You may have a few wine corks leftover from this weekend’s festivities. If you’re in need of a project (aren’t we all?), you might want to consider a “corkxedo.”

These wine corks are drilled, reinforced, and strung together: The Corkxedo was created by Los Angeles wine lover Dave Hamilton who spent around ten months putting together a top hat, cane and jacket with tails that are all made of whole corks drilled, reinforced and woven and knotted with nylon twine. The set contains the corks of more than 240 wineries and the oldest cork is a 1935 Chateau Lynch-Bages.

Anyone want to make a corkcycle? I’ll wear the ritz underneath a corkxedo and pick up my date on a bicycle built for two. I’m up for it.

In February of this year we posted a snippet about the world’s largest bottle of wine. It seems fitting, then, that we follow large wine with some lactose-fueled finery: the world’s largest cheese wheel. Made by Beemster, this baby is the big cheese.

Kid with really large head rides horse that actually gets somewhere. Ah the “good ole days” of mechanical steeds.

In case you aren’t familiar with Crushpad, it is a company that leverages their knowledge, experience, and technology to help you make your dream come true of being a world-class winemaker.

Traveling 53.43 miles (85.97 km) in one hour from a standing start in a specially designed recumbent bicycle, “Fast Freddie” Markham just set a new world record and won an $18,000 prize. At 49 years old, Fast Freddie was a surprise winner, which must have something to do with the bike. And yes, the course was flat.

Serious Eats Roundup: Wine

I’m a carnivore who doesn’t drink very much wine so it never really occurred to me that wine could be vegetarian or vegan, but it turns out that the majority of wines are fined (clarified, softened or stabilized) with clay, milk or egg products like casein or albumen, which are vegetarian but not vegan; some wines are fined with gelatin or products made from fish and shellfish and are not vegetarian at all. The Observer‘s Tim Atkins picks out twelve solid vegetarian wines so you can stick to your diet without compromising your taste buds, and if you can’t find them at your local shops the Vegan Wine Guide lists where to best order wines online in the US and UK.

This is fucked up: a bicyclist stops at a yellow light, and a driver, who wanted to go through the light, attacks the cyclist so hard that the cyclist loses a tooth! What’s more, a school field trip — one where the students were exploring surveillance cameras in public and private spaces — catches it on video.

When we’re on our tandem, I’m always being yelled at for running red lights, or some other such traffic violation. My theory: if you need to save your ass, and running a light (or, in this case, getting out of a “toughy’s” way) is part of preserving your existence, do it. Please don’t misunderstand — in no way am I condoning the action of this mentally unstable driver. Watch this video, spread it around. Most of all, if you are driving a motorized vehicle and there are bicycles on the road, give them a break. Most of them are riding to save you some gas. Instead of punching the bicyclists, you should be buying them a beer. (I know, I know, this is a wine site).

A beautiful video, and a few more reasons to get a fixed-gear bicycle.