Interesting Links for 07-06-2015

• What's the best word for genitalia?
  • (tags: genitals language polls )
• Not sure if being stuck at an airport with the casts of two Disney musicals would be the best or worst thing...
  • (tags: musicals Disney airport video )
• Inside the World's Biggest 'Magic: The Gathering' Tournament
  • (tags: games competition magic )
• YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master
  • (tags: video swords robots Japan )
• Why good people do bad things (and how to get them not to)
  • (tags: psychology behaviour )
• What do IQ tests actually tell you?
  • (tags: iq intelligence )
• Here's What Drug And Legal Experts Actually Think Of The Blanket Ban On Legal Highs
  • (tags: drugs brain UK law epicfail )
• This Woman Has Been Sitting on Manspreaders For the Last Month and She Has Never Felt More Free
  • (tags: men space women behaviour transport )
• The professor afraid of his students, and the one who isn't
  • (tags: freespeech academia )
• This Charity Gives Poor People A Year's Income, No Strings Attached (I donate to them)
  • (tags: GuaranteedIncome charity effectiveness )
• It turns out that "bra size" is not a very useful term
  • (tags: clothing breasts women size )
• Ferris Bueller took his Day Off 30 years ago today
  • (tags: FerrisBueller )
• Hollywood's inaccurate STEM stereotypes are bad for all of us
  • (tags: science stereotypes )
• Shakespeare's Big 4 (a summary)
  • (tags: shakespeare funny comic )
• What does it look like when Jesus walks on water?
  • (tags: water jesus )
• HTML is done
  • (tags: html web )
• An Interactive Mirror Built from 450 Rotating Penguins
  • (tags: mirrors penguins technology art )

How do non-wine drinkers buy wine?

I know nothing about wine. I don't drink wine. Frankly, it all* tastes like vinegar to me.

However, occasionally we need wine for something (usually to take to someone else's home, because turning up with wine is the Done Thing), and I am sent off to Sainsbury's to get some.

My current tactic is "Look for something for around £5-£7, knocked down from a more expensive price." on the grounds that it should be a bit better than the standard stuff going for that price. But equally, it could be that it's knocked down because nobody is willing to spend £9 on it, because it tastes awful.

Anyone care to recommend a _simple_ guide to how to spot something that's not going to make people retch, for a reasonable price? Or am I already using an optimal heuristic?

*Very occasionally I will find a red wine which doesn't have an overwhelming taste of bitter vinegar to it, and tastes a bit more like port, which I can drink. But even then it's not actually something I'd seek out.