Two reasons to go to Arnold's Thursday, March 20th

I don't know if this was done on purpose or not, but this month's Green Drinks Cincy coincides with the Inaugural Tapping of Christian Moerlein's new Barbarossa Double Dark Lager.



The tapping will be of a new year-round beer, "a Munich style beer with a lower alcohol content than the company's recent seasonal beers. The name is a tribute to the first beer marketed by the German immigrant founder of the original Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. in the 1850s." I hope to get a signed copy of the poster to go with my signed copy of the Emancipator poster.

Green Drinks Cincy speaker this month is Heather Mayfield from the ORSANCO Education Foundation.

• The tapping on zipscene.com, on upcoming.org.


• Green Drinks Cincy - March on upcoming.org

Cincinnati metro bus route to get free Wi-Fi

Via MuniWireless:

The Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority will launch a three-month pilot program providing free Wi-Fi service to commuters aboard the Kings Island Express, one of the busiest suburban bus routes from Cincinnati’s northernmost suburbs to the city’s downtown. According to a news release issued today, neither taxpayer funds nor bus fares are being used to finance the program. Details will be released at a media event planned for Wednesday. Expect this program to be funded, at least in part, by advertisers and commercial sponsors, the finance mechanism that the city’s Project Lilypad has used to initiate free hot spot service in commercial areas around the city. --direct link to Business Courier article

It says this is a three-month pilot project, but it doesn't say whether that means they would roll it out to other routes if successful.

Route 71X schedule and map, other routes

If I were designing the network, I'd examine the possibility of using a mesh-network like the one Robin Chase talks about in this video from TED.

Mt. Adams

03082008197.jpg, originally uploaded by Pez King.