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How do you Catch a rabbit?

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!
From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast
“High Octane Caffeine Culture & Technology News”
Phone 215-240-1319 | Twitter @caffination | Facebook Fan Page
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What is on the docket for this evening? We are all hit with Lunch truck evny, learning to chew bubblegum all over again, and of course we hit some fantastic coffee news. but beyond all those things we are getting ready to run an awesome contest for a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever! Make sure you listen in to find out how to enter! You’ll win the game and be in on the early fun!

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What is on the docket for this evening? We are all hit with Lunch truck evny, learning to chew bubblegum all over again, and of course we hit some fantastic coffee news. but beyond all those things we are getting ready to run an awesome contest for a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever! Make sure you listen in to find out how to enter! You’ll win the game and be in on the early fun!

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What is on tap for tonight? Well we have Pacman fever, a little USB Joy and some wonderful Coffee News. We dive deep into the tin foil hat world of Area 51, and explore the wonders of Lord of the Rings and Star Trek. . Also a bit of a personal experience with Tea, and the tribulations of pricing. Learning Japanese made easy and fun and a little Macyver to sweeten the pot.

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Well on today’s show we pick at guitars, stomp some curbs and take some names. We have a little update on Playstation Online, and surprisingly it might actually be online. We also look down the rabbit hole of Coffee vs Tea! Between Ms Manners, Lego costumes and a metric ton of Food News this is going to be one full show!

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Well on today’s show we poke a bear, talk some gaming and walk a thin line. All in all its a normal show with extraordinary content. We have DIY content at its best and some rather heavy duty awesome geek culture being thrown about. hopefully you will enjoy!

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An over abundance of Star Wars related Content, Tasty and Geeky side of the force hard moving from Cookies to Cases, Toys to Toast the fun just doesn’t stop. We have Zombie Safe Houses, Real Life Zombie brain cells, and of course the origen of the zombies. the SMURFS!

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What to Expect for today’s show. Today we have a quick rundown of the things that popped up this past week. A good deal of food related stuff came out in association with Easter, we had one passover story but mysteriously the story was taken down before our article was written. We hit up Peeps, Easter, Robots, PSn, and venture into the world disgusting food ideas

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So we’ll see how long tonight’s show ends up being

I get sick every spring. this time it just took a bit longer to get here, and quite honestly I don’t know where it came from. I’m loosing my voice and if there is one thing I like it’s talking! So I’ll attempt to do the show solo tonight, Batman Returns. Because when I hear my own voice inside my head I sound like Batman when I’m loosing my voice, it probably isn’t true for the rest of you listening, but hey let a man dream.

What to Expect for today’s show? Well I have a great rundown of some of the fun things and stories we’ve talked about this past week. You want a primer for the show? Start checking CaffiNation.com daily to see new content appear, almost as if by magic. be the show is new takes on the content, opinion and bad jokes… how can you pass that up? For tonight we have coffee warming gadgets of the future, pacman’s never-ending  journey, and a bunch of fun concept pieces

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Geek Cruft

• Does the awesome button come with healing powers?
• Modern Art, Banksy style
• Touchscreen Guitar? is the world ready to lose feeling in music?
• Tolkien Geeks cry out as the lidless eye watches
• Behold the Legend of the Fuzz!
• Ben Heck uses his powers for good
• High Score? Space invaders tells the tale of the tape
• Just fun Art Lovecraft Style
• Than Upset Avian?
• Flip the script
• Pacman’s World

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Aww shucks for Me? Bacon Roses FTW
• Hate cold coffee? there may be hope
• Handsome coffee?
• Coffee or Tea?

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated!
From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast
“High Octane Caffeine Culture & Technology News”
Phone 215-240-1319 | Twitter @caffination | Facebook Fan Page
Subscribe via | RSS | iTunes | Zune
The CaffiNation is a Puzzle Piece Production

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Blocks are for writers, buildings, and parties

I have writers block, not the little kind were you can think of a special fun word for the correct shade of orange but the honest to goodness stare at a blank page and wonder where all the win went. I had so many ideas, and now i swear i hear an echo. but thank goodness for the kindness of friends and contributors. Steve and Tara filled in some great stories for this week when the words were not only not flowing but I think they migrated south. All that aside we have a metric ton of fun and interesting things to talk about today, and some more interesting stuff in the pipeline.

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What to Expect for today’s show.

Geek Cruft

• Grammy Awards for video game music
• Tetris Blocks in glass
• Video Game Museum, concept looking for funding
• HP Lovecraft makes Aquaman cool
• District 9
• ABC superheroes I can figure most of them out, can you?
• Nes in an NES Cart, A Game system on a game, recursive fun
• No politics, just design, Mitt Romney’s Logo Looks like Aquafresh Sponsored a Candidate named omney, poor design
• Dali Inspired Design

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Duff Does it up, Cakes for two from Charm City Cakes, Geek Designs included
• The Coffee pot died today
• Lego Water Bottles
• OCD Cutting Board
• Via Dan Combat Coffee, watch for insurgents and language
• Weird coffee news
• Wine Bottle Screws
• Who likes Dr Pepper… like a whole bunch? via MAS

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated! From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast “High Octane Caffeine Culture & Technology News” Phone 215-240-1319 | Twitter @caffination | Facebook Fan Page Subscribe via | RSS | iTunes | Zune The CaffiNation is a Puzzle Piece Production

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Bringing the funk, with a side order of noise!

