Today’s Form over function is a first. A wallpaper dedicated to a machine. At Temple University we recently got rid of our oldest and most well worn Plotter, 4 foot wide printer, the machines was 7 years old, I have personally rebuilt many of its internal workings and have brought it back from the dead many times. They are only designed to last 4-5 years. Its strange to feel a sense of loss for a machine, but this machine has produced a good portion of the work for every student who has passed through this department in the past 7 years. For 4 of those years it was the sole method of printing documents this large. With an Impressive body of work to her credit Old Hickory (we name all machines after food we also have BBQ, Mesquite, and Cayenne ) had to be surplused for parts at the end of May.

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Money is green, and frankly so is everything else lately. But money is also king, if it costs too much then green is bad, and just won’t work. If it being green causes people with lots of money to loose some of it or make less of it then green is still bad and will get crushed. However green, lately, is saving consumers lots of Money. And the court of public opinion has decreed that green is good. So like a casino giving out a gambling hotline number, Big business wants you to be green, through clenched teeth.

In case you hadn’t guessed Green is the new buzzword for everything from clothing to furniture of late. Green living, green cars, green tech. But what does it mean? Does it mean on one hand reducing conspicuous consumption of goods and tech leaving behind a wakes of debris in your path? Does it mean reducing the oft mentioned footprint that each one of us has? Or is it something about recycle buckets, carbon, and hippies? Quite frankly it could be all of them but don’t let buzzwords and stereotypes lead you to believe that this will all wash over, and that none of it really means anything.

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

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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

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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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On Today’s Show: Mugs, Tesla Coils, Manholes, Eyelashes, Plants and the Ozone

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• Saturday the 8th Live! At Techpodcast Round Table

Tech

• Cool Tesla Coil Pattern, colors are aftermarket
• Feedback: Phone Update Via listener comments
• We don’t do this, But an Update on a Review Crisis
• Baking soda could save your skin
  
• Clean air and Art all-in-one
• Resistance to time is now measurable. Ohm’s Law Clock
• All in marketing, but a great Idea. Mom Spit
• Bored? Call a meeting
• Urban functional art
• re gifting in a whole new way
• Go big or go Home, Eyelashes

Caffeine & Food

• On or Off Coffee Mug.
  • Should have been Speak or Shhhh
• Coffee or Tea Anywhere now

Season of Giving

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On Today’s Show: Jedi Mind tricks, Exoskeletons, Bluetooth, Santa and Charity.

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• Welcome Zune Listeners
• My Inbox Shame
• my Twitter Vacuum
• Happy Times had by all

Tech

• 66 fans? Like a Dyson this thing doesn’t loose suction
• RoboCop? Mechwarrior? Anyone
• Jedi, Wii Match made in heaven
• Magnets make everything cooler
• This Bluetooth headset doesn’t make you look like a Tool
• Anyone at Jeep ever play Halo?
• Sad, real sad. Santa doesn’t work for Coke, they just think he does

Caffeine & Food

• More Coffee, Better Flavor
• Campo’s Cheesesteaks, Food Network Review

Season of Giving

• Penny-Arcade Child’s Play

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