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On Today’s Show: steampunk, wordpress, Metallica, RvB, Utensils, Bikes

• Best wishes to John And Blanca
• Crazy week in review
• Wordpress Tweaking Very short SEO Overview
• Lance Armstrong is Bugging me

Real News Bytes

• Time to buy The White Album again. Holographic Storage debuts
• RvB Explains Gadgets and obsolesce.
• Metallica smells money crawls from under a rock

Tech Cruft

• R2D2 Goes Steampunk, and awesome
• MonoWheel, Transport. Bike engineering hasn’t changed much
• This is a blatant waste of money, squeeze your own tube
  
• What’s inside might scare you. The Dust from your machines hurts their performance
• Not quite there yet but off the grind with a USB crank charger
• Awesome value for the coin, Spin me right round USB Hub

Caffeine & Food

• Off the grid week at Dvice caps with a tasty mallow and a snarky comment session
• Who needs drawers? Utensil Darts
• Star Trek Bottle Opener. Bold go joke goes here
• Coffee Marinade? I’ll try this one shortly.

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• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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Geeks are by nature curious. And besides killing the cat curiosity also leads to carpentry, dissections and general mayhem. But with mayhem also comes a bevy of awesome and insightful articles all falling in some way under Geek crafts.

From Papercraft, to steampunk to rail guns we have you covered with this short little news run down.

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We have had so many articles of late on Steampunk, and the design elements that make a good Steampunk piece. So I figured I’d take a step further back into my life and showcase another design aesthetic / culture, cyberpunk. Back in the mid 90’s I was introduced to a certain sub-genre of science fiction now know as Cyberpunk, through one of the forerunners of the genre William Gibson’s Nueromancer. Take the essence of punk music and the futureistic world of Issac Asimov and when you meld them together you get a bright and shining future of technolust with society degrading around it. A despair and a wonder all wrapped up in the same story.  Who is William Gibson? He invented the term Cyberspace, spawned a sub genre of fiction and started to build the framework for the cyberpunk aesthetic. He is also probably one of my favorite authors. (more…)

Here again is a list of stories which just couldn’t fit into tonights festivities. But before we get to the list urge you to take a look at some of the stories we have covered over the past week.

1. Form over Function Friday : New Wallpaper Inspired by some great podsafe music
2. We can rebuild him… SteamPunk art : Tasteful art in a macabre light
3. Coffee Wars : A Low down on what shot have been fired and my take on Starbucks
4. Digital Tatoos : A Novel concept of under the skin connectivity laced ink

DMTC (more…)

It takes a really strange article or news item to make me sit up in my chair and take notice. Now when two of them cross my desk its time to draft a missive to the internet. And thats what your reading.

It seems these days like there is no shortage of art, and artists willing to not only push the envelope but rend it limb from limb. The crazy Steampunk designs have filled my imagination, and frankly provided excellent fodder for the podcast. But from time to time we see tech that goes beyond spiffy, that reaches past neat, to just plain weird. (more…)

 

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On Today’s Show: Caffeine, Sand, Mapping, Steampunk, Energy Drinks, twitter

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April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day. Consider it your Civic duty. Teach a man to Tech!

Real News Bytes

• Security can only go so far
• Tools from the geeks, Hardcore Security
  • Awesome Secuirty Website: Security Wizardry
• Twitter on Campus, new media in education

Tech Cruft

• Sandy Fun
• Kill them greenly
• All they need is a clock, and this steampunk would rock
• I have a weakness for Maps
• This is one of the most awesome web maps you will ever see
• The Original Internet Mapping Project

Caffeine & Food

• Submit your Mug! Get Famous
• Energy Drinks aren’t done yet. Why?
• I’ve had its Ilk, My thoughts
• A Caffeine guide, optimally caffeinated
• Starbucks bean there
• Coffee Calendar How to, You have to see these images

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• Phone Me: 215-240-1319 :: Email Me @ CaffiNation@gmail.com
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