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This week we have a a goodly bit of content to send your direction. The Numbers are in and we have Duke Nukem Liftoff The Winner is announced. But Fret not if you didn’t win you can still stick around for some of the other giveaways we will have in the coming months! We are looking into a couple different

What is on tap tonight? We have a decent serving of Steampunk, Zelda and a dash of humor. Not too much mind you. Wouldn’t want to ruin the drapes. We also hit up some fantastic comic news, a bit of lego fauxery and a wonderful Google Music Review

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Geek Cruft

• Geeky This Week
• Congrats to our Duke Winner!
• DC Relaunch!
• Zelda Williams? Why did I not know this? Very Cool Ad
• Chinese Iron Man Mark I suit
• Google Music, Good or Great?
• Own a Steampunk Laptop
• Hoverbike! I want one
• I love this idea Lego Style Planters out of Cinderblocks, gives me an idea
• Link Amigurumi
• Pacman Frames
• Arcade Button light switches… oh yes this will be done
• Silly Scientists, don’t you watch movies? This can’t end well
• The House that Cruft built
• Google Live Streamed an Eclipse… pretty cool

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Edible Flowers? Or Edible Candy Flowers
• Edible but not palatable. Ghost peppers!
• Musical Wine glasses made easy
• News Brews, takes news and makes a tasty Treat
• Caffeinated Leggings? No, please stop

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated!
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A week ago, Sony shut down the PlayStation Network, stating that it was for maintenance, and that it would only last no more than two days. Finally the truth came out…PSN was hacked, and personal information was compromised. Although, Sony is still unsure whether or not the credit card information of all the users was jeopardized.

In a recent post on Playstaion’s blog site, Patrick Seybold, who is Sr. Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media, released a statement reassuring users that the company is working around the clock to resolve the issues. He goes on to elaborate on the situation, what they are doing to fix the security problems, and also informs you on what to do to prevent further damage to your information.

Sony suspected that Anonymous, a group well-known for their hacking ability, was at fault. However, a statement was released by the group saying, ”While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and does not take responsibility for whatever has happened.”

With PlayStation Network being shut down, Microsoft could get a boost in sales. Despite the fact that PSN has been running for over 4 years, Xbox Live has been running for almost 9 years, never having any type of security breach. And although you can never anticipate the situation that Sony is in right now, it sure is making Microsoft look really good.

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Earlier this month, Dog Wars, an app for the Android phone, was released that with dog fighting. Kage Games LLC, developed a game that let’s you train a pitbull to compete in a dog fight. This concept was just asking for some controversy.

It wasn’t long before an outcry for the game to be pulled began. Organizations like PETA and Humane Society of the US were some of the many voices asking for the game to be taken down. What is scary and shocking, is that the game had more than 80,000 downloads. Many feel it promoted the idea of dog fighting in reality. It wasn’t long ago that this topic was a big issue. Although it was going on for years, it hit mainstream news when NFL quarterback Michael Vick was convicted of animal cruelty dealing with dog fighting.

Vick, who served prison time for dog fighting, released a statement about the app; ”I’ve come to learn the hard way that dogfighting is a dead-end street. Now, I am on the right side of this issue, and I think it’s important to send the smart message to kids, and not glorify this form of animal cruelty, even in an Android app.”

The game was finally pulled from the Google app store late Tuesday night. However, the damage has already been done. A question that is boggling my mind now is, when do gaming concepts take it too far? I know it is just a game, but today’s generation takes the gaming world more seriously than we did 10 years ago.

Tags: dog, fighting, Humane Society of th US, Kage Games, Michael Vick, News, PETA, pitbull, Video Games

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Espresso Tech!

BP Gulf Oil Spill Continues to run, Methods are getting desperate,
Privacy, Facebook loves you and reads your diary
Google Wifi Kerfuffle. Company Slogan or no, its bothersome

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We discuss a good range of topics from Cupcake and beer cannons, to coffee personalities, Puns, Religion, Video and some show news. All in all a tight knit ball of information i hope to unravel into your ears.

Tags: apple, beer, cannon, Coffee, cupcake, News, personality, puns, religion, ROASTe, Tea, tech, video

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Today’s show has some love for beer, tea, coffee, college, specifics, and OS wars. How Much fun can we cram into one show. Why not stop by and see.

