<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, beer]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, beer]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/beer http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/beer <![CDATA[The Twitter Frat House]]> Twitter's been repeatedly brought down this month by attacks from global hackers, attacks that sysadmins at rival Google managed to deflect. What better time to tinker with the elaborate process of home beer brewing?

Sure, it can be time consuming, but then so can washing away the day's hack-attack sorrows at the local pub. This little office brew, discovered at Twitter HQ by Mashable's Ben Parr, offers at least a visual gulp, and the promise of beer to come, without anyone needing to leave the building — just the thing to cap a battle with Russian cyber armies. Of course, combined with the free falafels Parr snapped, and with previously-reported ideas for a games room, lockers and wine cellar at the Twitter offices, the beer does tend to lend Twitter something of a frat-house aura. It is the grunt-iest of the blogging platforms!

(UPDATE: We originally said Parr was Pete Cashmore. Sorry Ben!)

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<![CDATA[Facebook's other, simpler, new money plan: allow beer ads]]> OK, Facebook is bringing Beacon back in the next 6 to 12 months, with plans to charge advertisers when Facebook users buy their products. We're sure social-graph enthusiasts are enthused. But for those trying to make money with Facebook widgets now, there's better news today. With the launch of a new "Demographic Restrictions capability" that can tell under-21 users from over-21 users, Facebook has decided to allow itself and widgetmakers to sell ads to the alcoholic-beverage industry. You know, the one known to spend as much as $915 million a year on beer ads, and which might be keen to reach Facebook's college-and-after demographic

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