Spent the weekend in Brooklyn and had the pleasure of checking out a few great local places. Pete's Candy Store over near the McCarren pool had $3 pints for Happy Hour and Bierkraft in Park Slope had some amazing kegs for growler-filling as well as hard/impossible to find beers from all over the US. Gorilla Coffee gave me a doubleshot of espresso that was tasty, pungent and unique while the espresso from Espresso 77 was extremely smooth and delicious.

I've also been poking around the web a little bit more than usual this week just breaking in my new desk, and the froth has bubbled up nicely with some interesting tidbits.

On August 12th the Perseids meteor shower should peak, and provided the sky is cloud-free, it should be quite a show. The Tunguska Event was also an incredible show, but if you were close enough to see it, you wouldn't have lived through it. Here is a computer simulation of what probably happened out in the Russian wilderness back in 1908. The cool thing about that event is that no one is quite sure exactly what went down. This simulation is just the latest best guess.

I also learned this week about where we get most of our oil from. It's not where you think. Not by a long shot. And it's aboot time we invaded, obviously.

I've been reading Wired for many years now and I just found out that Found will not be found in the magazine anymore. I loved that little one-page feature and in honor of its demise, Metafilter has stepped up and provided a list of all the Found Features in Wired's history. Check it out, these are fun.