I was struck by this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday, particularly the following photo caption:
At Shaving Grace in Exton, barber Michael Sgarra shaves Brendan Steiger. The shop has beer on tap and a pool table besides haircuts and shaves.
At my old barbershop they turned the place into a month-long Christmas party in December, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so I suppose beer on tap year-round can only be an improvement. On the other hand, if you’re going out for a beer you don’t necessarily want it interrupted by a haircut either, even a fancy one. That’s particularly true as I’ve …read more

This is a pretty interesting concept – a Georgia sports bar has fitted taps to the individual tables. The taps are fitted with counters which determine how much beer is poured, and they automatically shut off when the tap has poured a certain amount of beer (at least until the server turns it back on again).
I like to try a number of different beers during the evening, so this wouldn’t necessarily appeal to me, but it certainly is a different concept.

We Macintosh users are always trying to find new uses for our old Macs, so I was particularly intrigued by this one, sent by a friend of mine:

Now I have to figure out how to achieve the same result with my old Mac SE, long slated for conversion to an aquarium.
image from unknown, if you took it let me know and I’ll gladly give you attribution