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This week we have a a goodly bit of content to send your direction. The Numbers are in and we have Duke Nukem Liftoff The Winner is announced. But Fret not if you didn’t win you can still stick around for some of the other giveaways we will have in the coming months! We are looking into a couple different

What is on tap tonight? We have a decent serving of Steampunk, Zelda and a dash of humor. Not too much mind you. Wouldn’t want to ruin the drapes. We also hit up some fantastic comic news, a bit of lego fauxery and a wonderful Google Music Review

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Geek Cruft

• Geeky This Week
• Congrats to our Duke Winner!
• DC Relaunch!
• Zelda Williams? Why did I not know this? Very Cool Ad
• Chinese Iron Man Mark I suit
• Google Music, Good or Great?
• Own a Steampunk Laptop
• Hoverbike! I want one
• I love this idea Lego Style Planters out of Cinderblocks, gives me an idea
• Link Amigurumi
• Pacman Frames
• Arcade Button light switches… oh yes this will be done
• Silly Scientists, don’t you watch movies? This can’t end well
• The House that Cruft built
• Google Live Streamed an Eclipse… pretty cool

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Edible Flowers? Or Edible Candy Flowers
• Edible but not palatable. Ghost peppers!
• Musical Wine glasses made easy
• News Brews, takes news and makes a tasty Treat
• Caffeinated Leggings? No, please stop

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated!
From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast
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The wrong settings can ruin a cup for french press, destroy an espresso machine or make your autodrip nice and weak. Enter the latest item to cross my desk. The wondrous Breville Smart Grinder, BCG800XL. Breville was nice enough to send me the unit to review. I wanted to put the machine through a real world test, and that meant drinking a lot of coffee. I tried them all from French press to cold brew, espresso to Greek coffee.

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I sifted through the tattered remains of my week to find bits of awesome content. Hopefully you enjoy steampunk, science fiction movies, coffee, t shirts and geekery as much as I do. But then again you ARE listening to the only place that has all of the above with any type of regularity! Enjoy the show.

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If you mention flavored coffee to most coffee lovers, myself included I’m usually not interested. But there was something a bit intriguing about the Starbucks Natural Fusions, their flavors are not chemical in nature, they are actually made by including extracts and spices into the blend as the coffee is ground. I myself have thrown a cinnamon stick or a vanilla bean into coffee to punch it up a little bit, I was curious how the flavors would blend into the coffee if done on a larger scale. This time around we are testing out the caramel flavored coffee.

The last of new natural flavored coffees from Starbucks is Caramel. I was quite worried about this. What direction would they go with caramel? Even most caramel candy isn’t natural these days so how would they play it. Caramel in roasted sugar is a beautiful smell and flavor so I was hoping for something along those lines? What did we get? Well you need to read on. Read the rest of this entry »

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I am very familiar with adding cinnamon to various stages of brewing coffee, either as a spice at the end, throwing a stick in the grinder in the beginning or dashing a bit over the top of the grounds before brewing. So i was pretty excited to see how this flavor combination worked out.

If you mention flavored coffee to most coffee lovers, myself included I’m usually not interested. But there was something a bit intriguing about the Starbucks Natural Fusions, their flavors are not chemical in nature, they are actually made by including extracts and spices into the blend as the coffee is ground. I myself have thrown a cinnamon stick or a vanilla bean into coffee to punch it up a little bit, I was curious how the flavors would blend into the coffee if done on a larger scale. This time around we are testing out the cinnamon flavored coffee.

As per usual all coffee’s submitted are run through the same process a nice coarse grind and a 4 minute steep in the trusty french press. To be through with the testing I also ran the coffee through the venerable Cuisinart Grind and Brew, as well as cold brewing a batch.  Read the rest of this entry »

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What if you could tell your coffeemaker when to brew your coffee?

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What has twitter done for you,Or Your Business? Has it ever made you coffee? Try as i might I hadn’t been able to make twitter give me anything good, until recently that is.

Twitter has been called everything from a frivolous nonsense website, to a fantastic business tool. And on many different levels both assertions are correct. However now I have Twitter to thank for some of the best coffee I’ve had in quite a while. Thanks to the Barista On Duty a Pan Roasting Coffee Fanatic Supreme! Read the rest of this entry »

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From the Heretical Beatles to the Sanctity of Carrier Neutrality on the Net. Buddhist Gamers, Lego Lairs, and Robot soccer, we cover it all and then some

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I was the guest host for this weeks edition of TechPodcast Weekly today. I decided to cover a bunch of coffee questions that I get asked frequently. Check below for an idea of what went down, and follow the link to the show notes to enjoy the show in all of its majesty

• TPN Weekly Number 17 Coffee Geekery

Cruft

• Summer of Podcast Contest : Podcast Carnival Tonight @ 7pm Central
  • Or check back after the fact to see who won!
• Podcamp Philly @ Temple University October 3,4th
• What is Cruft?
• Geek vs Nerd, Why we’re all geeks at heart. I’m just a coffee geek

Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: Home Roasted Colombian: Watch it being made!

• Plea for a collaborative coffee effort
• Bean Storage
• Grinding, conical burr vs blade, why it matters
• Store grinder
• Cleaning your grinder
• Fair Trade? What does that mean
• Shade Grown?
• Roasting your own, a bit loud but informative

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Like a long fly ball I’m, Outta Here!

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For the next week i’ll be mostly offline, there should be a good deal of awesomeness built up in the archives and new shows dropping while I’m out to saite your thirst for Caffeinated goodness and Techy sweet treats. I’ll also be hosting the TPNW Show for the TechPodcast Network airing on Monday. So Its been a busy week of recording. I’m getting tired of my own voice again.

This time on TPNW I’ll be doing a short informative session on Podcasting Setups and Coffee Basics. Nice short and to the point.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Make sure you check in on August 10th to see the winners!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

Check out the Twitter Poker Tour’s Charity Event to fight Cancer

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• Huge Congrats to GeekNews Central Podcast on dropping Episode 500 on the masses.
• Best of luck going forward

Geek Cruft

• Lasers on Airplanes
• Nissan Leaf neat idea, horrible name
• Weather Station Shower Mirror
• Back to the, Back to the Future
• Shift into Classy
• Nothing says classy like a good sticker chandelier
• Paintball turret plans released, hide the women and frat boys
• Nintendo Mini Classics
• How good does your music sound?

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Never drink and Derive
• Bacon Balm
• What warms your gravy
• Drinking Bingo, Old ladies never had so much fun
• Popcorn Ball Game
• Perfect Pizza Slices
• Cash for Bad Coffee, Nice idea!
• Just because I can, Scrubs Coffee Addiction

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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This episode has everything in it from Dragons, to Conspiracy theories, Legos to Beer. Its great mix, we think of news and information designed to educate and entertain, while covering the wonderful world of tech and caffeine.

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The CaffiNation Podcast runs the new Ronco Coffeetime brew system through its paces and gives our final verdict on this new product

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