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Posted on 04.04.09 by Widge @ 1:26 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own. So here we are once more having buzzed our way through the second annual Worldwide Caffeine Appreciation Month. I hope you all had fun. We certainly did. And I'm sure caffeine appreciates getting so many people to think about what it's brought to our lives. So here we are in our caffeinated glory:  Brittany enjoys a mug of the good stuff. Categorized as: Caffeine
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Posted on 03.26.09 by Widge @ 1:27 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Jon from The Unique Geek--now with speed lines! Just a brief note that, once more in celebration of Worldwide Caffeine Appreciation Month, we will be running a gallery of pictures from you (i.e. our illustrious readers) enjoying the wonder drug that works wonders (i.e. caffeine). To participate, simply send an image (or a link to an image on your site or on Twitpic or Flickr or wherever) of you partaking of something caffeinated to my attention at widge sucks at need coffee dot com. As before, I will link the pic to your website provided you give me a URL. For the full set of rules of engagement on this, please see last year's announcement post. To reiterate what we have there: the last photos will be accepted for publication at 11:59PM EST, March 31st. Happy buzzing. Categorized as: Caffeine
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Posted on 03.21.09 by Widge @ 1:36 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Well, it is Worldwide Caffeine Appreciation Month, after all. And we've posted guides to caffeine before. Of note, we told you about our friends at Energy Fiend and their guide to Starbucks caffeine levels and about how to optimize your buzz. But now we get somebody--apparently one of the main burritos at Peet's Coffee--talking about how your choice of coffee type can affect how much caffeine you're taking in. If your morning cup came from a commercial roaster who included Robusta in the blend, we have another level of complexity. Caffeine content in these coffees, in one study, varied between 1.16 and 4.0%. A straight 12 oz. cup, using 20 grams of the 4% coffee, probably wouldn't taste very good, but would definitely provide more buzz: 800 milligrams of caffeine.
That's some serious buzz there, folks. And I want it. But as always, respect caffeine and respect your body, and don't let the two do anything together that you'll regret later. Categorized as: Caffeine
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Posted on 03.01.09 by Widge @ 9:15 pm
Comments on this: 4 so far. Add your own.  Caffeine. It's always been there for you, even (and especially) in your darkest hour. Give it some love. Worldwide Caffeine Appreciation Month is something we declared March to be last year, after seeing some people (who shall go nameless but are easily Google-able) declare it a different sort of caffeine month as a ploy to get people to buy their books and coffee substitute product. They even got some government officials to come on board their cause. What was it Mencken said about politics? Anyway, in order to show you too appreciate caffeine for all that it's done for our species in the fight against sleep and lack of productivity, please join us. Worldwide, it's time to get buzzed and get some work done. So, as threatened previously, we declare the second annual month-long caffeinated party to be in session! If you have anything caffeine-related that you'd like to share as a result of this mayhem, please let me know. Categorized as: Caffeine
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Posted on 01.17.09 by Widge @ 7:28 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  So HealthSaver is back...if you recall, they ran a survey at the end of 2007 to determine the most and least caffeinated American cities. The big winner was Chicago. How did things go this time around? Tampa is the big winner this year, unseating Chicago who drops to #3. But my own city of Atlanta...man, it's a sorry tale, I must say. We got handed our ass: while the least caffeinated city is Riverside/San Bernardino, second to last--"following closely" to San Bernardino--is Atlanta. I am so ashamed. Look, folks, I know how much I consume...did everybody else just quit while I wasn't looking? We were fifth in the country last year!! Criminy. Seattle, which didn't place in the top five last time is now #3. I guess they really took umbrage to the finalists last time and got cracking on it. No pun intended. "The survey considered numerous caffeine sources, including coffee, tea, sodas, energy drinks, chocolate, pain relievers and caffeine pills." Which could mean that the folks in Chicago are just really coked up on pain medication...who knows? But if you just do caffeinated coffee, then Seattle is the winner second year in a row. So there's that. "55 percent of residents surveyed saying this elixir of alertness would be the most difficult caffeine product to give up." That's down 3% from last year, but I suppose now that there's five energy drink brands for every man woman and child in this country, that could be attributed to people moving off of coffee to "the hard stuff." Categorized as: Caffeine
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