CaffiNation 518: PT

Tonight's show was just as off the wall as it usually ends up being, with everything from Shots to Hermit Crabs, from 3d Printing to Zombies, Mini cakes to Comic books and anything in between.

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Zombie Family Car Stickers

File this under things my wife won’t approve of. But i still think are awesome. I need to get these ZOMBIE FAMILY CAR STICKERS.

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Fizzgig!

The Dark Crystal, one of my favorite movies of all time, and partly the reason I still own a VCR, my kid is going to see the same version I did, no more of this buying the same movie every 8 years nonsense. Ranking right up there with the Black Cauldron as spooky and awesome [...]

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Set your Day to Awesome!

  It’s been a while since we debuted a new poster here. So this is the latest design to work its way out of my head. Thinking of the coffee mug like a knob on a dryer or an Awesome Machine. You know where i would set that bad boy! Right to 11. Anywhoo Enjoy Set your [...]

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CaffiNation 517: Theft

We move from ranting about serious subjects, to discussing zombie kill plans, We hit on Accents, and make fun of everyone, even ourselves. From Geek to Groan, this episode has some great puns, some good information and some hearty laughs.

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The CaffiNation visits NeedCaffeine.com

  Certain things in life need to be enjoyed to their fullest. Close your eyes, sip by gentle sip taking the world’s cares and pushing them to the side for one mug at a time. Do this enough and your problems might melt away. I was recently sent a wonderful care package by NeedCaffeine.com a fine purveyor [...]

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ACTA the next problem

So far we have fought for net nuetrality, and may or may not have won. We hit SOPA where it hurts, and PIPA is reeling. It’s alphabet soup. The latest head to pop up with this hydra is ACTA. It isn’t a US law, or a UK law. this is an international treaty, designed to [...]

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PIPA and SOPA votes postponed

As a general FYI and news of the Day bump, The votes for both PIPA and SOPA have been put on hold, it doesn’t mean they are dead, and with wonderful rhetoric like This Gem from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), “But the day will come when the Senators who forced this move will look back and realize [...]

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Abuse of Power

Yesterday wasn’t fun for me. I lost money, and lost a lot of fun. I lost ad revenue from people coming to my tiny little corner of the internet and clicking on an ad or two. Reading a funny post or learning a thing or two. Perhaps listening to the podcast that was supposed to record live [...]

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SOPA / PIPA DNS filtering “off the table”

You want power? You need to fight. You want to negotiate you have to ask for things you would be willing to cut to get what you really want. The biggest problems with the SOPA and PIPA legislation that everyone saw right off the bat was DNS filtering. You force sites off the internet by [...]

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Back in Black: Stop SOPA / PIPA

We here at the CaffiNation don’t take our freedoms lightly. And we are banding together with Boing Boing, Google and many other websites to show people what the internet means to our society. Bad legislation that gives unchecked power to not only disable sites, but to do so in a hamfisted way, which can very easily [...]

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CaffNation 515: 6 years

It’s been 6 years of doing this show! Thank you for your support Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions : Direct link to this Episode! I’m always looking for something to spice up the show, like a fine curry one show is never quite like the next. But after 6 years its hard to see the differences some [...]

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Vinnie Jones’ CPR training

Vinnie Jones, known for playing tough guy roles such roles as Big Chris in” Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”, Sphinx in “Gone in 60 Seconds, has recently starred in a commercial for “The British Heart Foundation“, where he is promoting “Hands-Only CPR” And in today’s society, I believe people would prefer Hands-Only CPR to [...]

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Live From CES with TPN

The CaffiNation Podcast has been running since January 9th 2006, and Since April of 2006 we have been part of the fine folks at the Techpodcast Network. As it is their custom the fine folks at the TPN are winging their way to Las Vegas for CES, the consumer Electronics show. Basically a week long technology festival [...]

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The dark side now has burgers

The french are know for a great many refined things in the world, dainty cheeses, varied wines, and champagne. Well you can add another culinary masterpiece, with a little geek flair thrown in. Enter, with appropriate music of course, the Darth Vader (apprently Vador in french) Burger! Actually the picture looks even more epic when [...]

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CaffiNation 514: Back Once Again

A Night as Clear as Day! Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions You would think with as much build up the holiday season has I would have been ready for it? Well i wasn’t in fact the last week leading up to the Holiday was a blur. Buildings moved at work, sling came off, arm is no [...]

