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The Smoking Gun digs up “the Holy Grail” of tour riders: a 1982 Van Halen contract specifying “ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN” M&MS. I remember hearing about the Aerosmith green M&Ms rider when I was a kid and thinking it was the most scandalous thing ever. This one just seems a little picky.
Science Buzz Study by Argentinian scientists investigates effects of bovine produced methane on global warming. And it’s frickin’ dangerous!…With cows emitting between 8,000 and 1,000 liters of the gas a day, and methane absorbing 23 times more heat than carbon dioxide, we have finally identified the real source of global warming. Get on it Al Gore.
Food Buzz A Burger King location in London has launched a Kobe Beef burger that sells for $200. ‘The Burger’ as it is known, features Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun. All the proceeds from the burger go to a children’s charity, but I still can’t see spending $200 on a burger without cheese.
Politics Buzz Spiraling ever-inward, we now come to focus on the handwriting of the remaining presidential candidates and what it says about them. Parsing the campaign fonts wasn’t enough, so now graphologists are weighing in — with skills usually reserved for the likes of Paris Hilton or Britney Spears — on the looped Ls and squiggly Ts of our next President. Next up, phrenologists will read the bumps and fissures in their skulls.
Sports Buzz A new innovation in safety makes motorcycle riding slightly less foolhardy. Dianese and other motorcycle gear manufacturers are releasing designs that look almost like life jackets. Readers of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash will recognize the idea.
And you thought these reactions were bad. A million face palms is not…
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
