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Who watches the watchers? Who owns your content?

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Today’s show has a mix of fun and frowns. While there is a good deal to get excited about concerning our digital future there are also storm clouds on the horizon as they’re always are. The recent Amazon Orwellian kerfuffle has bloomed, some would say mushroom clouded into a larger narrative on the subject of ownership and privacy.

There were so many different takes on privacy and security this week that i decided to devote a huge chunk of the show to covering these stories.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week. Week Four is Underway!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Google Wave Rundown, Invites heading out the door Sept 30th
• Bad Poetry? Hopefully it will get me in
• Amazon kerfuffle in a stark light
• Verizon on your privacy, can you hear us now?
• Tiburon, CA. Will take your picture.
• Nothing to hide? Try Bruce Schneier’s take
• Limited edition data, Care to try Self destructing data.
• If its digital its everlasting
• Gibson’s Agrippa poem
• Medieval battle records now online! Direct link to site (Newspaper failed to link to the site… of course)
• OnStar can shut off your engine, in case its stolen. Potential for abuse? or glitch… yup
• Germany to control your car horn in case of emergency?
• Revamp the three laws? Small problem. No one built them into the robots in the first place.
• Suaron’s Eye to be installed in Hawaii
• Walmart throwing money at environmental footprint database
• LHC pushed back again. 2012 anyone?
• Spark plug break through
• To the moon with Google Earth
• Things your kids may never Know

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• On Tap review of a Coffee cold brewing solution and roasting video / articles
• Sour coffee? wonder how it happened
• Corn syrup or sugar? Can you taste the difference

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: agrippa, amazon, Apollo moon landing, asimov, Bruce Schneier, gibson, Google Earth, google wave, Kindle, LHC, onstar, orwell, Robots, Walmart

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Today’s Show is dedicated to the Moms of the world

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First off happy Mother’s Day to everyone out there responsible for bringing life into this world. Today’s show is special because i shared it with my mother. We set up a time and sat down and recorded the whole thing this past week. If you listen closely you can also hear a the background noise that is my son playing in the studio.

I’ve never had a co-host on the show before so this was a learning experiance. The mobile lair for the caffination needs a little tweaking before the sound quality is as good as the episodes produced regularly but I look forward to trying more on the spot recordings. I’d like to thank my mom for taking time out to spend discussing geeky things and trying to embarrass me.

Shared with my mom, and delivered to you, here is episode 333 packed with stories and laughs

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft:

• The Amazon Kindle, Problems and solutions.
  • Patent given as well
• A new type of dumpster diving
• Pool or disco you decide
• NYPD Green? PR stunt or real commitment
• Are blogs weapons? Weapons of mass distraction maybe. Slippery slope
• Self healing concrete. Time heals all wounds and now so does rain
  
• LED grow light, turn your basement into a disco
  
• USB Necklaces? What do the ladies think

Raising Geek

• Stories about raising a geek

Caffeinated Bits

• Play with your food, or print on your eggs
• Finger food, or how to poke your eye out while eating cheese
  
• Spices per page, a new way of cooking?
• More chemicals in your beverage sir?
• Power pellets, why did this candy not come out a while ago
• Swords and cooking, how could this not work
• Artsy glass for your wine, confusing to drink from
• A flavor infusion pitcher. neat idea

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: amazon, blogs, books, co-host, concrete, eggs, green tech. dumpsters, Kindle, LED, Mothers Day, NYPD, Pacman, pools, Spices, swords, USB, weapons, wine

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Today’s Show:  Weather, Lego, Silly Putty, Coffee, Kindle 2, Retro, Steampunk, Geneva Convention, Yerba Mate, Popcorn, Weddings, and Cancer

This show has some absolutely great content from pressing issues on the Internet as a whole to some fun new designs working on old problems. One thing that always gets me is when people put enough effort into a product or a design and just miss the finishing touches, the small bits of finish that really set aside a good piece from a great piece, unfortunately we have a couple of those examples as well.

Over all this is a strong show with content from a wide variety of topics and sources and I hope that the Title and the content on the episode really explore the duality of living online. You are both virtual and real at the same point as some of the stories I found are old and new, polar opposites in one combination or just a perfect match. The entire day around the Caffination Lair has felt like it was waiting for something exciting and something fun, I’d like to welcome you to that exciting and Fun event right now.

As always Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Facebook TOS Democracy
• A little late in the season, but Hot Pants for cold days
• Silly Putty Commercially Available for 50 yrs Thanks Jeff!
• Kindle goes mute on books
• Sweet Tech idea, Hershey USB?
• Economy of space, Multitool! Light and Lighter Nunchaku
• Retro Multi console NES / SNES Combo
• Paintball Turret Because its there
• Steampunk realized via LEGO
• Steampunk lamp gets the aesthetic but not the concept right
• No Call of Duty with the Rules of engagement

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Words to Live By, 5 tips for Better Coffee for Company
• Fake or not this video is some fun. Popcorn in your mouth?
• Yerba Mate, old vs new concept design
• Love and Video Games together forever
• New Design for an old problem Ice Bottle reimagined
• Caffeine kills cancer cells, its official I’m on my way to living forever

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: amazon, Cancer, Coffee, facebook, Geneva Convention, Hershey, ice bottle, Kindle, kindle 2, kindle2, Lego, paintball, Popcorn, Retro, Silly Putty, Steampunk, TOS, Weather, weddings, Yerba Mate