The CaffiNation Podcast

 

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Today’s Show: Bears, Robots, Music, comics, brolly, caffeine, and Starbucks

The short week is almost over. So now is the time to fill up on news before everyone shuts off their machines and unplugs for the BBQ laden weekend. Which you should. We are Full to the brim of caffeinated content and techy goodness

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On Today’s Show: Green, Brown, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Jetpacks, Power, Star Wars, Caffeine

Real News Bytes

• How can Brown go Green?
• Kids can be a drag
• Thinking beyond yourself: Help the elderly
• Don’t Panic!: Real World Hitchikers Guide

Tech Cruft

• Micro Projector for Cell Phone Movies
• Rocketeer or Jetpack? you decide
• A Tribute, Chaos Theory and Art almost cyberpunk
• Power tree
• Crossover: R2D2 Ice Bucket and Carbonite cubes
• Indoor Herb Garden. Apartment living made fragrant
• Halo Costumes done right
• You know your famous when you get a bug named after you

Caffeine & Food

• Stay up, Stay Safe, Stay Caffeinated
• Crossing the line? Urban Free Range Meat.
  • I have a small history with furry urban beasts
• Starbuck’s new energy look
• Caffeine in Doughnuts
• Caffeine in Milk

Music:

• Nine Inch Nails: 1,000,000

Contact Me:

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

I have a very well documented history of critique for Starbucks. From their predatory expansion to their burnt swill and snarky service people. But this won’t be one of those pieces, instead we aim for constructive criticism. Today 12 EDT, and 9PDT Starbucks will be holding a Taste in of their new flavor Pike Place Roast. Meh long lines, half hour of free taste of a new blend. This blend is supposed to be a response to people who say that Starbucks coffee is burnt. It is a lighter roast supposed to be easier on our delicate untrained coffee drinking pallets.

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Today Tuesday 2/26/2008 Starbucks will be closing their stores from 5:30 PM - 8:30 pm. During that time Dunkin Donuts will be offering small coffee, latte and iced coffee for a measly .99 cents. So that no coffee lover goes without. They even have a new commercial aimed directly at starbucks.

Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, three corporate heavyweights have been engaging in a marketing slug fest for the past year. At times it seems like everyone is against Starbucks, and you’d be right. In business you don’t aim to beat number 2, you aim to topple number 1. And there is no bigger One in coffee than Starbucks. (more…)

 

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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

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
• 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

Want to Contact Me?

• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype Me thecaffination :: Full Contact Details

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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On Today’s Show: Robot Tanks, Robot Hands, Caves, Sesame Street, Starbucks, & Bruce Lee

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• Dust Rhinos: Whisky in The Jar

Tech

• Allegory or Not, Learning in a Cave?
• The iPod of Books? Or expensive paperweight
• Long term Data retention, 2 years at Sea
• MC Escher, Mechanic Interpretation.
• This is Crap. Give cookie his cookies back. Sesame Street early years adult only
  • Full Article, we were all raised very poorly?
• Best RC Car ever, a Tank
• Bling or Function? 12k for a spiffy lighter than air Bike
• Chewy on your back
• For Jimmy* Space Battles on your ceiling aren’t cheap
• Project Anywhere. I need this in work
• And now for Bruce Lee

Caffeine

• Slow down & Backlash? Starbucks might just stumble
  • BTW if you don’t pull 80G’s Your not in their plans…
• Killer Bean? Coffee in Film
• Up soon Cooking with Coffee

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Want to Contact Me?

• Grand Central: 215-240-1319
• Email: CaffiNation@gmail.com
• Skype ID thecaffination
• Full Contact Details