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Today’s Show:  Bandwidth, Zombies, Telephony, Tech News, Web Design, Gardening, Coffee, Earth Day

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Its been a rough up and down type of week after a wonderful weekend. Thank you to everyone for your birthday wishes, and support. This past weekend I got to meet a twitter friend and discuss the organic nature of the service. I got to have plenty of Coffee and Creme Stout from a local brewery, and i got to spend plenty of time with friends and family. Being that the weekend was as Tech Free as it was, diving back into tech, writing, and podcasting this week has been quite fruitful indeed.

Tonight we’re going to dive back into the fun post apocalyptic world of Zombie killing, Enjoy some good coffee and discuss the finer points of tech communication and responses. So it should be a great episode, hopefully you’ll enjoy what we’re serving today.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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

Quick Hits

• Lord of the Awesome. Minis Tirth out of matchsticks
• What is a thinking machine, Do robots win electronic medals?
• Moleskine Enthusiasts. Win a lifetime supply
• Big Daddy via Lego
• Zombies!
  • Zombie Poetry? Thanks Norbert
  • Zombie Classics
    
  • Expensive Zombie Killing Weapons
  • Bleeding Kirby, gruesome cake
  • Do Zombies make good compost?

Geek Cruft:

• Ugobe & Pleo now Extinct, sad
• The anatomy of a new media story / application
• Geeks ahoy XKCD sets sail for printed works
• The cool kids are so over twitter… Why they are wrong
• Tiny Garden, Spring is here and I’m almost ready
• Sun Chips to release biodegradable bag
• 15 Checks to run down before launching a website, Hat Tip DCoT

Caffeinated Bits

• My Perfect Travel Mug
• Coffee Compost Answers
• From my Wife I got one of these People have laughed
• Fresh Content, resealed
• When is a recipe yours? Famous people arguing
• Spreadsheets now can burn your food
• Weird product tie in
• Mypressi, New take on portable espresso

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Bandwidth, Caffination, Coffee, Gardening, tech news, Telephony, web design, Zombies

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Today’s Show: Whales, NFL, Olympics, jetpack, tie-fighter, Comcast, running, pizza, coffee, Dunkin Donuts

Today’s Episode finds me a little hot under the collar about some topics floating out there, and add in a bit of musical theater to round out the title. I apologize in advance for bleeding ears or shatter speakers due to my musical stylings. But its still not stopping the show. Enjoy

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The Everything Feed: Friendfeed

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Tags: caffeine, Coffee, comcast, dunkin donuts, healthy, jetpack, NFL, Olympics, Pizza, running, tech, tech news, tie-fighter, Whales

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On Today’s Show: Wii, Exercise, Olympics, robots, decaf, ice cream

Gardening refreshes the mind, and bring you this episode

Real News Bytes

• Back to the Drawing Board with Form over Function Fridays
• Olympic issue, Cyborgs up next
• History of Exer-Gaming
• PC for Teens
• This deserves attention Plaxo bought by Comcast

Tech Cruft

• You sunk my powerstrip
• Console mod that freaks me out, Beware of the Croc
• High Tech: Robot Love
  • Batteries not included, but this bot is pretty cute
  • Vitruvian Man, robot style, to the rescue
  • Bots for Art, will paint for energon cubes
• Low Tech Dennis the Menace
• Cool Tech, Misting spray bottle

Caffeine & Food

• Portable Ice Cream Floats, Nostalgia on the go
• Nespresso Design contest winners announced
• Vaccuum Fresh Beans
• Enjoy your tea later, with steps on Natural Decaf Methodology

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Tags: Coffee, comcast, decaf, Exercise, ice cream, nespresso, nespresso design contest, Olympics, PC, plaxo, Robots, tech, tech news, Wii

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On Today’s Show: Cigarettes, Tea, Coffee, Robots, Bugs, Biodegradable things

• Apologies and a scare

Real News Bytes

• CaffiNation Greens it Up Earth Day Style
• 7 Eco friendly links for web services
• Part of a grand larger plan, but the power source is awesome
• Fire Hydrant means no parking with a twist
  • Open Wheeled Electric car looks old timey and fun

Tech Cruft

• Happy 18th Hubble
• Steampunk Victorian workstation
• Ashes to Ashes, biodegradable coffins
• Robot Buddies, Fire fighting bugs
• A real page turner, Book scanner unmasked
  • Just a little FYI, Laptops are fully searchable by Customs now… # Bonus Link

Caffeine & Food

• Do we need Caffeinated Chips?
• Tragedy and Red Bull. Its not a sports drink moderation is the key
• Edible Dishes! no more soap, Biodegradable, edible and washable!
• Cigarette Tea?
• Combined they form MicroToaster
• Burgeoning Beer Guide

PodSafe Music:

• The Beat Assassins:Going Crazy

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Tags: Biodegradable, Biodegradable things, bugs, Cigarettes, Coffee, Ecology, edible dishes, green tech, Robots, Tea, tech, tech news

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On Today’s Show: Coffee, Earth Day, Paypal, Voltron, Cheese, and Espresso

• Know-To suggestions?
• Hyadis

Real News Bytes

• Prepping for Earth Day. Free Digital newspaper. RSS anyone?
• Paypal says better safe than Pretty. No to Safari
• Information wants to be free. Darwin’s Footprint evolves
• The kids are alright. If they play video games

Tech Cruft

• Cheesy News: Man Proposes using video game
• Voltron is next. Be all that you can build. Army looking into Robot suites
• Or just put a big gun on a truck
• Fight fire with Fire. Jet powered, but useless firetruck
• Jet 1 Pelican 0. But A for Effort on the bird’s part
• Nothing is scared anymore. Cloudvertisment.
• Homer floats nice

Caffeine & Food

• Cheesy News: Cheese as art
• Wiimote, espresso. nuff said?
• Science once again proves moderation is the key

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Tags: caffeine culture, Cheese, Coffee, Earth Day, Espresso, Paypal, tech news, technology news, Voltron

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On Today’s Show: Upgrades, Hacking, Wind Up Cars, Caffeine and Superheroes

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Podsafe Music & Announcements

• Maria Daines: House of the Rising Sun
  • Folklore House of the rising sun

• WordPress 2.5 is now out, So when will I upgrade? Problem with free software
• The weekend begs of Spring, Trout Season Opened, Baseball Opening Day is tomorrow

Real News Bytes

• Lower than Low, Message board for epileptics attacked
• Day 1: Nothing. The error is obviously Human
• Day 2 Hacking the Gibson… Macbook Air Falls in under two minutes
• Day 3: Windows Vista SP1 laptop fall on final day. After some installs
• Ubuntu Stand alone at the end
• Comcast Degrading Signal? So thats why Lost has looked bad lately

Tech Cruft

• Drive a small car? Need a boost?
• Concept Art, PC on a Pallet. Needs a little tweaking
• Photoshop goes online, and free. But not without issues
• After the last show we talked about small and useful, this fits the bill in spades

Caffeine & Food

• Safe Driving, Caffeine tip
• Twitter is my new source for awesome links
• Snapple‘s New “Water”, Give me beer
• Starbucks buys Clover, mass data collection
• This is stupid. But I like the scale

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Tags: caffeine, Coffee, hacking, Mac, Podcast, Superheroes, tech news, ubuntu, Upgrades, Wind Up Cars, Windows, Wordpress

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On Today’s Show: Jury Duty, Podsafe Music Return, The French, ipods, crime, oil spills, pools, roomba, robots, apples

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Podsafe Music is Making a Return!

• 3 Blind Mice: I’m so Tired
• Band’s Site: www.catsaway.com

April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day.

The Force Field Podcast: Yet another fine Techpodcast Network Member

Real News Bytes

• The French don’t want your opinion
• Smart People: Think iPods are causing violent crime
• Trent Reznor: Breaks the Mold. And the Bank
• Drm Free isn’t free music
• Are we really saving Money? Daylight Savings time

Tech Cruft

• Robots Love:
  • Cleaning up your oil spills
  • Cleaning your pool
  • Cleaning out insurgents? All the better to facebook you in the desert Sir
• You want this workstation
• Missed the Other Articles? Chek out the Didn’t Make the Cut 213

Caffeine & Food

• An apple by any other name
• The color of coffee. Geek style
• Geography made fun, with coffee

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On Today’s Show: Twitter, Zen, Wind Power, Snow Plow, and Coffee Pills

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April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day. Teach a man to Tech!

Belated but still deserved. Totally Cool Tech passed 100 Episodes

Real News Bytes

• Automation. Botanicalls twitters you when it is low on lovin
• 3d Input device. Zen Sandbox.

Tech Cruft

• Robots doing brain surgery now? oh thats not good
• Lego my USB Drive
• Laptop for the Broadcaster
• Snow shoveling for the lazy, Mr Plow Lives
• Dangers of Wind power, mother nature can be a harsh mistress

Caffeine & Food

• Musical Interlude Courtesy of Elektro
• Mario Themed Party. With Drink Recipes
• Mug! Looks like Mr T should shill for this.
• What did you know Greener Gadgets DID have a coffee entrant
• Coffee in a pill? where’s the fun.
• Insert your own sliced bread joke for this
• I need a couple of these business cards to hand out

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Tags: Botanicalls, caffeine, Coffee, Coffee Pills, Human Powered, Snow Plow, tech news, twitter, Wind Power, Zen Sandbox

 Tattooing is a very old art form, the Ice Man Ötzi, had 57 tattoos and this Ice age rocker was alive 5300 years ago, give or take a year. I’m pretty sure Ötzi never could have imagined that all this time later tattooing could be on the cusp of a paradigm leap forward. How does Digital Tattooing sound to you? Well it might be an oversimplification. The entry into the Greener Gadgets Competition is actually a sub dermal implant, with a fuel cell that runs off your blood. It has bluetooth connectivity, and probably can txt message. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Today’s Show: Hot Dogs, Mugs, Caffeine, Bikes, Shelving, Soduku, astronomy

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Real News Bytes

• Lunar Eclipse for the Americas: Forecast for Philly, Cloudy. But it cleared anyway
  • Christopher Penn’s lovely Photos
• Former CNN producer fired over his blog
• Information wants to be Free
• Feeling Brave? Sick Bike Video

Tech Cruft

• Innovation in shelving
• I want to be 10 again. Splinter cell for kids
• Gravity Lamp, work for your light
• Community games on Xbox Live
• New Games coming out, Fun announcement
• Soduku, like you have never seen it before

Caffeine & Food

• Submit your Mug! Get Famous. Winding Down
• A rose by any other name, Caffeine by other names
• Hot dogs, cooked the fun way
• Robo Toaster: the next gen of toast

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On Today’s Show: Hosting, Interviews, Mobile, Spectrums, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, David Bowie, and Ben Heck

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General Info

• Philadelphia Social Media Breakfast with @Jeffpulver
• Steve Lubetkin of ProfessionalPodcasts.com Take on the Breakfast.
• Apologies, and explanation

Real News Bytes

• Chris Parandian From MobileDiner.com Explains Spectrum Auction
• Big News MicroHoo is a possibility, and Google objects

Tech Cruft

• Build you own Synth, Like David Bowie
• You Can’t Build this spiffy gadget
• Undersea Cable problem
• The Next Wiimote style innovation
• Ben Heck Throws some Modded Console goodness at us.
• This Massive printer frightens me

Caffeine & Food

• Learn from other’s Mistakes
• Submit your Mug! Get Famous
• The world loves me

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Tags: Ben Heck, caffeine, Coffee, David Bowie, Google, Hosting, Interviews, Microsoft, Mobile, Mugs, Spectrums, tech news, technology news, Yahoo

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Knowing… Is half the Battle

On Today’s Show: Coffee, Wii, Robots, Gears of War, Lancer, Chainsaws, Nerf

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General Info

• A Fine TechPodcast: A Couple of Admins
• Promotion by request: A Tweet in Time
• Testing the waters: Cooking Show?
• Coffee and a Sore Throat

Tech Cruft

• Wii Hacking Lord: Head Tracking, Jaw Dropping
• Return of LawnBott, and this time he’s miffed
• Sigh Worthy
  • Web Developers need to see this. IE8 Misbehaves
  • Much ado about a Flash Game
  • Apple slides one into a recent update: Video Mavens beware
• There is no potential for abuse here, only a promise with Wrong Number
• The Craft involved astounds me, Nerf Lancer
• FTU: Why didn’t I think of this. Ipod Earbud Speakers
• MPAA botches survey data from College age kids

Caffeine & Food

• Game or Eat? Hows about Both Pacman Style
• Don’t spill the salt
• Chicago Kids rock the coffee scene

