Sippy Cups for Wine, More Wine, Less Mess

So, you are drinking wine with friends, when you start to feel a bit tipsy. You are losing your coordination and spilling wine everywhere. No, it’s not time to stop drinking. Just use these Vino2Go clear sippy cups made for wine and you can keep right on going.
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Now you can drink wine on the go. Just like your toddler does. Or, would, were they allowed to drink wine. Here’s some great news for you adult-babies: You can choose from 5 different colored tops: Merlot Red, Verde Green, Clear Ice, Party Pink & Business Black!

The Vino2Go wine tumbler sells for $15.99(USD) holds 10 oz of wine, which is the standard wine glass size. So drink up wine lovers. There’s no reason not to get your drunk on now.

[via Geekologie]


Netflix finally comes to Linux! (Sort of…)

Netflix finally comes to Linux! Sort of

Netflix’s reluctance to support playback on Linux computers is infamous notorious ridiculous well documented. Well, while the company isn’t ready to officially start streaming to your Ubuntu box, you can gain access to its vast library with a specially patched version of Wine. For those of you that don’t know, Wine is a compatibility layer that allows Windows apps to run under Linux. Fire up the Windows version of Firefox with this version of the software, install Microsoft’s Silverlight and voilà — Netflix on Linux. Unfortunately, that makes the whole ordeal sound a lot simpler than it is. For the moment you’ll need to download Wine from its Git repository, then download and apply five different patches. Then you’ll have to download and install Firefox 14.0.1 and Silverlight 4, neither of which are the current (read: easy to find) versions. So far the hack is only confirmed to work on the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 12.10, but we imagine getting it up and running on other distros shouldn’t be too difficult. The work around should get easier once the crafty devs get a PPA up and running that will streamline installation. If you’re the impatient type you can hit up the source link to get complete instructions.

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Amazon Wine Ships Hooch to Your Doorstep

Amazon has announced a new service further proving that you can buy just about anything from the massive online retailer. The new services called Amazon Wine, and as you can imagine, the service will ship wine to certain states. However, Amazon isn’t stockpiling a huge inventory of wine and then shipping bottles out directly. Rather the wine is purchased through Amazon, and then shipped directly from the vineyard.

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Wine services are available in California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C. Presumably, the limited availability has to do with laws in various states governing the shipment of alcohol from outside of the state. Amazon says that more states will be participating in the program soon.

Naturally, to purchase the wine requires that the buyer be at least 21-years-old. If somehow a kid should happen to figure out how to get around that purchase requirement, the packages won’t be delivered unless someone at least 21 or older is home to sign. Amazon is charging $9.99 to ship up to six bottles of wine and Prime Shipping rates are not available for the wine service.

[via CNET]


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