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Happy Holidays From the CaffiNation!

We here at the CaffiNation Podcast and Puzzle Piece Productions would like to send out our warmest wishes to you and yours this holiday season. There are so many problems in the world it’s quite nice to spend a few moments with family and friends celebrating the things that are going your way. So our [...]

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CaffiNation 513: Noises

Bringing the Noise, the jury is still out on the funk Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions Getting into the Holiday mood was never a problem when you were younger. But what about now? How do you continue to kringle things up when you hit the Post childhood years? Why by finding tons of fun things to eyeball and [...]

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Stop SOPA Now!

If you like this website, hell if you hate this website, but like the ability to choose where you go online please read below. Quite Simply SOPA will allow the US government to turn off websites, on whim of a corporation. This will break the internet, no hyperbole. “Tomorrow, the US government will vote to have [...]

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Beam up the Savings!

You have to love a good old bad local commercial. And even more when they throw in a lovely swath of geek references. The USS Dodd doesn’t disappoint. And i guess even geeks need to sleep sometime… Now Don’t Klingon to those old mattresses… Classic. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rhett and Link had a new client [...]

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Sleep Trek Style

Ever wanted to fall asleep abroad the USS Enterprise, any of them. To fall asleep after leaving your post, to the sultry sounds of the warp cores humming in some far off section of the ship. Well wait no longer. Here is a 24hr loop of the Ambient engine noise from Star Trek TNG… Wow. Sooooo Soothing: [...]

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Gojira invades the mall

Although decorating the tree for Christmas is festive, I believe making it look like a monster would scar the kids for life…especially in Japan. In 2000, at the Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, located in Japan, the holiday decorative committee decided to construct a christmas tree in the shape of Godzilla. Not only did they shape it to look like him, [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews: Third Street Chai Festivus Chai

I recently got to try out Third Street Chai‘s Wonderful Festivus Chai. Little know fact this Coffee lover also happens to really enjoy Chai and Tea in various forms. If they are done well. This all natural Savory blend comes in at just the right time. Heat a little milk, throw in the concentrate and boom [...]

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CaffiNation 512: K

We find ourselves with a ton of news and only so many hours a day to read it all in. The reviews are flowing once more, we have a fresh fire lit under my can and a wonderful outlook for the holiday season. This show has some bad jokes some good laughs and some wonderful discussion. All in a nights work. You really owe it to yourself to make the live show. We do our best to throw down a good time!

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Xbox TV

As each year goes by, all the gadgets and gizmos get smaller and smaller. And more and more start to become obsolete. You would never think that the cable box could disappear. Well, think again. The wonderful folks over at Microsoft has showed us that the process of elimination has begun. With the most recent [...]

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Autobot Transformer Ukulele

There are few things in life more pleasurable than learning how to play an instrument. what would happen if that instrument was also awesome in its own right? Why the sheer force of awesomeness would flow forth from your apartment or garage and George Carlin would show up in a time traveling phone booth…   [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews: KeepCup

We all love having our tasty hot beverages on the go, and now with KeepCup the options to do so are growing in a much more earth friendly manner. I’ve been play testing this replacement for a take out cup for about a month now. And I’d like to share my findings with you. What is a [...]

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House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix

Who hasn’t felt the pangs of loss when an old scanner goes to that great digital divide in the sky? Who hasn’t had a moment of heartbreak as a digital denizen passes on? Well imagine if all your old tech could sing. That is what you get when Stepper Motors and other bits and bobs [...]

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The Secret to Good Coffee

I like making coffee almost as much as I like drinking coffee. Which I guess is helpful, but the problem with loving coffee is that you need to be able to repeat the results for company. Now I previously posted 5 tips for making coffee for company. Please consider this an update. Secrets on making coffee people [...]

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CaffiNation 511: Mensmerizing!

Turkey Hangover ain’t no joke Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions A lot of news got snowed under by the mountain of savings that happened this past week. We shuffle through the marketing fluff to find you the best in bad jokes and the worst in horrible puns. We find some fun additions to our favorite software bundles, we [...]

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Super Mario on an Accordion

The sweet sound of Nintendo. A trio of accordion players from Bulgaria have brought the sweet sound of Super Mario to our ears. And it has got to be the best rendition I have heard yet.

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CaffiNation 510: Woo Hoo

A nice week of recovery, some good news from the doctor and a lot of things getting done. A bit of geekery and a lot of bad humor and you have tonight's episode. We hit everything from Google TV to vertical chess. Talk about some epic thanksgiving feasts to be had and discuss the wonders of lollipops and true fair trade coffee.

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AgroEcology Coffee

Some stories start out as a simple review. get a product, review the product, publish findings. I’m not going to lie, I love getting coffee sent to me to review. AgroEco Nicaraguan coffee did more than teach me how to spell Nicaragua, it opened my eyes a bit. But before we get into the heavy stuff lets clear [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews: Savor Sweets Espresso Candy

What do you get when you mix real ingredients, with actual sugar and a commitment to being environmentally friends? Well a tasty treat if you do it right. The fine folks at Savor Sweets are home to a whole host of different examples of how to do this right. And they were kind enough to send some samples [...]

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Google Music Grows up

  No longer in Beta, Google has announced an update to their Google Music Service. Here is the breakdown. The service will remain free to host 20,000 of your tracks online, for streaming playback via mobile devices, download and syncing of playlists between devices.  I love being able to set a playlist as available for offline playback [...]

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CaffiNation 509: Special Edition

Shoulder Surgery Went well, but i’m not well enough to pitch a fit… get it? Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions This has been a long layoff, I lost a whole week there recovering from the shoulder surgery. Still not back to being 100 percent, I lot has gone into the news about 99, or the 1 [...]

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Peta attacks Tanooki Mario

Since the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. franchise, which began in 1983, there hasn’t been any kind of complaints about any of the game content in the series. Personally, I wouldn’t think there would be. Well, I guess I was wrong. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has decided to finally show there concern about [...]

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The Bionic Bumper Cars

Everybody has played Rock’ Em Sock’ Em at least once in there life time. Personally, I prefer the red guy, also known as the Red Rocker. Now as an adult, you wouldn’t mind playing the game, but you need to have it a little more exciting. Well, the people over at Hammacher Schlemmer has given [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews NBA2k12

What do some of these names mean to you?   Kareem Abdul-Jabba, Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving,  Patrick Ewing,  Magic Johnson,  Michael Jordan,   Karl Malone,  Hakeem Olajuwon,  Scottie Pippen,  Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, John Stockton, Isiah Thomas, Jerry West? If you are a fan of basketball then they mean years of memories, history that lives on beyond the end of eachseason. This year [...]

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Comfort Coffee

The air has a chill to it. The leaves have almost all fallen. And the days feel right. Coffee means a lot of things to a lot of people, to me it means Comfort. Comfort A smooth deep brew slowly wafting sultry scents your way A promise of comfort, A premiss of decadence Coffee this [...]

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Mrs CaffiNation’s Pumpkin Pie Brownies

On episode 507,  we talked a bit about the Pumpkin Pie Brownies from Foodbeast. Well I also sent Mrs CaffiNation the same story. And since I’m all laid up after shoulder surgery she made a couple chnges and whipped up some sinfully tasty goodies. Thick fudge Pumpkin pie goodness. Rather than use the Brownie mix as a basis for [...]

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Call of Duty: Heist

With the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 due out Tuesday, November 8, many are waiting patiently. However, some gamers in France were so excited, they just couldn’t wait. Saturday was a disaster for Activision, with the hijacking of not one, but two trucks, both containing copies of the next installment of Call of Duty. The estimated [...]

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CaffiNation Reviews: Wired Waffles

What would happen if you were able to enjoy your favorite breakfast food and have the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, without the spill hazard? Well the folks at Wired Waffles have the answer. They recently sent us a sample of their wares to run through its paces. We have previously covered these [...]

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Holiday Tea Treats

The following recipes have been shared with me by the fine folks at Lipton, so I pass them along to you as they look mighty tasty. I love when brands share out recipes for any event, and as per usual you can substitute your favorite brand of tea or brew your own into the recipes as you see [...]

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CaffiNation 508: Traction

On tonight's show we have a decent crop of fun articles dealing with the Dia de Los Muertos!, a Halloween Rap up and a few zombie bits thrown in. We have pumpkins galore, Star Wars, and some fun video game news to break. Overall the show was fun, the live show, well attended and the content is awesome. What more could you want?

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Train Station decorated with 8-bit Nintendo

After being commisioned to cover an entire train station consisting of  8-bit artwork, Finnish artist Lars Arrhenius went to work. The Thorildsplan Tunnelbana station, a train station in Stockholm, Sweden, was redecoratred in 2008.   The entire station is covered in artwork inspired by early 1980′s Nintendo games. The artowrk consists of Dig Dug, Pacman, Super Mario Bros, and [...]

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Traditional pumpkin carvings

This year we are rocking out the traditional pumpkin shapes. With time being limited I would rather have two clean looking pumpkin ghouls. Not too shabby for 25 minutes per pumpkin. How do you throw down for all hallows eve? I personally love making a tall steaming cup of coffee, chatting with the neighbors and [...]

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AT-AT RC

  I wonder how the battle on Hoth would have turned out if the Empire had been rocking these sweet rides. No pesky flying ships trailing chains to trip up a lumbering machine.Christopher Aleria had a different idea of what a AT AT should be, and he used a Axial Rock Cralwer as the base for this one [...]

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Caffination 507: Spooky Awesome

We Also decide to dive headfirst into the wonderful season that is almost upon us. Since this is our last show before Halloween we have a bevy of spooky and funny stories to share, some last minute costume ideas and of course lots of pumpkins. Tonight we also flip things around a bit on Coffee Up!

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Gameboy Zombie

What do you do with a gameboy that hasn’t been used in quite some time. You make a zombie, that’s what you do. And that is exactly what artist Donald Kennedy, an artist over at KodyKoala, did with his old gameboy. Other than the gameboy, he also used hands from a Iron Man Monger figure [...]

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Mike Wazowski Pumpkin Carving

I love carving Pumpkins, and this is the time of year I get to show off my favorite designs. Now Pumpkins don’t always end up what they were intended to be. I started this pumpkin as a Cyclops, but as i started to do the eye ym Son yelled MIKE WAZOWSKI! and I had to [...]

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Super Mario High Heels

Even though none of us here at Caffination are female, or wear any type of woman’s clothing, I thought these were a must see. These were just a personal project. However, if they were to be sold at all, I’m sure the would be quite the hot item among the geeky girls.

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Pumpkin Carving at its best

With Halloween right around the corner, nothing gets the spirit going like carving a pumpkin. I know Paul is talented in carving a pumpkin, but I have not been granted that gift. However, nothing can beat the carvings by Ray Villafane, an artist for Villafane Studios. Some of his carvings are just amazing. His work [...]

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EpicMegaTime Energon!

My son was asking me what transformers ate the other day. I of course answered Energon… An dthen he asked how you make it. And i didn’t have an answer… Now I do. In true Internet meme style. Back that truck up Playah! We bout to change the transformer game EpicMegaTime byNGSMOOV epic meal time [...]

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Smaug over the Lonely Mountain

Last year I started to carve a dragon, and messed up a bit. Put a hole in the other side of the pumpkin. Only one thing left to do when you mess up. Make it into something amazing. What dragon was bitten by a hole in the side of the mountain? None other than the [...]

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The One Pumpkin

Fantastic carving job A carvered Pumpkin, the black speech. I dare not utter it here. But this is a flava flave style pendent if you were to try and wear it around your neck. What does it make invisible? From the artist… “One pumpkin to scare them all One pumpkin to find them One pumpkin [...]

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Light cycle comes to life

Anybody who has seen Tron, knows the best thing about the movie, other than the graphics, is the “Light Cycle.” Owning a bike that looks that good would cost you a pretty penny, $55,000 to be exact. You would find the gasoline powered “Light cycle” over at Hammacher Shlemmer. The Tron bike was presented last [...]

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CaffiNation 506: Zombie Fun

It has been quite a week, and quite a day around these parts. Lots of things getting done, but not a lot of news on one of our favorite topics. Coffee is like that some days there is a ton of stuff to talk about, others.... not so much. We have a bunch of Halloween themed stories to bring back from the dead, and some fun gadgets and news to discuss join us!

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Rocksmith, Forge your Skills

Are you a Rhythm Gamer? Guitar Hero god? Completed Physcobilly Freakout on iNSANE? nicely done. However real guitar players have long since derided these accomplishments as “button pushing” and other less savory terms. File Rock Band, Guiatr Hero and Dance Dance Revolution into the same catagory. Follow instructions on a screen to get better in a very specific set of tasks. [...]

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Siri – Then and Now

Siri is the new Apple personal assistant, voice recognition app. It can do so many things, and apparently one of them is comedy! Part of the challenge of designing software that reacts to people in real language is dealing with unexpected input. This isn’t a new problem, drop an F bomb in Zork, and you get [...]

