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Cornucopia of Awesome, A bundle of geeky cruft, and a long winded podcaster

I’m sitting here hoping that it stays this way but at this point I’m the last man standing in the house health wars. Both the wife and the boy are under the weather, but the boy is probably directly related to the sleep he is or isn’t getting. Had just enough energy to put the finishing touches on the lair. only a couple more photo’s to print and hang and we’re good to go. Its been a long road.

In the world of technology we’re fast approaching Cyber Monday, the day we are told a ton of online shopping occurs. While i detest the inflated holiday rush to spend, i’d much rather support a day where no one gets crushed under the weight of a doorbuster sale.

Today’s show has a hodgepodge of crazy news but a strong retro vibe is definitely rocking the internet lately. We’re frequently referencing much simpler times, the economy is forcing our hand, and is globalization of data, and content.

The news piled up something fierce this past long weekend and since i spent most of it away with family and friends i have no clue what i missed. So find something awesome send it in!

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Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff now with more fluff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• Got our order in

Geek Cruft:

• Child’s Play Charity kicking off the season
• i Hate 3d Movies
• CaffiNation now has a mobile version, mobile sites are now a must
• Superman, and logo love. My new favorite read
• Swype text entering?
• Kindle gets an update
• Math class. I Choose YOU. had to yoink the title
• Garden gnomes or jawa.
• Twitter trying to hose friendfeed, who owns the content
• Duckhunt Wall art. a must for any lair
• Mario and Queen… a Duet to “Don’t stop me now” almost awesome
• Never ending record, infinite loop 10 goto awesome
• Crazy Concept record player
• Evolution of Storage enbiggen the image here
• LEGO Click – Brick light
• Underground heat from data center
• Geek video game expressionist art
• road rage

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Geek Cooking made fun
• Which Star? War or Bucks?
• Spice rack delux
• Everything but the coffee, sounds like an interesting book.

Want to contribute?

Feel free to send in any recipes, reviews or like minded articles and I’ll gladly post it with a link back to your lair!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: 3D movies, 80's, childs play charity, childsplaycharity, duckhunt, geek cooking, infographics, ipod, jawa, Kindle, lp, marshal mcluhan, Records, Retro, spice rack, Star Wars, superman, swype

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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog

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Tonight we’re not running behind schedule so much as we’re procrastinating splendidly. I’ve been putting off doing the show tonight for a ton of different reasons. but either way we’re trying something new. Rather than releasing the show as soon as its done I’ll be posting it the next day at 12:30, Eastern. So from now on Monday and Thursday lunch hour will debut the next version of the Caffination.

Things to look forward to? Well this week i have two neat reviews coming out on for a product and another for a place. I’ll also be posting a recipe for my Veggie chili so you can join in on the fun at home. So many more things to talk about so why don’t you listen in.

Today we’ll be discussing Legos, Robots, iPods, Bananas, and Copyright. Anythings fair game in this episode.

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

News in brief

• File Sharers pay it forward and backward
• Yet crazy bad patent and trademark law still stick
• RiP! was fantastic give it a try
• DJ AM, passes, should he still be in the game

Geek Cruft

• Like Eve from Wall-E la Petite Prince loves him some plants
• Lego universe?
• Next gen business card? Or just silly, Poken
• MC Hammer and Zombies
• NES Cart used as an external hard drive, awesome stuff
• Brute force hacking of an iPod via robot assistance
• NYC to commission bike helmets that don’t look horrible
• Video Link: Google as a Roomate
• Video Link: Ze Frank’s TED Talk

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• As a Coffee Guy… this article has good and bad points… Consider the source
• Old Patents: Banana Ice Cream injector
• Massive Warhammer Cake
• Via @weeklyroast top 5 worst coffee for you
• Clean things with Coffee filters? Works great for eyeglasses and scanners
• I should try this for coffee, Around the League (NHL) in 30 beers

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: apple, copyleft, copyright, dj am, ipod, Lego, remix manifesto, robot, ze frank

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Back to the Grind, fresh and a little coarse

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Slowly working my way back into the swing of things, i started to collect a jumble of fun links and stories and I think we might have just blossomed into a full fledged show. So I decided to cobble together what I could and rock it out. I am still trying to work my way through the pile of email.

This episode gives a little background on the vacation we just returned from, pulls some fun bits of news out of the ether and rounds it all out with some caffeinated goodies.

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Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• TPN Weekly Number 17 Coffee Geekery
• Tech Podcast Weekly new each week

How I spent my Summer Vacation

• No Internet in the room, but the beach was wired
• Six Pixels of Awesome
• How to Succeed in Evil
• GeekNews Central
• Geek Radio Daily
• Upgrade Wordpress!

Geek Cruft

• iPod with a Camera?
• Zune HD
• Secure your laptop
• Taste the Colors, let the blind see
• Yoshi Chainmail? awesome concept, but lacks the armor
• Get your geek on NC-1701 style. Enterprise Record Player
• Wallace and Gromit Snack Timer

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• KISS Coffee House? Poor Coffee, you’re not buying coffee, but an experience
• Shadow Coasters
• Parasol Fruit Bowl
• How good is your booze
• Coffee Ditty, interesting. See if you can guess my favorite line

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: chainmail, Geek Radio Daily, Geeknews Central, how to succeed in evil, ipod, kiss, kiss coffeehouse, laptops, wallace and gromit, zune

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Today’s Show: Lego, Zune, iPod, Crazy, Walmart, Minfig, GI Joe, Guitar, Tesla Coils, Gadgets, Shopping, Christmas, Holidays

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Tonight’s show is a warming up edition. I’ve spent a good deal of the weekend so far outside in the cold weather. its definitely starting to feel like the season for once. Tonight’s tech and caffeine will hopefully bring a little warmth to your earlobes and warm your mind with delight. I talk a bit about the upcoming gift giving season throughout the show.  I have been doing quite a bit of work on the website and Haven’t gotten it the way i would like it just yet, I’m always looking for comments and suggestions about features you would like to see on the site and any wonky design problems you see on the page. We might be winding down our hosting agreement with the current provider and migrating over the holiday break, quicker servers and better admin interface, but that’s getting ahead of myself now isn’t it.

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• Working on the site design please let me know what you think

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Tags: Christmas, Crazy, gadgets, GI Joe, Guitar, Holidays, ipod, Lego, Minfig, Shopping, Tesla Coils, Walmart, zune

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On Today’s Show: UPS, Caffeine spray, grades, sugar, commodore 64, mice, and frozen ipods.

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Notes:

• What do Geeks Like? Find out at the Techpodcast Xmas Round Table

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

Two per show for the holidays

• Little Thom: Have a Merry Little Christmas
  • Direct to Artist Website
• Jim Goodrich: Deck the Halls
  • Direct to Artist Website

Caffeine & Food

• Caffeine Spray? Come on now
• Coffee adversely affects student’s grades
• But not from the empirical evidence, students think otherwise
• Stocking stuffers for the coffee geeks
• Spiced sugar? interesting

Tech Cruft

• Big Media, local connections, and a very emic perspective
• Now this deserves hazard pay
• Commodore 64, I miss thee
• UPS goes Around the world, but only to the right…
• Office warfare just went wireless
• w00t. l33t enough for Webster
• Frozen ipods, crackerjack for hockey!
• A watch with no respect. Titanic mistake
• Mice live in holes in your machine now
• Fish on your wall

Season of Giving

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

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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