My buddy Tom Caestecker is a Chicago-based wine reviewer – check out his latest column on Chilean reds here.  I just like hearing things described as “total fruit bombs”.  And what other wine review references the ‘sixth’ Rolling Stone?  Little Red Rooster, indeed.

From a blurb in The Economist.  I don’t eat McDonald’s, but even if I did, I can’t imagine working for that long to afford one.

From Wired How To. Freeze the Menthos into ice cubes and serve in Diet Cokes. Wait for melt, and BOOM. Nice.

Fantastic infographic detailing consumer purchasing trends worldwide.  Disparity Incorporated.

We’re not sure how this happened, but my wonderful mother-in-law was featured in a story about the soul of New Orleans – here she is at Galatoire’s with ‘her’ waiter Richard and her friend Charlotte Mathes.

Every year many of the world’s top leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to make the world a better place.

This year, you get to join them.

First, submit a video answering The Davos Question:

“What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?”

Then, starting January 1st, watch and rank others’ ideas. The highest-rated videos will be screened in Davos (January 23-27), where world leaders will watch your videos and make responses of their own. Your idea could be the start of something big.

Visit The Davos Question website.

I’ve been drinking obscene quantities of this stuff lately. Delicious – and a methamphetamine-like buzz to boot. A 64oz. jug of heaven will cost you, though – $8.79 at my neighborhood Canseco’s. Figure on getting at least 15 hiwatt megaton-strength coffee drinks out of it, though, which beats the hell out of punk Frappacinos up and down the street. Highly recommended, seriously good iced coffee. If you manage to drink the entire 64oz., let me know how it goes. Been there.