Twitter is testing out a new feature which will make Retweeting a little simpler. This will not affect most people, but for tweets that have a long line of retweets it will show the trail sort of. You will be able to see the people you follow who retweeted listed, and a number of others. So lets say suzy, john, charly, and bob retweeted something but you are only following bob it would say “Bob and 3 others have Retweeted this” I do like this new simpler retweeting option mostly because it keeps track of how many people were retweeting, and it leaves you some space in that 140 characters for a response. Hope you guys get invited to the BETA or that they update it across the board soon.

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This song has a lot of truth to it. Plus it sounds fantastic!

Pete Yorn has some great songs, but this is one of my personal favorites

This is the first of several songs which I will be popping up here. Music for those people who like music

Yesterday while I was in St Augustine they found a 15 foot diamondback rattlesnake at the outlet mall. Finding a 15 foot rattlesnake is more than a frightening experience for somebody to blog about, it is a scientific discovery. Of the three rattlesnake varieties the eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest. The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is less commonly know as crotalus adamanteus and is a venomous pitviper species found in the southeastern United States. It is the heaviest venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake. The average size of an eastern diamondback is 5.6 feet, and up until yesterday it was generally accepted that longest they could grow was approximately 8 feet long. Black mambas maxing out at 14 feet long were thought to be the longest venomous snake in existence. This 15 foot beast of a snake suggests  otherwise.

The venom from an eastern diamondback has a mortality rate of around 30 percent, but that does not take into account the amount of venom. There is no way of telling without collecting a sample how much venom this snake could have delivered, and what sort of damage it could do. The fangs on this snake are larger than the fangs I have seen on any other. The most likely reason for this rattler to be at the outlet mall was that it was searching for larger prey. Average diamondbacks are known to prey on birds, rodents, and even rabbits. They strike their prey and follow the scent of the dying animal waiting until they have stopped struggling to eat. This particular diamondback looks large enough to eat cats and maybe even a dog or two.

Naturally people came to look and take pictures of the behemoth of a snake. The sheriff department and animal control took the situation very seriously, and took every safety precaution possible. As for what is going to happen to the snake now I am not sure. I do know that it will be studied for a time, but that it will most likely not be able to be kept in captivity. Rattlesnake that grew up in the wild do not lend themselves well to captivity. Still due to the nature of the beast and it being unique in its size it may end up in the Jacksonville or some other zoo.

Hey guys this is the widget Jake just created, we will continue adding music to it. All of this music came from Amie Street and most of it, if not all, is free music. To date I have not bought any music and have just stuck to the free stuff.

Here is some of the music up on the widget as of today. There will be more you can count on that.

Band                                           Song

Bang Bang Eche                        Time Management

Chris Irvine                                  Frozen Rivers Really Need To Know

El Perro Del Mar                           Scandinavian Gold

Jack Savoretti                                Harder Than Easy

Middle Distance Runner             The Sun

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Orange wine is an old wine making technique where the skins are left on for longer

Orange wine is wine made from white wine grape varieties that have spent some maceration time in contact with the grape skins. In your standard white wine production you crush the grapes quickly moving the juice off the skins into the fermentation vessel. The skins contain color pigment, phenols and tannins that are often considered undesirable for white wines while for red wines, skin contact and maceration is a vital part of the wine making process that gives red wines its color, flavor and texture. Orange wines get their name from the darker, slightly orange tinge that the white wines receive due to their contact with the coloring pigments of the grape skins.

This wine making style is essentially the opposite of Rosé production which involves getting red wine grapes quickly off their skins, leaving the wine with a slightly pinkish tinge. However in the case of Pinot Gris, among the more popular grapes to apply a skin-contact treatment that is neither red nor white, the diffuse nature of the term becomes illustrated, as both an orange wine and a Rosé might achieve a similar expression of pink/orange/salmon-colored wine.
The practice has a long history in wine making dating back thousands of years to the European wine producing country of Georgia. In recent years the practice has been adopted by Italian winemakers, chiefly in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine region, while there is also production in Slovenia, Croatia, France, and California.

Orange wines were not uncommon in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s, but gradually became obscure as technically correct and fresh white wines came to dominate the market.

There has been a recent rise in popularity with Orange wines and there are a couple of things which could be contributing to this, but the biggest factor in its recent success is the buzz about it. People believe Orange Wine is new news and even people heavy into the wine culture have not heard about orange wines. Everybody from your lowly blogger like me to your social media guru like Guy Kawasaki is talking, tweeting, and looking for orange wine. Sometimes things simply come back into popularity.

If you are looking to be “avant garde” with your wine then go pick up some of this “new” orange wine. You can pick some up on the find for about ten bucks.

Is this really the original Ronald McDonald? I can not believe that this creepy guy wearing a cup on his nose helped sell hamburgers from his crotch. Does anybody know if this is real?

Obama wins a Nobel Peace prize for thinking showing us that it is really the thought that counts.