The Stevedores is a pop-up (craft) beer and whiskey bar at The Oval in Bethnal Green. The menu — dubbed in an appropriately nautical parlance “the cargo manifest” — changes weekly. Items from this week’s fare that swell my sail include Buxton Rough Cs, a US hopped oatmeal amber lager, and the Chuck Buns with 12-hour braised beef chuck and cumin red cabbage slaw.

Some of us (okay, just one of us) are going to see the Berlin Philharmonic play Mahler this weekend — twice!

And something to look forward to next week is the opening of Superbolt Theatre’s Jurassic Park, which has generated some enthusiastic chatter on the Slack channels.

Or... stay home and play a board game!

Some of the Many playing Bang!

I really love my fat body is a great read from Naomi Alderman about the complex relationship of sports, fitness, weight-loss and fat — and how that led to the creation of Zombies, Run!.

How one tweet blew up Justine Sacco’s life.

Lessons from Google’s first roll-out of Google Fiber.

Too busy to look for love? Automate it! Tinderbox is a pretty impressive project that automates the use of Tinder using Eigenfaces to analyse and learn your preferences. It even initiates conversations with matches to gauge actual interest from the matchee. Creepy much? Just wait until someone uses the opensourced project to create a trollbot...

How many ways are there to think about a news homepage? This fascinating group-effort sketched out a whopping 64. While many of the ideas are quite small and whimsical, they often reflect interesting needs underlying how and why we consume news. I quite like #44 (“give me something interesting I can share at a dinner party”), pictured below, and #48 (“none of your friends have read this story”).

And yes, “Tinder for news” is one of the ideas (#34).

Elkebana, the first wall trophy for vegans.

Carryology’s 3rd annual Carry Awards finalists have been announced. I was particularly carried away (okay, that one’s too much) by Modern Industry’s Passenger — unfortunately I don’t appear to be the only one who thought so, as it’s sold out!

As elsewhere around the Web, Flipboard’s unexpectedly controversial techniques for achieving 60fps performance has sparked debate among our developers. We particularly liked Peter Gasston’s thoughts on idealism vs pragmatism (and not only because he cites @higgis’s FEL talk on tradeoffs).