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Coffee Shop menu. Image ID: 3971464 Coffee… just thinking about it is lighting up caffeine receptors in my brain. Coffee is a brewed beverage made from the roasted seeds (referred to as beans) of the coffee plant, most commonly coffea arabica. Coffee plants are native to Ethiopia and the Sudan; the practice of drinking coffee…
One Comic-Con I got really drunk at a party that JJ Abrams was attending. It was after the release of Star Trek: The Rebootening, which I liked despite a lot of problems and before they started working on Star Trek Into Darkness, and I wanted to tell him something. As a lifelong fan of the show I…
As we’ve discussed on several occasions, Frank Miller’s insane All-Star Batman and Robin comic is one of the worst interpretations of Batman ever, but it is also massively entertaining anyways. And now, it turns out Miller might return to finish the epic where Batman so memorably called Robin “retarded.” Here’s the deal: Miller has returned…
A café that specializes in novelty breakfast cereals has been targeted in protests against the gentrification of London’s East End. Paint was thrown at the windows of Brick Lane’s Cereal Killer Café, and “SCUM” was written across the window. A nearby real estate agent was also attacked. Customers were locked inside to protect them from the demonstrators. Several…
(bigstockphoto) Over 100 years ago in America — before Social Security, before IRAs, corporate pensions and 401(k)s — there was a ludicrously popular (and somewhat sleazy) retirement scheme called the tontine. At their peak, around the turn of the century, tontines represented nearly two-thirds of the American insurance market, holding about 7.5 percent of national…
Getty Advertisement – Continue Reading Below You may have sensed a certain gullibility in the air last night, a potent strain with pungent notes of paranoia and confusion. (And just a touch of embarrassment in the finish.) That’s because it’s fake Facebook legal status season again. Has it really been a year? This time…
Amazon has made its first serious foray into the so-called “gig economy”, advertising for part-time delivery drivers in Seattle as part of a programme called “Amazon Flex”. The drivers, who will be delivering packages ordered through its same-hour delivery product Amazon Prime Now, will be paid between $18-$25 an hour to work for the company,…
If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher. Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a…
A 33- year- old woman Olawunmi Oyebode has been arrested and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri for assault. This happened one week to her wedding in Lagos State , western Nigeria . Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ Her journey to prison started after she was arraigned before a Magistrates ’ Court sitting in Isolo…
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in 2012′s Men in Black 3 (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures-Sony, Wilson Webb) The men in black are returning to theaters — but their star secret agent has stepped down. A Hollywood Reporter interview with Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, who produced Men in Black and its two sequels, has confirmed that…