{"id":7543,"date":"2008-10-31T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sybeeritic.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/usb-fortified-wine-very-punny.html"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:03:00","slug":"sybeeritic-usb-fortified-wine-very-punny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=7543","title":{"rendered":"Sybeeritic: &#8220;USB&#8221; Fortified Wine, Very Punny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tA slight but <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5070643\/usb-port-wine-gets-you-drunk-at-480mbs\">amusing detour from beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5070643\/usb-port-wine-gets-you-drunk-at-480mbs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/2008\/10\/custom_1225313676321_usb_frontlabelphoto_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>By law, American producers of fortified wine cannot call their product &#8220;port&#8221; because it&#8217;s not actually made in Portugal. Instead, they chose to call their wine &#8220;USB,&#8221; with a stylized label showing the symbol for that particular (computer) port. And for extra geeky goodness:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> The label maker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.6westdesign.com\/\">6 West Design<\/a>, also reveals that the USB-tree on the front is composed of binary code that translates to &#8220;Peltier Station.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?sub=postcosm&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsybeeritic.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fusb-fortified-wine-very-punny.html\" title=\"other blogs commenting on this post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/images\/bubble.gif\" alt=\"Technorati talk bubble\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\tA slight but amusing detour from beer:By law, American producers of fortified wine cannot call their product &#8220;port&#8221; because it&#8217;s not actually made in Portugal. Instead, they chose to call their wine &#8220;USB,&#8221; with a stylized label showing the symbol for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}