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Beatles documentary from the year 3126:
(more…)Peaches En Regalia
Zappa Plays Zappa performs Frank Zappa’s “Peaches en Regalia”:
(more…)340,000
(from the depressing milestone dept.)
Since January 16, 2006, over 340,00 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 10,000 spam comments since July 13, 2011, and over 74 times the number of legitimate comments posted to this web site since June, 2001.
This coffee tastes like…
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Kopi Luwak 100% Pure Wild & Organic Medium Roast Robusta Whole Civet Coffee Beans – (4 ounces/113 grams) – Roasted in the USA Imported From the Philippines |
Kopi luwak (Malay pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee, is one of the world’s most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee. It is made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Passing through a civet’s intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world.
Possibly the worst thing in the history of ever…
(via JC Corcoran)
Back in 1985, Kris Jenner (who was Kris Kardashian at the time), made a music video – thus showing where the Kardashian sisters got their lack of talent.
(more…)Philip K. Dick’s Bible
Philip K. Dick’s Bible is on eBay for $6,500
Impulse buy alert! Someone is selling Philip K. Dick’s annotated personal Bible on eBay. Here’s the description from the seller:In 1974, science fiction legend Philip K. Dick experienced a tremendous religious vision and revelation. Renowned cartoonist R. Crumb even illustrated this formative episode in Dick’s life […] Others have written about Dick’s religious transformation, but none, to my knowledge, has consulted this volume: Dick’s inscribed copy of THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT (Oxford University Press, 1963). On the front flyleaf, Dick has made handwritten notations regarding the resurrection, gnosticism, and the casting out of devils.
If you don’t happen to have $6,500 lying around to witness all manner of inscrutable revelation, don’t worry. William Gibson has announced on Twitter that he’s willing to lowball the seller: “I’ll write some really crazy shit in your Bible for *five* grand. Paypal.”
[Via Metafilter]
I’m willing to lowball Gibson and write some really crazy shit in your Bible for $4500.
Punditry
20 Years
The World Wide Web turns 20 – how it’s changed the world forever
On 6 August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble scientist at CERN, made the first page on the World Wide Web publicly available in a move that, unbeknown to him at the time, would change the world more quickly and profoundly than anything before or since.
First ever web page – and it’s been mostly lolcats and porn ever since…
James A. Bohannon Science Center
Having spent a good chunk of 1981-1987 in this building:
I wonder if Carling Black Label beer is still available….
Ramadan: Unclear on the Concept
