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It’s a bit warm outside these days in Honolulu. If you have a few warm cans or bottles of your favorite beverage, chilling them down in 3 minutes is easy with a bit of physics, a lot of ice, a big pot and at least one cup of table salt.

Thank you DumbLittleMan.com and MythBusters for the idea, and riussi for the Creative Commons licensed picture.

Here’s a brief article from BusinessWeek about Bionade, a soft drink that is organic, brewed, tasty and very popular in Germany.

I want some. Perhaps I’d like the ginger-orange flavor best.

Tech: Iron City Beer now comes in aluminum bottles made by Alcoa. Freaky.

Tech: New Scientist: “Brighter, clearer beer could be on the way thanks to a superfine filter that owes its existence to the failure of a decade-old recording technology. In the early 1990s, Philips of the Netherlands developed the Digital Compact Cassette tape format, which was designed to give CD-quality sound on standard magnetic tapes.”

Movies: MSNBC - The Art of Idiocy: “‘I just love white male American jackasses,’ Will Ferrell says. Which is so sweet, because they love him right back. A recent Harvard study concluded that every 15 seconds a frat boy pops a beer and quotes one of Ferrell’s lines from ‘Old School.’ Not really. But it feels true, doesn’t it? In a flash-bang 17 months, the actor has rocketed from ‘Saturday Night Live’ MVP to Hollywood’s newest comic star. Last Christmas, ‘Elf,’ the first movie in which he had solo top billing, wrapped up $173 million domestically, outgrossing ‘The Matrix Revolutions’ by more than $30 million.”