Sam Calagione makes great beer. Now he makes great TV. Watch “Brew Masters” on Discovery Channel and get a very cool and very informative behind the scenes look at the making of Dogfish Head ales and more importantly, watch Sam take amazing vacations that he can write off as business expenses. I’ve been down to the Dogfish plant a couple times for their annual Dogfish Dash and everyone who works there is super nice and proud and fun. I could not be happier for a local business.

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Mad Props: The venerable Mad magazine gives us: The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency [via laughingsquid] It’s Electric! Our pals at Geekadelphia are throwing a shindig honoring America’s greatest geek Ben Franklin. Yup, that long-haired, fat bastard invented a ton of stuff (or so they say) and he’s arisen from the dead and [...]