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Lots of things happening on today’s show, and this is the second show I’m recording today the mother’s Day episode recorded with my Mom will air this coming Sunday morning be sure not to miss it. But for this show we have a ton of great news cobbled together for your listening enjoyment. There is a lot of talk about movies, Goats, video games, corporate mergers, the At symbol and tons of news about coffee.

In other news the weather is starting to effect everyone around here, from the weathermen who aren’t quite as happy about rain events as the used to be to the arks being built on hills all around us. At this point we can hope for sun, or even just a dry day.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

• CaffiNation Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
  
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Quick Hits

• Google Mowing with Goats
• Decorative soaps for the geek in all of us
• Even Wolverine needed some technical augmentation, this just seems overboard
• Wolverine Claw Toys, sold separately? And not even sharp?
• Apple, Twitter? Apple, EA Games? I hope Neither

Geek Cruft:

• Styrofoam as fuel?
• 3d Printing and the Aloha State
• Amphora is 473 years old
• Office Sync brings Google Docs and MS Office in line
• If Dick Tracey hated fish, Wristwatch finds your prey
• Tape so tough you can use it as a fan belt
• DIY Turntable

Caffeinated Bits

• Sterile cutting board with the power of light
• Bottle Cheese Plate, My dad makes these
• Beer Shampoo? Frat guys never grow up
• Nacho Wallet? Bad joke, incorrect food, funny non the less
• Bar B Que’s best friend
• Nows the time for Noodle Luge
• Nuke testing helps identify fake whiskey
• Coffee and twitter

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Amphora, apple, beer, cheese plate, Coffee, ea games, Goats, Google, Microsoft, Noodles, turntables, twitter, wolverine

Start Mooing!

The world of micro transactions steps a little further into view today. The video game industry has decided that this is not only a lucrative way to take more money away from people, but they can sell it as a value added feature as well. I can’t stand the idea that after I pay hard earned coin for a game that I need to fork over more money for content that is either already on the disk or should have been. Here is what we have.

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Tags: battlefield bad company, ea games, ea sports, microtransaction, value