Beatle Juice

Artist Marc Valega designed the boxes for this imaginary collection of Beatle Beverages. Not included in the fictitious flavours are Peach Best and Starfruit Sutcliffe.

Fred Hardcore

So who knew that the reverend Fred Phelps and porn star Max Hardcore were the same person?

Chaz Shandling

Is it just me or does Chaz Bono kind of look like Garry Shandling?

you would think that if a woman were going to have a sex change, she would choose to look like someone who is a little more attractive than garry shandling. not that garry shandling is necessarily an ugly man mind you, but i mean, come on! what, were they having a sale that day on the garry shandling look or something? man, splurge a bit and at least go for the david brenner or even the gilbert gottfried maybe, but don't walk in the store and go directly to the bargain basement.

Charles Darwin's Library Digitized

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitized the books of Charles Darwin's personal library. It is utterly fascinating to read some of the annotations that Darwin himself has scrawled in the margins of many of his books.

Here is one such example from page 276 of  The American beaver and his works by Lewis H. Morgan, where Mr. Darwin has written:

American beaver stay away from me. American beaver mama let me be. Don't come a-dammin' around my door. I don't wanna see your furry face no more.

With atypical Victorian gentlemanliness, he pens his irritation of the Yankee Castor while showing his wonderful sense of humour and lyrical ability.

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