Wes Phillips

Jeff Wong sends along this smokin' version of "Perdido" by the Duke Ellington band. About midway through, after some great solos by band stalwarts Jimmy Hamilton and Ray Nance, the camera pans back and we see Paul Gonsalves sound asleep on the bandstand, forcing Hamilton to cover Gonsalves' tenor sax solo.

Burckhard Heim's work might actually help mankind jump into hyperspace.

One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.

Okay, indigenous Columbians want to make Cola with real Coca? Why is everybody freaking out about this? It's not the same thing as cocaine. I used to live in Peru and we would drink herb tea made from coca leaves all the time. It's got about as much kick as caffeine—maybe even less, since I'd have no qualms about drinking a cup before bedtime.

Fernet Branca. "If you can imagine getting punched squarely in the nose while sucking on a mentholated cough drop, you'll have an idea. . ."

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I'd try this myself, but I expect that Huckleberry's revenge would be severe.