of unique design to a new level — this week, the com­pany launched their new design inter­face. Read the rest of this entry »

Vimeo really sends out a lot of e-mails, but once you start read­ing the daily rec­om­men­da­tions, you just can’t stop — there’s always at least one clip which really cap­tures my imag­i­na­tion. Like this music video: Erik West set the visual scene for Code­breaker feat. Kathy dia­monds track “Fire” (Jimmy Edgar Remix), and he did a fan­tas­tic job: it’s all plain footage and post pro­duc­tion: Read the rest of this entry »

“May the good luck / shine a light on you / may every song you sing / be ever with you!” Thanks a lot for con­stantly stop­ping by at my blog — I just started datadirt this year and I’m pretty amazed by all the feed­back I got so far. I promise that I’ll keep things fresh and keep you folks updated about the lat­est in web 2.0 and online mar­ket­ing. Thanks for your sup­port, have great hol­i­days! (And treat elks gently!)

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