The CaffiNation Podcast

 

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On Today’s Show: Green, Brown, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Jetpacks, Power, Star Wars, Caffeine

Real News Bytes

• How can Brown go Green?
• Kids can be a drag
• Thinking beyond yourself: Help the elderly
• Don’t Panic!: Real World Hitchikers Guide

Tech Cruft

• Micro Projector for Cell Phone Movies
• Rocketeer or Jetpack? you decide
• A Tribute, Chaos Theory and Art almost cyberpunk
• Power tree
• Crossover: R2D2 Ice Bucket and Carbonite cubes
• Indoor Herb Garden. Apartment living made fragrant
• Halo Costumes done right
• You know your famous when you get a bug named after you

Caffeine & Food

• Stay up, Stay Safe, Stay Caffeinated
• Crossing the line? Urban Free Range Meat.
  • I have a small history with furry urban beasts
• Starbuck’s new energy look
• Caffeine in Doughnuts
• Caffeine in Milk

Music:

• Nine Inch Nails: 1,000,000

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Biotech, DRM, EA, Wifi, Mothers Day, Highschool, Coats

Real News Bytes

• Philly Wifi Issues
• Interesting Idea fuel on the go
• To kill a coat… Art ventures towards the line
• The fans have spoken. EA and DRM
  • Track Down Mom : Bonus Link
    

Tech Cruft

• WWF: Humor
• How to cheat while fishing
• Game Culture enters the living room
• The Culture of power
• Backyard games, Bug Bat
• Marshmellow gun, come on up the ante fire s’mores
• Man made waterfalls, for art
• get a new Clue
• Halo and Mario Brothers in Highschool

Caffeine & Food

• Ice Sphere
• Dev Cake… I like Cake
• Greek / Turkish Coffee information

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Sickness, Food Poisoning, Coffee, Tea, Common Sense, weddings, mistakes

Real News Bytes

• Trotting out the same tired story is not news. Keyboards are dirty
• Small error that won’t make paying at the pump easier. 9 tenths indeed
• Spiffy Idea, Arm the crossing guards
• Lifelock mistake, CEO involved
• Orson Scott Card Takes Rowlings down a peg
  • Direct Link. Throw down doesn’t cover it. Read this posting
• Blogger gets drilled, but he isn’t the profane one

CaffiNation Out and About

• Philly Food Guys
• Rod’s Pulse Podcast
• Thanks for Talking to Me!

Tech Cruft

• If Pain was a backpack, Helicopter rocket pack doomed
• Robot Bugs will kill us all, Sure they just target people
• Backyard water warfare, revisited
• These shoes were made for networking
• Sustainable LED art for China
  • Steampunk Jewelry, because they can
• Flash Mob Rickroll

Caffeine & Food

• Your my extra life, Gamer themed wedding
• Coffee Round table, Most caffeinated minds join to form Voltron, or Java Man
• Tea is the flavor of the month

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Huge Thank you to Dave Gray & Jeff Powers who via twitter helped me fix this episode!

 

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On Today’s Show: steampunk, wordpress, Metallica, RvB, Utensils, Bikes

• Best wishes to John And Blanca
• Crazy week in review
• Wordpress Tweaking Very short SEO Overview
• Lance Armstrong is Bugging me

Real News Bytes

• Time to buy The White Album again. Holographic Storage debuts
• RvB Explains Gadgets and obsolesce.
• Metallica smells money crawls from under a rock

Tech Cruft

• R2D2 Goes Steampunk, and awesome
• MonoWheel, Transport. Bike engineering hasn’t changed much
• This is a blatant waste of money, squeeze your own tube
  
• What’s inside might scare you. The Dust from your machines hurts their performance
• Not quite there yet but off the grind with a USB crank charger
• Awesome value for the coin, Spin me right round USB Hub

Caffeine & Food

• Off the grid week at Dvice caps with a tasty mallow and a snarky comment session
• Who needs drawers? Utensil Darts
• Star Trek Bottle Opener. Bold go joke goes here
• Coffee Marinade? I’ll try this one shortly.

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Cigarettes, Tea, Coffee, Robots, Bugs, Biodegradable things

• Apologies and a scare

Real News Bytes

• CaffiNation Greens it Up Earth Day Style
• 7 Eco friendly links for web services
• Part of a grand larger plan, but the power source is awesome
• Fire Hydrant means no parking with a twist
  • Open Wheeled Electric car looks old timey and fun

Tech Cruft

• Happy 18th Hubble
• Steampunk Victorian workstation
• Ashes to Ashes, biodegradable coffins
• Robot Buddies, Fire fighting bugs
• A real page turner, Book scanner unmasked
  • Just a little FYI, Laptops are fully searchable by Customs now… # Bonus Link

Caffeine & Food

• Do we need Caffeinated Chips?
• Tragedy and Red Bull. Its not a sports drink moderation is the key
• Edible Dishes! no more soap, Biodegradable, edible and washable!
• Cigarette Tea?
• Combined they form MicroToaster
• Burgeoning Beer Guide

