My buddy Patrick writes the Buzz List over at excite.com. He recently vowed, quite publicly, that if Ashton Kutcher's new movie "The Butterfly Effect" made more than 40 million dollars in its first 4 weeks, he would eat nothing but baked beans for a month.

Patrick lost. Beanfest 2004 starts March 1st. I'll be interviewing him at some point to see how it's going.

Read about his Baked Beans Challenge here.