Awesome things on the Internet:
How Yellow Tail crushed the Aussie wine industry. The Yanks used to love our fermented grape juice, but according to Slate, cheapo wine company Yellow Tail has ruined it for everyone by making Aussie vino synonymous with ” cheap and frivolous” for US drinkers. Pah! They don’t know cheap and frivolous Aussie wine until they’ve chugged a cask of Stanley Moselle or Coolabah Fruity Lexia.
Fuck yeah cilantro. Is tumblr the new… something? We don’t know. It’s more micro than a regular blog, but more macro than Twitter — a bit like an online scrapbook. People are doing good things with it, anyway. FUCK YEAH CILANTRO is our favourite tumblr right now, with the boast: “IF YOU DON’T LOVE CILANTRO WITH ALL YOUR HEART I WILL FIGHT YOU. NO JOKE.” As regular patrons of Vietnamese bakeries, we wholeheartedly endorse this position on cilantro (though we call it “coriander”, because we’re not ‘merikins).
Should Michelle-O dress in home-grown? Oh, those snooty elitist Obamas, with their big words and European couture! Does Michelle need to stimulate the delicately-lined pockets of struggling American fashion designers by parading their wares? Women’s Wear Daily reckons so.
Like the auto and financial industries, fashion is in crisis. Yet the person in the administration best positioned to support its major players — those whose collective vicissitudes play into the economy in a considerable way and whose individual swings of fortune impact the lives of countless working people up and down the supply chain and their families — is giving them the cold shoulder. And we don’t mean Donna Karan’s. No one’s asking for a big-gun bailout, Mrs. O (at least not yet). But how about a shout-out?
Stop living in the past, authors! Sick of novelists only writing about days of olde? The Independent is. Not least of all because they inevitably lead to BBC costume dramas.
The truth behind obnoxious assholes. Yay, graphs:
