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Next week we start to gear up for the Adopt a newb celebration. but tonight is all about a fun little look at some of the more egagning tech stories out there.

From Lego Synths to Google Apps this episode covers a lot of ground. We talk about failed and winning art projects good verse bad coffee and i rant a little bit about control of the factors of production

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Geek Cruft:

• Google Apps Marketplace, instant on site usability
• LEGO synthesizer. its says steampunk but i see plastic
• Get a charge out of malware
• App magnets actually look pretty spiffy
• Apple NDA out in the open
• Stranger Danger, corner collision warning system
• Happy Animal Golf balls? Why not just paint your own
• Laptop ban

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Mind the table settings
• Cappucino as Conflict
• instant coffee, timeless design
• Happy Hour Watch, concept fail in my opinion
• Ring thing is much better
• Prep it up right! CaffiNation’s Scotch Irish Coffee
• mypressi twist review
• Canon Lens Thermos to go on sale!

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Tags: cappucion, Coffee, Espresso, Lego, Steampunk, synth

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Where oh Where di the blog post go? Server has been down / database problems abounding for a day now, and i’m back in. Somehow this episode got deleted, but the fun thing about that is that it had been up for a day and a half before anything had happened to i am at a loos for words…

From Bleeding Glaciers to well placed products and people this show touches briefly on all the awesome bits of pop culture geek cruft and caffeinated goodness floating about the interwebs tonight!

Tonight’s show is a perfect example of why Sunday Shows simply can’t be live, but can still be awesome. I started researching the show with the idea of a bite sized version of the caffination to put up. A couple of stories here and there and early to bed. Well it wasn’t to be there was just too much awesome floating around on the interwebs to truncate the show too much.

This is shaping up to be a crazy week, with the kidlettes all gone for spring break I have a ton of stuff to get back on track. After this the crazy sprint to the end of the semester begins. Its funny how working at a university, this closely with the students, shifts your focus to the condensed timeline that students use. Either way its going to be an interesting ride.

Next week we start to gear up for the Adopt a newb celebration so I’m going to be talking about that a bit as well.

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Geek Cruft:

• EagleFanCast, new Look!
• Weather Geeks Sense a warm front of awesome coming in. Solar Style
• The future is here, but its ugly and expensive. Jetpacks Meh
• Meh is a real word
• Science behind the movies, Bomb proof suit
• Bleeding Glaciers
• Apple to crack down on Cookie Cutter Apps
• More Info on Microsoft Courier
• iPad won’t tether, direct from the Jobs’ Phone
• Simple Solution for Cold Bike Hands
• Lighted Gloves look like a bright idea, Yes… I went there
• Spiffy Hidden Antenna!
• Candybar style remote keyboard

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Play with your food. Bacon Rocket
• Coffee Powered Car
• Espresso vs Drip Caffeine Factor
• MAS has a great attitude towards the AntiCoffee
• MMMM Chill Pill

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: antenna, apple, bacon robot, Bike, bike hands, candybar, chill pill, Coffee, glaciers, gloves, ipad, Meh, Microsoft courier, repost

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Free Coffee, And a night full of energy

Tonight’s live show is yet another in a long line of fun shows we’re trying. If you see something that could be better or some feature you would like to have added please feel free to drop me a line. I love the interaction of the live taping and if you’ve never stopped by we’d love to have you.

This show is a bit of everything and i really felt like we did in fact seize the night. A great crew of people assembled to listen and comment in on the taping as well as host of wonderful tech and caffeinated goodies played a fun part as well.

Everywhere from medical journalism to coffee community’s responsibility was covered. Funny stories hard hitting news, and everything in between.

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Geek Cruft:

• Media needs to take responsibility for medical reporting
• 5 spiffy internet collectibles! Thanks Jen
• Apple Sues over multi-touch
• Kansas does stupid publicty, thanks Jay
• More geeky Pillows, tweetie
• Chatting Pillows
• Geeky Geolocation apps squaring off, what say you? Buzz is pretty cool
• Ever wonder why its so hard to get tickets online? blame these guys
• Compass table doesn’t steer you wrong
• So wrong it had to be right, the iMaxi
• Your pet fat, Expensive lesson
• Turn Your phone into a remote, IR is needed
• Know Your Meme, awesome resource
• Shady URL
• OKGO rocks video insanity Epic Rube Goldberg style

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Red Espresso, Rooibos ftw
• Cooking shouldn’t be hard. but using the dishwasher is a bit much
• knives and your coffee mugs can be friends
• Molecular cooking weirds me out
• Color changing Easter eggs
• Evil water bottle?
• Coffee and your heart rhythms
• Beheaded R2D2 cake!

