Octopodial Chrome

Has anyone tried this root beer recipe? I like that it includes sassafras root, which is the secret ingredient to all root beers. Let me know—I’d like to give it a shot, but would also like to have a good feeling before I invest in some birch bark…

I just watched this great video about a retailer/wholesaler of unique sodas. He carries rose soda, cucumber soda, brewed cola, weird Caribbean sodas, sassafras root beer and more. Really fascinating guy too.

It’d almost be worth the trip to Los Angeles to see his shop, but fortunately he sells onlines.

Lou Dolinar writes eloquently about the real Gulf of Mexico disaster: the complete betrayal of trust by public institutions such as the media and academia, which resorted to hyped scaremongering rather than sober judgement. What’s particularly sad is that the vast majority of it was most likely sincere.

Cracked.com has a so-true-it-hurts comic illustrating the lifespan of a TV show. It is, as noted, so true that it hurts. Hear that Highlander? Battlestar Galactica? Scrubs?