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So I sit here looking for a bit more energy this being the first week back to work and a heavy workload to boot. I honestly should be asleep planning lab implementation strategies or something but I wanted to bring this episode to you fine listeners out there.

We are hitting the coffee trail hard this week with a couple neat product reviews and better videos coming down the pike. Tonight’s show is laden with LEGO, no matter how you pluralize it. We’re heavy with Steampunk and Caffeinated beyond reason. So hopefully you’ll enjoy our effort to entertain and enlighten, educate and amuse.

A Huge thank you to Norbert Davis of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast, he provided us with a metric ton of lego stories today. make sure you stop on by his show listen to his dulcet tones and marvel at the gadgety goodies he talks about. Check out his Google Sketchup rundown.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
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Geek Cruft

• * LEGO Twitter Fail Whale
• Steampunk Lego Art meets Design
• Lego: Halo figures and vehicles
• Lego Flusher, because who really wants to see that
• Lego blocks Spinal Tap video
• Home Burglar Returns To Taunt Couple Via Facebook?
• Steampunk goodies from Instructables
• Ten things you don’t know about the Earth
  • When I say centrifugal, I mean centrifugal!
• Putpockets a new spin
• Gorillatorch flashlight crawls out from under a rock
• New Orleans Arcology Habitat or NOAH
  • Roll 1 D4 for saving throw vs hurricane. NOAH ‘Ark’
• World’s most gigantic pump to protect New Orleans in 2011
• How many angles on the head of a Pin?
  • Who knows but you can fit one Homer and a Bart

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Chemex coffee brewing guide, very entertaining video
• Bobby Flay and Philly Pizza, quick how to for thin crusty goodness
• Yet Another convert to home brewing, save yourselves some cash
• Caffeine Cuts Male Mating Success… In Fruit Flies
• Are you ready for the Scrapple Taco, explanation might be in order for the Non-Philadelphians

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: arcology, Astronomy, caffeine, chemex, Coffee, earth, fail whale, flashlight, Halo, home brewing, Lego, Legos, new orleans, Pizza, putpockets, Steampunk

If you recently read my article on the Micro Blogging Social Networks, or SocNets, and you should have by now. You may know that twitter has a mascot, but not the good kind of mascot this mascot only comes out of the dungeon to inflict pain on people. Known by his filename as whale.png, the Fail Whale is the smirking an apparently euphoric error screen which graces twitter when the servers are up, the wheels are spinning, but the hamsters are dead. The used to have a screen with a one handed robot, but apparently that was to blatant, and obvious of an error message. They wanted us to know that tiny birds can lift a whale, and he loves it.

No one ever asks why the Whale is happy? Do they only let him out when the servers die? Are the birds attempting to free willy? What do the birds get out of all of this? No one knows. But the Failwhale has two cousins which we can only hope we never see…

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Tags: beached whale, Caffination, dire whale, fail whale, fail whale story, tiwtter