Tags: 911, beer, Coffee, college, distraction, geek shame, Lasers, Legos, monopoly, News, Opinion, star trek cologne, typing

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Today’s Show: Software, Reviews, News, Tips, Helpful utilities for productivity

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Slightly different format tonight. A bit of a free flowing episode with a bit of news and then a ton of software to help you be more productive in your use of a computer.  This isn’t going to be the norm for episodes from here on out but every once in a while it helps to share some of the tools that I use on a daily basis.

• Back Channel Links Tumblr Blog Grinds
• The Everything Feed: Friendfeed
• The RSS Feed for this Podcast

Tech Cruft

• Time Eater Clock
• Not even my Songs are safe from consumerism anymore
• SMS isn’t a good idea for Emergency?
• Classrooms and New Technology
• Stats: CaffiNation reviews Woopra/ Overview

Software: Free and Better than Free

• Firefox: Why are you not using this yet?
  • Foxmarks: Bookmark synchronization plugin
    
  • FireFTP: Lightweight FTP application which lives in your browser
    
• Evernote: Note taking and reference software. Once you start to use it you can easily see how it can be of great use in the future
  
• Picasa: Photo editing and album management software
• VLC: Media File Player
  
• Google Services: Get an account with google, even if you don’t use it for email. Its worth it just to have for the other programs they run.
• NVU: Lightwieght HTML and Web site editor
  
• Irfanview: Any image anywhere this program can open. Make sure to get both the program and the plugin pack
  
• OpenOffice: Office and productivity application
  
• Audacity:Audio editing utility

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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

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On Today’s Show: CES, TPN, News, Apple, Macworld, Halo, Speed Racer, Espresso, Gizmodogate

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2

Tech Cruft

• Cthulhu Does Politics
• Much Ado about Giz
• 8 trends in CES. With awesome Graphic
• This is serious, be thankful for your freedom
• Lighten the Mood and Geek Out in Detroit, Mach 5 Style
• Lamp Straight out of Halo, very organic style
• SimCity, now called Micropolis, and open source!
• Office Multitool
  
• Painless Meds
• Do you Hate productivity? 3D Tetris…

Caffeine & Food

• Stupid LOtD: What type of coffee are you
• Handpresso? This looks sweet
• In the still of the Night, a Coffee drinker’s horror tale

Music Interludes: PMN

• Jake Lear: Ruth’s Boogie
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On Today’s Show: CES, TPN, News, Starbucks, coffee, McDonalds, Bill Gates, Apple, Quad Core, CompUSA

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General Info

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• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2
• My take on these 2 years
• where we’ve been where we are going from here on out. A Rundown of the Caffination history

Tech Cruft

• Schools are now the police for the young?
• CompUSA just won’t Die
• Talked about on TPN CES Coverage: Alienware Curved display
• The Human side of Bill Gates
• Apple Releases QuadCore Severs. Quad Core Explained
• You in a video Game. Big Stage
• 8 Celebs you didn’t know were Geeks
• A site for reflections, and inspiration when designing

Caffeine & Food

• Perfect Microwave
• Old news, but a new spin
• McD’s Coffee Revolution
• Former Starbucks Employee give the taste test a try
• How will they respond?

Music Interludes: PMN

• Jonathan Coulton: My Monkey
  • His Site
• Supersuckers: The Fight Song
  • Their Site

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On Today’s Show: CES, TPN, News, Voicemail, Airlines, Guinness, fish, Beer Pong

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
  • If you’ve got the Ink thanks for the help getting the videos working correctly
• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2
• Voicemail now Locked in

Tech Cruft

• Historic. Bill Gates CES Final Keynote Play by Play
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  • Direct Comparison of Presentation Styles Steve V Bill
• PSP & Skype
• Testing Missle Defense with Commercial Airlines
• Queen Loves the Wii, and who wouldn’t
• Home Theater System, Video Game Consoles Included
• Guinness BoWR for video games
• Pipeline Fish tank.

Caffeine & Food

• Your Gonna need some coffee to keep up with all this stuff
  • Grinding?
• World Championship of Beer Pong? You need ID to get ping pong balls around here
• Everyone needs more money even Starbucks

Want to Contact Me?

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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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