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Tags: android, apple, giveaway, kansas, medical news, meme, Microsoft, okgo, pillows, responsibility, Robots, shady, Tickets

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Crazy Gadgets and fun announcements, Free Coffee Too!

Today is a fun day. February is always a weird month its over far too quick, you think some of the months with 31 days could spare a day here and there, make a little sense in the world, but no. Leap years aside tomorrow starts March already!

Plenty of bits of random interesting detris littered their way across my feed reader, lego dinosaurs. Mario, Batman, and The search for ET all show up in this episode so pay attention. Not to mention a wonderful coffee section, listen in for how to get free coffee!

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Geek Cruft:

• Latitude, and why i’m not your friend
• Totally Cool New Layout! Norbert’s Blog Update
• Skype in your TV? Neat Idea
• Batman foils Superman’s Collectible Supremacy
• Fauxiron Man
• Mushroom Kingdom in your ears
• 2fer! Robotic lego Dinosaurs / Crazy German Evolutionary Steampunk video
• Baba O Thinkgeek! Anything to sell gadgets
• Human Ball, I saw a water version of these
• Hyperdrive Album photo storage made huge and awesome
• Floppy Drive Pillows
• Tactile Concept device for the blind
• How to fake being hardcore, buy a smashable guitar
• Arecibo Scarf, confuse even well read geeks. Arecibo?

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• CaffiNation Reviews: Peet’s Uzuri African Blend
• Hows about some Free Coffee? You only have till Wednesday!
• I really like these coffee cup hooks
• Wine Temp means everything
• Do you need a knockbox?
• More Beautiful Coffee as Pigment Paintings

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Tags: Batman, dinosaur, free coffee, Google, latitude, Lego, peets coffee, robot, skype, Steampunk, totallycooltech, TV, Uzuri

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Updated Stories, fantastic reviews and a well caffeinated evening

To say that I’m surprised would be an understatement. I honestly left the live show for dead over a year ago thinking that no one would ever come to watch a taping of my podcast let alone develope into any sort of community. Now i have people looking specifically for this, I’m both humbled that people enjoy it so much and pretty enthused about where we could go. I’m not quite stoked yet, i don’t think i’ve ever been stoked.

Tonight’s Show we talk about giant LEGO robots, massive man made machines and ghostbusters on the wii. We touch on location based problems with Google buzz and tap into the latest in serious real world problems facing the tech of today. But nothing too serious wouldn’t want anyone to learn anything too quickly now would we?

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Geek Cruft:

• Youtube Decision Italian justice
• Finish your google profile yet? Here is mine
• G Profile is one thing WPI is where it’s at
• Update on Lovely school webcam incident, Hubris
• Edit images online via flash, html5 version anytime soon?
• The Blues and Jazz had a baby and named it rock and roll. then they adopted metal
• Dedicated Paint art project, thanks Mom
• George Lucas needed the money. Humidity is bad for computers… just saying
• Walmart buys Vudu
• Walmart protects the children
• Automatic dominos!
• Congrats James and Cathy! Jimmy you now need this
• Superman sells out for 1 million dollars
• Don’t cross the streams or some awesome could leak out. Wii Proton pack
• Massive Post Apocalyptic lego, its like a lego bagger 288
• 2k for a Star Destroyer  christening plate? Storm Trooper Plank Owner?

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• CaffiNation Reviews Village Tea Company Cherry Rooibos
• thats roy bos
• Build a better kettle?
• Rad cup, radiator cup
• Touch of summer, watermelon carving, thanks MAS
• Coffee Give away

So its going to snow again, philly averages 20 inches a year we have had 65, the last snow just finally started disappearing and tonight we try to add some more ice to the fire, what a crazy year this has been. Chances and forecasts are looking for 5 – 18 inches in my area depending on your impending doom cast…

A wonderful live show was interrupted by a kid-let waking in the middle of the show, and a house in disarray. Things got back on track but only after a hunt through the bowels of a spare parts box found the mystic universal power adapter. All hail the universal adapter. Its been a long night so please excuse the crazies, unless you enjoy them then enjoy away.

