It would appear that expiration dates are only for show. Maybe. The article appears to be concerned only with expiration dates in the United States … and not for all products. So ignore them at your own peril.
Another kind of dating gives us some interesting math: An inch of height is worth $30,000 a year in salary … for men in the dating pool (and the women who would date them).
We are the last to post the following video to the Internet. I have seen it tweeted multiple times, and on every website I visit on a regular basis. It is still sufficiently awesome to include in the morning coffee:
Far and away the best headline of the day: Call for debate on killer robots. I hope they hold said debate, and invite the governor of California as a subject matter expert.
There are still those out there who insist that Obama was born in Kenya, and his presidency is illegal. They are now clinging to a purported Kenyan birth certificate that has surfaced. The birth certificate, as it turns out, appears to be a really, really bad forgery.
A woman in California allegedly bought Cap’n Crunch’s Crunchberries for years, under the delusion that they were a healthy cereal that contained real fruit. On discovering that “Crunchberries” are not an actual fruit, she sued. The verdict is now in, and is a victory for everybody who thinks that we ought to be able to assume that people are smart enough to identify Crunchberries as balls of coloured sugar.
Is a traditional bayonet not good enough? Add a chainsaw. Want a crossbow on your machine gun? Go ahead. Cracked takes us through some over-the-top modifications of deadly weapons.
We close this week of morning coffees with some XKCD:
RT @BackpackingDad: Based on the amount of time I spend using it now, the high school class with the most important knowledge was keyboa ... 4 hours ago
@AudreyAmazin305 peanut butter sandwiches? Even to those allergic? Sounds slightly cruel. 4 hours ago