PodSafe Music:

• The Beat Assassins:Going Crazy

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Coffee, Earth Day, Paypal, Voltron, Cheese, and Espresso

• Know-To suggestions?
• Hyadis

Real News Bytes

• Prepping for Earth Day. Free Digital newspaper. RSS anyone?
• Paypal says better safe than Pretty. No to Safari
• Information wants to be free. Darwin’s Footprint evolves
• The kids are alright. If they play video games

Tech Cruft

• Cheesy News: Man Proposes using video game
• Voltron is next. Be all that you can build. Army looking into Robot suites
• Or just put a big gun on a truck
• Fight fire with Fire. Jet powered, but useless firetruck
• Jet 1 Pelican 0. But A for Effort on the bird’s part
• Nothing is scared anymore. Cloudvertisment.
• Homer floats nice

Caffeine & Food

• Cheesy News: Cheese as art
• Wiimote, espresso. nuff said?
• Science once again proves moderation is the key

Want to Contact Me?

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Espresso, Newbs, Storm Troopers, Nasa, Smithsonian, Tetris, Coffee

• Know-To: Photo Printing Help
• AND 2008 how it went down
  • IT Bully? This is what we want to avoid

Real News Bytes

• Why I love Philly, Storm Troopers invade a Phillies Game
• 5th grader lays the smack down on the Smithsonian
• Nasa might want to check their facts again says 13 yr old
• 96 year old Mystery Solved, Titanic mistake
  • When throwing an infringement claim down… beware the educated response Bonus Link
    

Tech Cruft

• This is a hardcore geek. Makes the Watch bend to his will
• This watch works on thin air
• Not to be outdone, a Bike gets the same treatment. Air Powered Cycle
• Devilishly Awesome USB drive
• Kids today have awesome toys, RC boat races
• I mean seriously lots of fun. Tetris Arm wrestling

Caffeine & Food

• Walk in Coffee Experience: Are you experienced?
• Thus Far: there is danger in perfection. 6 shots?
• Misspeak concerning Espresso

Want to Contact Me?

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Podsafe Music Return:

Doug MacLeod: Dubbs Talkin’ Politician Blues

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Thats it Folks, Today is the Adopt a Newb Celebration 2008.

Here is a short primer for what today is supposed to be. Each one of us no matter the level of your technological skill has someone to thank for help along the way. Today is the day I have been pushing and celebrating for the past 3 years as the day to pay it forward. Tax day is traditionally the day were you are called upon to pay your dues to the government. But I wanted to flip this idea upside down, and have everyone concentrate on paying their debt to the tech community at large. Take an extra minute today to explain a concept further or help one less knowledgeable than you take that next step.

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On Today’s Show: Espresso, Newbs, Tips, Grid, Big Brother, Patches, Coffee

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Announcements

• Adopt a Newb in Full Swing. Teach a Man to Tech, April 15th
• CaffiNation Computer Bugs: The Story

Real News Bytes

• Want a dose of reality. The grid is not safe
• The armed services is looking for the mentally fit now
  • Big Brother, officially comes to call - Bonus Link
• Patch test, quickest to slowest. Metrics to be had for security top to bottom

Tech Cruft

• The new wall lights are pretty and spiffy
• Ben Heck, PS3 laptop to engadget being auctioned off for charity
• Not particularly disposable, but New Post Its are awesome
• TV Beat down. Walmart, Best buy and others, gasp don’t follow the rules
• Meet the new bulb and why it will be awhile
• Geek Jewelry

Caffeine & Food

• Coffee and Tunes, neat tech
• New Toy, Happy Birthday to Me
• Party Barista, the good and the bad
• Coffee Bar?
• Iced Coffee

Want to Contact Me?

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Coffee, Compost, Monkeys, Sea Monsters, Greed, Green Living, Phillies

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Announcements

• Adopt a Newb in Full Swing.
• Vampires in your House?

Real News Bytes

• Low Self worth? This won’t Help. ID Thieves are cheap to hire
• New Bot Kraken, ISC Information. If the network news get a hold of this watch out
• Green Garbage Trucks. Go Sweden
• E-voting’s Real results. The Onion weighs in, and spills the beans
• Free Photoshop, with a catch. Even after the refresh

Tech Cruft

• I might be alone on this but most kids don’t need helmets
• Why boycott a game? counterpoint
  • Bonus Link Old school, and old growth meet in NES
    
• Xbox drops the ball, Pricing kills the global market
• The Pearl handled pistol of the new century
• The Internet and the Phillies Rick Roll the Mets
• I’m a fan of Monkeys but this is going a bit too far
• Awesome Japanese Barcode Art

Caffeine & Food

• Starbucks brand maintenance
• Designer Wood Coffee cup holder. Designer’s Site
• Springtime is here again, so is planting season. Coffee Compost
• Grow Joe Backstory, and Direct link for you green thumbs out there

Want to Contact Me?

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!