Music Interludes: PMN

• Cage 9 : A Last Lullabye
  • www.cage9.com

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On Today’s Show: Apple, Macbook Air, Coffee, Contest, Drawing, Philadelphia City Hall, Power, Robots, Monkeys, Mind Control

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
• Episode 200 Giveaway Drawing!
  • Bad Picture of the Prize?
• Happy Anniversary Robbins Family!
• Tonight is no different
• 13Mtn: Sharing the Tech News Love

Tech Cruft

• Philadelphia Note: City Hall
• An Awesome Idea, Portable Power Strip
• Macbook Air is the new Cube? Well played Crave
• So if the Monkeys can control robots, with their mind, and the robots attack us…
• This plant… sings to me
• Airplanes smaller than a pen
• My wife wants one of these badly. Anyone need a reviewer?

Caffeine & Food

• Need more energy? Can’t take Caffeine?
• MLG-Pro Drug of Choice? This is stupid
• Pay it backwards. Coffee is Love.
• Have extra blood? Need coffee?
• Make your own pods?

Music Interludes: PMN

• Ryan Shupe and The Rubber Band: Dream Big
  • www.shupe.net
• The Whiskey River Band: Live and Learn
  • www.thewhiskeyriverband.com

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Tags: apple, caffeine, Caffination, Coffee, Contest, Drawing, Macbook Air, Mind Control, Monkeys, Philadelphia City Hall, Power, Robots, tech news

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On Today’s Show: Apple, Macworld, Macbook Air, MBA, Steve Jobs, Origami, Lego, Asteroids, Coffee

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2. Last Chance to listen in and Enter.
  • Bad Picture of the Prize?
  • To Enter Send me an
• Live Drawing on Sunday During CaffiNation Episode 200 taping.

Tech Cruft

• Mac Attack
  • Don’t have 90 Minutes? Try Mahalo’s 60 Second Stevenote
  • Weird Sound Bite, Via Engadge. Jobs says people don’t read any more
  • Macbook Air, Thoughts… Problems… Kool Aid?
  • Rentals Explained as an FYI
  • Mac threat, as the Mythical 10 percent approaches
• GPS Picture Gadget is awesome Idea
• What do you say about a 300$ Toaster?
• This is probably False but it makes a good story. Microsoft follows up on their tickets
• BeatBearing. Performance Synth
• Rubber band Gun Armageddon
• High School Kids find an Asteroid, Most kids just make a volcano
• Geek Fan Service
  • Yoda Origami
  • Lego Stargate
• Flat isn’t just for Apple Anymore. Furniture as Well
• Weapon Sculptures… Creepy history

Caffeine & Food

• Starbucks, Expensive Coffee is the new Game
• Kopi Luwak often rears its ugly head, but this is something I’m not familiar with
• Sad State of Coffee News, a Thousand Pardons

Music Interludes: PMN

• Echoing August: Radio
  • www.echoingaugust.net

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Tags: apple, Asteroids, Coffee, gadgets, Lego, Macbook Air, Macworld, MBA, Origami, Rubber Band Gun, Steve Jobs, tech news, technology, toaster

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On Today’s Show: Robots, Toast, Geeks, Legos, Ink, Inkjets, Printers, Asteroids

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

Tech Cruft

• Printer Ink costs a ton of cash. but the comparison is flawed
• Tunguska: asteroid, its what the aliens want you to think…
• What is this 1950? In home Nukes are a bad idea
• Turbine Toast. How to deafen breakfast
• Inkjets giving back to the world through song
• Lego unboxing, Millennium Falcon
• Winter Approaches, get thee armed
• I need one of these. Teeth Brushing Robot. hal iTosis?
• Because i can. The Bubble video

Caffeine & Food

• Candy Cane Shots?
• Spiffy Tea Pot
• Robo Coffee Roaster
• Island Coffee wonder
• Coffee as a reward
• DIY coffee maker

Season of Giving

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

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

• The Hot Rods: Hey Little Drummer Boy
  • Artist’s Site
• Rockosaurus Rex: Up on the rooftop
  • Artist’s Site

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Tags: Asteroids, caffeine, Coffee, gadgets, Geeks, Ink, Inkjets, Legos, Printers, Robots, tech news, technology, Toast