As we are all here for coffee, each and every morning, we figured we should link to something coffee-related today. So, keeping with a breakfast theme, we present The Oatmeal’s 15 things worth knowing about coffee.
(The Flaming Lips in NY, by Ryan Muir via Dethjunkie)
That banana you’re eating? The one that took a boat halfway across the world to get to your supermarket (and, eventually, your stomache) only has a carbon footprint of 80g of CO2e. By contrast, a pint of the beer brewed locally has a 300g CO2e footprint. Unfortunately, “buying locally” is not a good way to minimize your carbon footprint — the truth is far more complicated.
Oh, and coffee? Anywhere from 21 to 340g of CO2e, depending on how you make it. Despite the fact that it’s not local, either.
Finally, we give you an extremely creepy (but not as Not Safe For Work as you might expect) look inside a factory in which sex dolls are made.
This morning’s breaking(!) news is that Google is creating their own Operating System. This is incredible news. For all that the European Commission has tried to nail Microsoft to the wall over Internet Explorer, the real monopoly is — and always has been — Windows. The only options available to users have been Windows, Mac OS (Apples only) or Linux (frightens away non-technical people).
By providing an alternative that (presumably) needs no more technical knowledge than Windows or Macs, but runs on PCs, Google may be introducing competition to the world of Operating Systems.
Meet the world’s strongest vagina. Here at the Big Bad Blog, we were previously unaware that they had a vagina weightlifting world record. We are happy that there are still things that take us by surprise, and wonder if there are vagina weightlifting competitions.
Gabe (who is a complete stranger to the Big Bad Blog) has a blog of his own: He is blogging the details of his very strange eviction. It features very strange episodes and landlord/tenant confrontations, and is recommended reading.
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