I went to a thing at SXSW this year.

Even if you’re not the sort of person who hangs out in bars and slams drink after drink while traveling the long and blinding road toward alcoholism. Even if you’re not the sort of regular citizen who sips a weekly cocktail or two so’s to savor the delightful taste and relaxing effects of it. Even if, for you, a tipple of any kind is a rare occurrence.

You want to know what it’s like to experience this new virtual reality creation that started off as a collaboration between Hewlett-Packard and NVIDIA and swaths of artists and scientists and is now a ready-for-primetime presentation that’s 14 minutes long and at least as hi-res as the screen you’re reading this on.

Danish environmental artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen “believes he and other ecologically-minded artists can one day bring long-lost species like the small Kaua'i 'ō'ō back from the dead, using a combination of technology, digital archiving tools, and a whole lot of artistic imagination,” reported Engadget back in May of last year.

Let’s begin with the truth that, if these pies weren’t so remarkably good, we wouldn’t be writing this post at all.

If you like the taste of ice cream – really good, handcrafted ice cream – and you also like booze, then the idea of mixing the two won’t seem odd at all

A guy named Aaron Goldfarb writes about whiskey. He writes a whole bunch about whiskey, and it’s writing that, if you like whiskey at all, you should be aware of. It’s writing, in fact, that you should read. And if you love whiskey, then you should definitely read Goldfarb’s new book: Hacking Whiskey.

You get an eyeful of that tall and gangly Quinn Buckner with his glasses and his short tanglemop of ruddy hair and especially his pale skin, and, because Buckner is obviously a white guy, you might think, because those fuckers are everywhere, “Well, here’s another white guy.”

This is like one of those trainwrecks that you can’t look away from, OK, except it’s the written presence of a young woman whose intimate, drug-riddled, cum-stained, fragmented-text story is as deftly captured as it is harrowing.