I have an image on Flickr that’s titled “Coffee Sludge Pattern” – it’s a picture of the dried coffee sludge that remains in the drip pan of my Rancilio Silvia espresso machine.

Every now and then I check the stats for my Flickr account, and yesterday I noticed that somebody did actually search for “coffee sludge” and found my picture. That of course piqued my interest, and I needed to know what else somebody would find when searching for “coffee sludge”.

Here is one such link:

http://www.mailman.srv.ualberta.ca/pipermail/patho-l/1998-November/005656.html

Let me just say that forensic pathologists are gross…