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.

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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.

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1. Food For Thought: Where’s The Beef
2. Burger King Goes Black Tie
3. Haute cuisine rapide
4. Quite a Burger
5. Kobe Burger King
6. Burger King to Serve Kobe Beef
7. Burger King Reveals Kobe Beef Burger
8. Burger King Launches World’s Most Expensive Hamburger

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.

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1. “Hillary Clinton is smart and forceful, John McCain is proud but has a volatile temper, and Barack Obama is a diplomat who deals well with different people and situations.”
2. Ha Ha Commenter: “John McCain’s handwriting changes depending on which personality is in control of his body.”
3. What’s In a Signature

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.

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1. Good For Bikers…Or Drunks!
2. Works Via Tiny Accelerometers
3. Ten Years of Hard Work Goes Into a 10-Second YouTube Clip
4. Impact Jacket Gets Road Tested by an Idiot