Towels from Heaven, laughs from the heart

Thanks to everyone who has been stopping by and contributing to the show. We are working to make it easier to submit your story ideas, found links and other awesome bits to the show. Anything else you think we need to work on? What to Expect for today’s show. Lots of art and nostalgia, some nostalgic art, and some crazy and zany jokes. I love April fools day unfortunately gathering stuff for a news site such as this becomes treacherous AFTER the holiday has run its course.

Geek Cruft

• You’re all very Lucky! If this had gotten a lot of views I would have continued
• I got gotten! RE-35 doesn’t exist
• How to print better pictures
• April Fools roundup
• FEAR, the concept we discussed in the last show stayed with me, and spawned a doodle
• Gunbrella, Not a Joke
• Hard Times Art Hour!
  • Voltron Dans Les Coquelicots by Hillary White
  • Simon C Page: Hero and Villain
  • Vincent Kohler | BillonDe-construct your next construction job, count the trees
  • Dissertation on hearts, takes art to heart
• Nostalgia
  • All the beauty of the old handheld games, Nostalgia Wins
  • Voltron is actually coming back to TV: Defender of the Universe indeed!
  • So is Thundercats!
  • Steampunk is nostalgia for things that didn’t happen, be faux nostalgic for the whole year
• Killing Zombies? Need to do it from a distance? Machete Gun
• Help save Steve! Send in your Zombie tips
• Parkour in dreamland
• Kickstarter is awesome, from Desktop Trebuchettes to Coffee STUFF

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Romulan Ale, or Energy Drink Fail?
• Coffee Joulies, nifty Idea!
• More Power? Salt and pepper to the rescue
• Next week more Coffee, including the tragedy of the fallen coffee pot
• New site to read! Dear Coffee, I Love you
• Palm Civet or Baby Ruth factory Kopi Luwak, from Soup to Nuts

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated! From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast “High Octane Caffeine Culture & Technology News” Phone 215-240-1319 | Twitter @caffination | Facebook Fan Page Subscribe via | RSS | iTunes | Zune The CaffiNation is a Puzzle Piece Production

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Playing it fast and loose with technology and coffee news

Every once in a while I get a bit down in the dumps about the site, or about the feedback. It didn’t last long this time. I had a friend start asking me about his website and how to get it up and running a half hour later when i realized I’d been talking that long I sort of figured out I know a heck fo a lot more than i give myself credit for. And most of it has been because the fine readers and listeners at The CaffiNation have allowed me to play around with minor details of the show and the site without too many fires and riots. It’s been a great ride.

Back on point and a bit disjointed. There are plenty of off the wall crazy stories to tell for this week, so the challenge is going to be keeping the spice flowing. Gotta hit each target and move on. Content from everybody mixing to create one lovely brew delivered direct to you.

Geek Cruft

• Good watch Mitch Joel on The False Social Web. via Lynette
• Treyarch wants you!
• Portal, Kill them With Science
• An interesting take on Organ Donor awareness
• A bit off schedule but El Dia De AWESOME
• Poor little Goomba, kinda like Monster Mario, but not yet
• Wonder Woman’s New Look. Another Concept. a bit out of proportion
• Historically Hardcore, currently awesome
• Metroid, Zelda and Beyond
• Zelda in Real Life?
• Avengers Cross-stitch!
• Sunken Vader
• Support Password, and rant
• Emulators, in your browser
• Geek out with a little Sendak and Tolkien? What could have been

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Wabbit Season… Duck Season
• Mario Cake and geeks love to eat
• Light Side and Dark Side of the Force
• Cold brewed Bottled Coffee from Stumptown
• How does weather affect your coffee? From Tara

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated!
From the Chief Bean @ The CaffiNation Podcast
“High Octane Caffeine Culture & Technology News”
Phone 215-240-1319 | Twitter @caffination | Facebook Fan Page
Subscribe via | RSS | iTunes | Zune
The CaffiNation is a Puzzle Piece Production

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Tonight’s show is going to be fun. We hit on legos, coffee, Google TV, Keurig, bacteria, fossils and steampunk.

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Janus, the Roman god most commonly found on coinage has the unique ability among that pantheon of looking both backwards and forwards. Probably the same sentiment expressed by the common idiom, “You have to know where you’ve been to know where you’re going.” It is in his honor that we offer up this episode to you. Janus is also the root word for January, see where this is headed? Of course you do! Each one of you is as smart and beautiful as they come, mainly because you listen to this show.

This show will turn 5 years old on January 9th 2011. I’ve been blogging a good deal longer than that in one form or another. The site and the idea were going to be a webcomic, but I can’t draw, and I’m not really all that funny… So I decided my two passions of geekery and coffee needed a home and the CaffiNation was born. I even delayed doing the first show a couple of months until I had a good intro music. Tonight’s show is going to look back at this past year and pull some of my favorite pieces out. While at the same time giving you a glimpse into what we are thinking for the future.

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Totally missed out on being able to do the show up proper last night. To read more excuses try elsewhere. we only stock awesome things here!. But beyond that this is a great time of year

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