Scott Hebert

Everyday, I send interesting links to people via e-mail, instant message, or Twitter. There’s no reason to confine these links just to people I know.

Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2009-12-21 through 2010-01-12:

• YouTube – OK Go – Here It Goes Again
  The song is really good, but the video makes it.
• Using Search To Prove Social Media’s Value
  Some really good tips on determining how useful social media is in driving traffic to your website, and then explaining it in dollars and cents.
• Holidays: To Go or Not to Go on Vacation?
• Third Base Brewery Is No More
  Oops!
• Epic Win FTW » Admiral Ackbar Approved
  Holy frap, this is funny.
• “Nerd” and “Geek” Should Be Banned, Professor Says
  Hm…

Tags: coffee, holidays, humor, music, seo, slaptijack, starwars, vacation, video, ~scott

Everyday, I send interesting links to people via e-mail, instant message, or Twitter. There’s no reason to confine these links just to people I know.

Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2009-04-19 through 2009-12-19:

• DNA2Diamonds.com
  This is unexpected. They take the ashes of your loved ones and turn them into diamonds.
• What English sounds like to those who don't speak it: – Barking up the wrong tree
• Marketing Bullets | Gary's Arsenal
• Padraig’s 400-metre par three – watch the video!
• Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama
• Crap Gadgets

Tags: business, golf, humor, marketing, music, sports, video, ~scott

Although originally started in Illinois, there are more Dairy Queen’s in Texas than in any other state. In fact, DQ has a special menu for Texas stores featuring items like the Hunger-buster and the Belt-buster.

When stepping into a DQ, there are only two things you need to be aware of:

1. The Dude
   DQ has a bunch of other stuff on the menu, but all you really need to know about is The Dude (that’s the #6 combo at my DQ). The Dude is a chicken-fried steak sandwich.
2. Blizzards
   Most folks already know that Blizzards are a soft serve treat. A good DQ employee will flip that Blizzard over to show you how thick and delicious it really is.

   What a lot of folks forget is that there are 3 seasonal Blizzard flavors that must absolutely not be missed:

   • Thin Mint
   • Pumpkin Pie
   • Peppermint Chip

   When these flavors are on the menu, you must pull over and grab one. Other than that, just about any flavor is acceptable (though Heath Bar is the best).

Tags: dessert, food

A bunch of food related stuff cropped up recently:

1. This is chili weather. My wife taught me that it’s good with sour cream.
2. They could stick those heat tiles to the bottom of the Space Shuttle with wet Fruity Pebbles.
3. As I rediscover every year, Southern Comfort brand eggnog is the best. It comes in traditional and vanilla spice. I tried Hood cinnamon eggnog. Also good.
4. My wife and kids had never had Jiffy Pop until last week!
5. Ranch Style Beans are highly underrated.

Tags: cooking, food

I just rolled out a new release of AleTale, the social network for beer lovers. This new release included the following:

• Several bug fixes. Some weren’t really noticeable; others resulted in internal server errors.
• A few SEO related changes were made including changes to title tags, and new META tags.
• Cleaned up several listings, especially related to search.
• Other little things that probably bothered us more than you.

If you haven’t already, please join our community and start sharing your passion for brew. If you have any ideas how we can make the site better, use the Contact link at the bottom of any page.

Tags: aletale, beer, django, programming, python