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Tags: bagger 288, free coffee, kettle, Lego, nanny state, Review, robot, Rooibos, star destroyer, Star Wars, Tea, Village Tea Company Review, Walmart

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Heavy Topics and Lighthearted laughs

There are a ton of different stories that can be covered by this show, they range in the stone serious to the laughably funny. We try to strike a balence to keep people both entertained and informed. With Caffeine in our bellies and concern in our hearts we try to walk the line between the stoic and the silly. This episode showcases that dichotomy quite well.

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Geek Cruft:

• Illustrating the problem with piracy.
• The true cost of piracy is our attention span
• School Laptop Kerfuffle
• A Bubble Wrap TV? Awesome
• What Google Voice really is
• Color Quiz
• Low cost solar pool heater
• Why didn’t i think of this? Cat Godzilla
• Ever had problem differentiating Chile from Chille? You’re not alone
• Sleep in the mushroom kingdom
• Where is my LOL button?
• Rube Goldberg now with chess
• Large Hadron Collider now has webcams online
• Ultimate networking cable adapter
• Droid App Rundown Ustream is meh

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Here there be dragons… with coffee
• 50 Stunning Coffee Foam Art pieces
• Eva Solo? Stunning design
• What color is your cocktail?
• Munch some history? Nintendo style

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Tags: Coffee, Contebnt, dragons, DRM, droid, laptop kerfuffle, LHC, LOL Button, Mushroom Kingdom, Piracy, Quilts, Rube Goldberg, School Laptop, sleep, Study

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Only you can make this show work

SO apparently the snow and housework has taken a huge toll on my available energy. So the show has also had its worst month of episodic breaks in quite some time. I’ll make sure that this is the end of such shenanigans.

Any podcaster worth his salt or his shovel would have dug out and continued on. But apparently being stuck in the house for long periods of time with not much to do struck a cord in our family and we started a project. Hanging our new TV on the Wall, including cabling the beast behind the wall. If i felt comfortable that i Did it the right way I would have written it up as a wonderful how too, I still might. But this house is such that no good intended project goes unpunished.  So we’ll give you a rundown on that was well.

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Geek Cruft:

• Go National Pride, Online
• Adobe Flash and writing on the wall
• It ain’t easy being Squid
• Pixar and Legos. Gotta love it
• Google and Pricacy 10 helpful settings
• Mud Volcano, man made problem. Centrailia all over again
• Antibiotics, the problem
• Kindle gets 65,000 book injection of classics
• A shotgun, revolver * Live Version Only
• Beat the lamp till its useful
• X wings can’t be too far off
• Tetris on the brain
• Are you a tech or a salesman. you need to be both
• Droid

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Caffeine test strips going the wrong route
• Seasonality of coffee? What say You
• Poorly executed Opulent Teacup
• Take 2 on BODY Coffee
• 22 Carat Vodka
• Rocketfuel
• Putting Things in Coffee, thanks MAS
• Thanks Gina, BK to sell SBUX?

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Tags: bacteria, books, burger king, centrailia, droid, Kindle, LAMP, Lego, live, mud volcano, sbux, shotgun, tetris

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No Work and All Play makes Paul a Tired Guy

So the dual shot of approximately 45 inches of snow since the last broadcast has both drained my energy reserves from shoveling it and charged my batteries. The past couple of winters in good old Philadelphia have been lackluster warm and rainy events. I love snow and i love the cold so i’v been in a very tired heaven this year. This is also not the officially snowiest winter in Philadelphia history with over 60 inches of snowfall since December. Wow!

I played around with some new crufted together camera gear for a dog cam, linked on ustream, and played with some other settings on ustream to spice up the show. Norbert and I even tried to work on a cohosting thing yesterday to no avail. it will all work out in the end no worries.

Tonights bit of snowy awesomeness covers robots, design principles, retro game cakes and coffee best practices, and new wave building materials.

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Geek Cruft:

• Reusable paper / printer system breaks the bank
• GRRRReat Modern Gramophone
• Hack yourself a CNC painter
• Transparent aluminum it isn’t but spray on glass is pretty neat
• Screw in Coffin, Bore yourself after death
• Cupid’s Arrow message for VDay
• Beware MECHA Mario
• Robot Symbiont, oddball robot story of the week
• Be it ever so humble there’s no place like
• Dress your wii for success
• Keyboard Brush
• Solar Tech in backpacks
• Google Fibre Network!
• Gizmos sneeze themself clean
• Bowlingual, What’s that fido? Timmy’s down a well?
• Leash with light, and no batteries
• Dog-E-Minder

