links for 2008-11-23

"Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The first time, they trampled four villagers; the second time they uprooted a pylon and electrocuted themselves.)" – great piece. sham they left out Harpoon, but an excellent read about the rise of microbrewing.

not nearly as cool as i thought it would be: extremely basic in its content and approach. it seems aimed solely at people who have no idea that statistics have been applied to baseball. too bad.