Then one day They Might Be Giants opened a show with a Flying Robot Penguin Thing

Coffee Bag v0.1

They laughed at me when I suggested it! Laughed! LAUGHED! AHH HA HA HA HA!! AHH HA HA HA HA!! (This may have had something to do with being in clown college at the time), but now, now I'll show them, I'll show them all!

Fuelled by nothing but my genius, and the desire for a convenient way to create a single serving of good coffee. I Christopher Dykes have created:

The Coffee Bag!

you see, it's like a tea bag, but instead of tea, it contains...

COFFEE!!

mwwahahahaha! mwwahahahaha! YES!! I'm terribly sorry, I'm getting a bit carried away here, it's the Mad Scientist in me, that thunderstorm we had last week brought about an evil genius relapse, where was I? Oh yes! the coffee bag.

Testing began at 11:18 01/04/2010, and initial results did not indicate any coffee like fluid being generated:

After approximately 40 seconds, a spoon was used to agitate the water and increase the interaction between the coffee and the water:

This, most probably combined with the increased thermal potential of the water, led to the degeneration of the sealant on the bag:

By 11:20 the loss of bag integrity, resulted in the combination of coffee grinds and water in an unregulated environment, producing a beverage unsuitable for human consumption:

Results:  Inconclusive.

Conclusions:

1. A larger amount of coffee is required in the bag, to produce the correct effect,
2. A better sealant, which is not as affected by increased thermal activity will need to be discovered.
3. Maybe they were right to laugh at me?

Take this, you never know when it might come in handy

There are some things that every time traveller should know: how to find the toilets on the TARDIS, how to say "please don't eat me" in Morlock, were to buy a Mr-Fusion (tm). All of those things are important for the aspiring chrononaut, but lets examine another possibility, supposing you find yourself back in time, why the sheer level of knowledge that you as a modern man from a technologically advanced society possess could make you a God! or at the vary least a massive fortune.

The only problem is: how does some of that technology work? In particular, what are the basic building blocks of that tech? I mean it's all well and good to show Queen Elizabeth I the "light bulb" you just invented, but how exactly were you planning on powering it? Yeah, suddenly that Godhood and massive fortune are slowly sliding towards poverty and poor hygiene.

Well fear not gentle reader, this handy guide, found on google after about 30 seconds of work shall leap to your rescue, providing you with all of the information you'll need to bring about a technological wonderland in ages past. Containing such useful information as:

• A pendulum that swings for one second has an arc of approximately 1 meter
• Aluminium was once more valuable than gold
• Milk is pasteurised by heating it to 99.999% of it's boiling point
• Insulin can be extracted from the pancreas of dogs and pigs
• You are remembering to take credit for these discoveries aren't you?

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