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Buckyballs goes Cube.

When I found Buckyballs, a bunch of pebble sized balls made from rare earth magnets, it wasn’t long before I had to get it. And when I did, I had nothing but fun for weeks. And I still have fun to this day. Recently, the company who sells Buckyballs have brought out a new product, [...]

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Fall cleaning at Google

  …   Google is officially ending a couple of their programs. Some of them today, others a bit further down the roadmap. Today for instance is the last time you can go into Google Labs! They announced that it would be closing down a while ago, and today… is that day. According to the [...]

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Zombie Candy Corn

Meet Out Out Damned Corn (Patient 0) and Return of Yellow #5 (Patient 1). Candy Monsters… tell your friends. In fact warn your friends.  Artist Andrew Bell has seen the light and in the creation of his project The Creatures in My Head. And he has set out to expose the dangers of zombie candy. We can only [...]

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CaffiNation 505: Not a Dinghy

Tonight's show is a pleasant mix of fun tech and wonderful caffeinated stories. We have Coffee in film, a hilariously SFW view of the adult industry and Sony... well being sony. Netflix, Nintendo and a Baby link also show up

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Blackboards in Porn

Who says the internet can’t teach you things. The Adult industry has long since used the taboo subject of  Student / Teacher flings as fodder for a genre of its films. But this site, in response to those films is hilarious. Blackboards in Porn is an academic studeny on the contents of the blackboards found in [...]

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Barcade Philly!

You know… I was just thinking how much I would love to be able to play retro video games (1980′s Style), and enjoy the fine atmosphere of a night out with my friends all at the same time. I’ve talk about the Barcade in Brooklyn, mostly in hushed reverential  tones. Never in my wildest dreams [...]

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Netflix says “Forget what I said.”

About a month ago, I released a story about how Netflix was making big changes. This news did not sit well with just about every subscriber of Netflix. Comments came pouring in about splitting the company into 2 different services. The overall feeling was that it was the worst idea for Netflix to come up [...]

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Google TV plus Ubuntu

I have a wonderful little setup at home, a Ubuntu Media Server running Boxee in the basement, makes the experience watching tv a wonderful thing. Views all my movies, TV online and a ton of fun other little features. But one thing was missing. My Google TV was cut off from the Pack, I couldn’t watch my [...]

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Grateful Dead Wine

The band The Grateful Dead is a great many things, musical pioneers, community trailblazers. But up until now they haven’t been wine. And now they are.  joining the Wines that Rock collections along with the likes of the Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd. Available online in 3, 6, and 12 bottle packs. Enough for the whole [...]

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The passing of a giant

Steve Jobs died on October 5th 2011, at the age of 56. The news of which broke not an hour before we started to record our podcast. PodCast… As much as disagree with the association between iPods and podcasts, it’s there. And no amount of Portable on Demand broadcasting can change it. People listen on [...]

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CaffiNation 504: A Giant Falls

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life” ~Steve Jobs Sponsored by Puzzle Piece Productions The tone of tonights show was different right up until the time we had to record it. Am I going to spend the whole episode rehashing and talking about it? No, but things deserve their due. And a man [...]

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Shark Attack Mug

    You know you have a certain theme song in your head right now! Bah Dum, Bah Dum…. and so on Its a Shark that appears as you drink, and will eat your face, if he ever gets released from carbonite… or Porcelain. ( bucks is not a bad deal. I love the tagline, [...]

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World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids)

 What do you get when an old school rapper like Method Man hits up some Sour / Sweet candy treats? Viral Gold… I love me some Sour Patch Kids. And according to the video a new game called World Gone Sour This video has some seriously quotable lines, and a lovely Star wars reference. World Gone Sour (The Lost [...]

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Free Portal 2 DLC is now available

Alright Party people. Portal 2 is a fan favorite around these parts. Both  hosts of this fine show have sunk numerous hours into the full and total enjoyment. But we crave more. Today! Those prayers have been answered. Portal 2′s first DLC pack including a continuation  of the storyline of Atlas and P-Body as well as [...]

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Dead Island coming to theaters?

The recent release of “Dead Island” has gained good reception on the gameplay. However, what made “Dead Island” a big success was something better than the game itself. When the trailer for the game hit the internet, about 10 million hits were made to the video in just 2 days. With a huge response to [...]

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