The CaffiNation Podcast

 

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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
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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Another Earth Day rolls around on the calendar to find that being green is getting easier. Adoption of CFL’s as alternatives to Edisonian Incandescents are taking off. Al Gore has throw down with a new presentation that is getting some notice. And very worth your time to watch. I’ve talked about it before but sometimes things are more than buzzwords. Green carries so much more weight than just its pigment nowadays, and its making it easier and cheaper to do things the right way. Recycling is just the start we need to move beyond blue buckets at the curb and into the houses themselves.

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Money is green, and frankly so is everything else lately. But money is also king, if it costs too much then green is bad, and just won’t work. If it being green causes people with lots of money to loose some of it or make less of it then green is still bad and will get crushed. However green, lately, is saving consumers lots of Money. And the court of public opinion has decreed that green is good. So like a casino giving out a gambling hotline number, Big business wants you to be green, through clenched teeth.

In case you hadn’t guessed Green is the new buzzword for everything from clothing to furniture of late. Green living, green cars, green tech. But what does it mean? Does it mean on one hand reducing conspicuous consumption of goods and tech leaving behind a wakes of debris in your path? Does it mean reducing the oft mentioned footprint that each one of us has? Or is it something about recycle buckets, carbon, and hippies? Quite frankly it could be all of them but don’t let buzzwords and stereotypes lead you to believe that this will all wash over, and that none of it really means anything.

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On Today’s Show: Mugs, Tesla Coils, Manholes, Eyelashes, Plants and the Ozone

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Notes:

• Saturday the 8th Live! At Techpodcast Round Table

Tech

• Cool Tesla Coil Pattern, colors are aftermarket
• Feedback: Phone Update Via listener comments
• We don’t do this, But an Update on a Review Crisis
• Baking soda could save your skin
  
• Clean air and Art all-in-one
• Resistance to time is now measurable. Ohm’s Law Clock
• All in marketing, but a great Idea. Mom Spit
• Bored? Call a meeting
• Urban functional art
• re gifting in a whole new way
• Go big or go Home, Eyelashes

Caffeine & Food

• On or Off Coffee Mug.
  • Should have been Speak or Shhhh
• Coffee or Tea Anywhere now

Season of Giving

• Penny-Arcade Child’s Play
• Coffee Kids - Via Coffee Geek

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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