Just don’t sleep

Buzz kill: How much caffeine does it take to kill you? Death by Caffeine offers up answers. First, choose your poison—from light-weight Red Bull, with 80 milligrams of caffeine per eight-ounce serving, to a Starbucks tall coffee with 375 mg. Then plug in your body weight. Truth be told, unless you’re very tiny, the site informs you that you’re more likely to succumb to hyponatremia (or water intoxication, which killed a radio contestant in California in January) than expire from chugging eight mocha lattes in rapid succession. But, hey, you can always try at www.edge-inc.net/caffeine/.

Macho art: If you can’t sleep courtesy of all the caffeine from your little science/fatality experiment, check out Positive Ape Index, the blog of the Coop, that hot-rod-loving artiste who made bodacious devil women an alt-rock staple in the late ’90s. It’s art with hair on its chest and an extra helping of vintage-station-wagon goodness at positiveapeindex.blogspot.com.

by Michael Citrome

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