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FLASHBACK to December 23 1932:

Women pluck chickens by ‘Kingdon’ machine ready for canning at Ightham Kent

John Bannatyne Kingdon’s plucking machine was patented in 1928.

TO Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where a Starbucks barista has used caramel sauce to draw a pentagram and 666 in a customer’s coffee.

It turns out that this is not on the menu. It wasn’t even asked for. Starbucks tells The Daily Adviser:

(Sunday) was the first we heard of it when she posted on our Facebook page,” Starbucks social media team spokesman Tom Kuhn told The Daily Advertiser. “We reached out to her through social media and apologized. We’re taking the complaint seriously. We’re not sure who served her or what kind of beverage it was. It looks kind of caramel-ish in the photos.

How times change. Old Mr Anorak, our patron, only buys Nescafe in huge drums and still thinks ‘coffee breaks’ are a euphemism for a quick office shag.

Now coffee comes coated in not a skin of UHT milk but a snowdrift of whipped cream and caramel sauce. It is quite fitting that a drink modelled on the devil’s jism should carry his mark. After all, it’s all about branding.

Case dismissed.

Spotter: Gawker

It’s a big weekend for Katherine Webb and AJ McCarron. The couple got engaged! Katherine posted pics  to her twitter account to announce the news.

Katherine tweeted:

WE’RE ENGAGEDDD!!!

RELATED: Another celebrity engagement: Elizabeth Olsen and Boyd Holbrook.

She also shared a close-up pick of her gorgeous new rock.

He designed it himself.

It looks like AJ went all out: he had quite a cake there for after he popped the question. The cake suits the two of them perfectly, doesn’t it? Congratulations to the couple!

Photos by WENN & Courtesy of Katherine Webb

Remember seeing the pictures of Keira Knightley and Adam Levine filming something called ‘Can A Song Change Your Life?’ We thought it was a music video! Well, that project has been renamed ‘Begin Again,’ and here’s the first trailer for it. This movie, which also stars Mark Ruffalo, looks really, really good.

RELATED: Keira Knightley and Adam Levine have another busy day of filming.

Mark plays a down-on-his luck record executive who’s just been fired. Keira plays a woman who dated a big rock star (played by Adam) until he dumps her. Then she performs a song of her own, Mark hears it, and they team up to make an album. Cee-Lo Green looks like he has some hilarious scenes in this movie. Check out the trailer. Does this look any good to you?

Another Hollywood couple is calling it quits. Former ‘Twilight’ star Nikki Reed and ‘American Idol’ alum Paul McDonald announced their split last night. It sounds like distance was the problem.

Nikki’s rep released a statement to People.

After much consideration, Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald are ending their marriage. They have been living separately for the past 6 months due to work obligations.

“They will continue to share their love of music, and are still working on their debut album, I’m Not Falling, releasing in 2014. They remain best friends and look forward to their continued journey together.”

Well, things can’t be TOO bad if they’re still able to collaborate on an album together, can they?

RELATED: Nikki Reed works up a sweat with Tracy Anderson.

Nikki and Paul married in October 2011. Maintaining a marriage in the entertainment industry isn’t easy. At least they are able to keep things amicable.

Photos by RR/Premiere/FAMEFLYNET

ADAM Weinstein says Climate change deniers should be “arrested”. He says so on Gawker:

We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people’s deaths.

Contributing to deaths seems to include creating pollution, as the picture by his story implies.

He adds:

Attempts to deceive the public on climate change, and to consequently block any public policy to tackle it, contribute to roughly 150,000 deaths a year already…

You all know that man. That man is an idiot. He is too stupid to do anything other than choke the earth’s atmosphere a little more with his Mr. Pibb burps and his F-150′s gassy exhaust. Few of us believers in climate change can do much more—or less—than he can…

There is a lot we can do societally, now, not just in terms of reducing our contributions to the global climate’s maladies but in terms of preparing for its effects: rising seas and temperatures. Changes in crops and food supplies. Increased population density and disease. There is a chance to make society safer and smarter.

A journalist who says free speech should be clamped down on, that people who challenge a popular view should be arrested, does not understand the hard won freedoms that allow him to write. Freedom of speech and of the press are indivisible liberties.

The next time a Gawker writer claims that they are radicals, rebels or freedom fighters, remind them that one of their own demanded that free thought be quashed by the State.

Weinstein adds:

…if you are actively trying to deny people the tools they need to inform themselves, to protect themselves against a scientifically proven threat to life and limb, you shouldn’t be part of the debate. You should be punished for your self-serving malice.

Got that? If you say the unsayable and go against the all-powerful scientists whose word must be unchallenged fact and law you should not be heard. That’s the direct opposite of what should happen. You should be part of the debate. And that debate should be open and free. The science should be challenged.

Weinstein’s illiberal call is fundamentally conservative, his another voice demanding we believe in man-made climate change or else.  His view is presented as radical but it anything but. He seeks to ratchet up fear of humanity. He wants thought limited, aspiration capped and desire to fulfil human potential stymied. He wants no liberty of intellectual endeavour. He wants errant scientists, journalists and publishers punished.

Orwell observed “that in England the immediate enemies of truthfulness, and hence of freedom of thought, are the press lords, the film magnates, and the bureaucrats, but that on a long view the weakening of the desire for liberty among the intellectuals themselves is the most serious symptom of all”.

What do we know about the illiberal Weinstein?

Well, when he got married, the NY Times covered the event:

Last month, Mr. Weinstein, 30, received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia. Later this month, he is to become a copy editor at The Wall Street Journal. He graduated from Columbia. He is the son of Anne C. Weinstein and Alan Weinstein of Lauderhill, Fla. His father is the president and owner of a yacht brokerage and service company in Oakland Park, Fla., bearing his name.

You may have read about Alan in Power & Motor yacht magazine.

Do engines create pollution? Is dad the man? Is dad an “idiot”? Are his gassy exhausts chocking the planet and causing seas to rise? Did they pay for Adam to go to college? Dad’s site tells us:

With the purchase of Cantieri Riva by Vickers PLC (Rolls Royce), Alan Weinstein Assoc., Inc. became the US importer of Riva spare parts & accessories and served as the US service department for Cantieri Riva Inc, a division of Rolls Royce Motorcars.

This is one of the boats on hiss dad’s website:

This is the kind of thing that powered Alan during a trip to Italy:

Someone should educate dad, quick.