MetaFilter posts tagged with bottle

The cork is dead, long live the cork!

Brian B. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:56 -0800

Alternative wine closures are being resisted. Alcoa's new glass stopper with Dupont's vinyl ring costs nearly the same as a cork (50¢ to 70¢ each), but requires new bottling machines. Although cheaper screw caps also prevent undesirable compounds from tainting wine, and eliminates the need for horizontal storage, they change the purist aspect of the bottle and are not biodegradable. Naturalists point out the problem of having cork forests disappear in the Mediterranean region from low demand.

Fiji Water.

chunking express — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:48:09 -0800

Don't fuck around with Fiji Water. From the article:

I sat down and sent out a few emails—filling friends in on my visit to the Fiji Water bottling plant, forwarding a story about foreign journalists being kicked off the island. Then my connection died. "It will just be a few minutes," one of the clerks said. Moments later, a pair of police officers walked in. They headed for a woman at another terminal; I turned to my screen to compose a note about how cops were even showing up in the Internet cafés. Then I saw them coming toward me. "We're going to take you in for questioning about the emails you've been writing," they said. What followed, in a windowless room at the main police station, felt like a bad cop movie. "Who are you really?" the bespectacled inspector wearing a khaki uniform and a smug grin asked me over and over, as if my passport, press credentials, and stacks of notes about Fiji Water weren't sufficient clues to my identity. (My iPod, he surmised tensely, was "good for transmitting information.") I asked him to call my editors, even a UN official who could vouch for me. "Shut up!" he snapped. He rifled through my bags, read my notebooks and emails. "I'd hate to see a young lady like you go into a jail full of men," he averred, smiling grimly. "You know what happened to women during the 2000 coup, don't you?"

Teach, Bundanoon, teach!

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:47 -0800

Australian town bans bottled water.

Applications to ship-in-bottle concept?

grobstein — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:49:25 -0800

You thought Bonsai Kitty was a hoax. (SLYT; cute) Youtube has a bunch of videos of cats getting in bottles (YT search) and other glass containers (video link), but this is the best.

Ghost Bottle: No Maintenance Required

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:50:47 -0800

Ghost in a bottle, anyone? Might want to read this first (RLS PDF). Previously on MeFi.

The song and tap dance of bottled waters

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:54:13 -0800

An unscientific, blind taste-test of US$55/btl bottled vs tap water

Ship in a Bottle

figment of my conation — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:07:26 -0800

Got a few hundred hours to kill? (pdf) A Ship in a Bottle is a type of impossible bottle. No, not this Ship in a Bottle. Have you ever wondered how it gets in there? Or thought about building one yourself? Here's some tips and tricks. If you are not mechanically inclined, how about making a PSP version? Or, heck, just go buy one.

Message In A Bottle

daninnj — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:21:14 -0800

Oceangram is billed as an "online message in a bottle website." Send an anonymous message and it floats to another user in the world. They will add to it and it floats to another and so on. You'll get a bottle sent to you and you can add to it. [mi]

The future of Rx?

Dome-O-Rama — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:23:34 -0800

Target introduces first new Rx bottles in almost 50 years. But they might be the only one for some time to do so. I have a couple in my bathroom already and as a designer I have to say they are brilliant example of thoughtful, careful design that can be extremely usable. If you are a design geek, or a wannabe, this other article is a great read about that explains the design and thought processes, as well as some prototypes, they went through with the NYC School of Visual Arts to get this new design. On page two you can see the new bottle with a detailed features list. I personally like that it wont roll off a table, better readability, and the color coded rings for each family member. One more way design makes your life easier.

kidsplateusa — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:41:33 -0800

After getting the inside story (ha?) on the inventor of everyone's favorite non-orientable surface, the Klein Bottle; and perhaps playing a few games inside of one, you can check out a few 3-dimensional immersions of klein bottles: in Lego, knitted fabric, paper, or glass.