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• What is Slimming Coffee?
  • All coffee is slimming its the crap you put in there that messes it up
  • Black Coffee FTW
• Pac Man Arcade Cabinet Cake
• How does your office do coffee? Free or otherwise?
• Interlocking Mugs
• Stir with your finger mug
• Coco in Cheetos

What you may have missed this week

• <3 for your Sw33ty. Valentines Card Printables
• To mac or not to Mac, in Planned Obsolescence
• Shroomy News and  Smurfy Houses

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Tags: Cake, cheetos, Coffee, Cupid, gramophone, green tech, Ink, Mario, mug, pac-man, Pacman, printer, valentines day, Vday

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You know… I’m disappointed in the geeks

Believe it or not today was my monday and it felt like it. The whole fam, save for me, went down for the count starting last friday. So we’ve been doing shots of lysol, and rubbing alcohol around these parts.

Great Conversation leads to fantastic stories and information. A wonderfully full episode. Brimming over with awesome and topped with humor and rampaging cats.

I’m focusing on putting more content on the blog as a whole, updates daily and one off fun news and design stories all week long. Its like a to go portion of my special brand of crazy. However for the random bits of detris and the slightly off color remarks caffination.tumblr.com will still hold sway.

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Geek Cruft:

• TDIT: Gutenberg’s Legacy. Project Gutenberg
• Edison would be proud, Replica Gramophone
• Lego Wallet?
• Lego Rubic’s Cube Solver
• Massive Lego Airbus a380! Touchscreen enabled With Snakes
• From Awesome, to horrifying, Lego Attack Spider
• Take it with you Simon Says, my best score was 26
• Cell Phone Range extender, get a signal in a CAVE
• Its On! Multitouch comes to Nexus One
• G-Blade. A Butterfly Knife for Shaving. I’d love it!
• AV Geeks Unite, Awesome Connector Shirt
• Bittorent leaks for Lost, but no one bit
• Ship-Wrecked 1925 Bugatti
• JooJoo throws a gauntlet
• Data Permanence is a problem, Heiroglyphs beat Hardrives

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Pizza Plotter? where do i sign up?
• Coffee Not Linked to tinnitus
• Ethiopian Coffee Sorting Video
• Coffee Taste tests of major brands surprise no one in coffee community
• Coffee Analytics. Interesting Idea
• Caffeinated Chaw? ummm…. yuk

What you may have missed this week

• Fold-able Power
• Coffee and Chocolate
• Hot Mugs, Cool Art
• Wardriving Made Easy

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: android, Coffee, coffee geeks, Google, gramophone, gutenberg, Lego, Nexus One, robot, shaving, simon, torrent

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Its an HTTP Error Silly

With last week being off the charts crazy We’rte hoping for a much more sedate and productive week this time around. In that spirit we’ve been sending nothing but positive waves man. Google waves, non withstanding. By the by if you want an invite to google wave drop me a line and I’ll send one your direction.

Tonights show was a fun process, I’m always working on the details of creating a CaffiNation Episode, so from time to time the hiccups in production create a happy accident. This was one of those times, i messed up the machine i use for recording only to find it better set up the new way. Hopefully the quality comes through in the end.

I’m focusing on putting more content on the blog as a whole, updates daily and one off fun news and design stories all week long. Its like a to go portion of my special brand of crazy. However for the random bits of detris and the slightly off color remarks caffination.tumblr.com will still hold sway.

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Geek Cruft:

• Building speaks to your gadgets
• Controlling people like some sort of game? Bad Idea
• Worms, video game sculptures
• Build your own plane
• Unmanned flight for Olympic security?
• Round Monopoly? bad-design
• Garbage in… Recycled Toilet paper out
• Make your own iPad, lego Style
• First Snuggies, now Cozy… Pillow Gloves
• Retro Awesome Joystick
• Recycled Furniture, where is the Spool / Table?
• How the Chevy Volt actually works
• Feed your cats with a simple hack
• Scan your documents, quickly
• World Oldest MultiTool! Well probably a misnomer, might be first after the stick

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Huge hat to tip Widge from NeedCoffee
• Beautiful web series about coffee, Espresso Episode
• Is coffee benefiting from a double standard?
• Rhino Teapot
• Retro Shot Glasses
• New Size in Starbucks…
• Grind and Brew Review. I think this must be a newer model
• Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

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Tags: Atari, Coffee, ethiopian coffee ceremony, gadgets, monopoly, Retro, roast, scanner, Snuggie, Tea, Video Games, worms