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Posted on 08.19.08 by Widge @ 12:36 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  That's right, like Superman and Batman, coffee and caffeine swoop in and save your ass from many things on a daily basis. That's what this round-up of caffeine and coffee info from The New York Times relates. Among the bits:
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Posted on 08.08.08 by Widge @ 5:32 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Lisa Madigan, attorney general of Illinois, is apparently under the impression that coffee is a gateway drug. Or at least coffee that humorously depicts itself as a serious drug (which of course contains a drug: caffeine) is a gateway drug. Or...something. But apparently she's said that Meth Coffee is not welcome in Illinois and thus, Meth Coffee has complied by no longer accepting orders from or shipping to Illinois. Full disclosure: Needcoffee.com is an affiliate of Meth Coffee. This means when you click on the scary Meth Coffee guy down on the right hand side there and buy some, we get some kickbacks, just like with any other company we've got an affiliation with. We became an affiliate after we first reviewed the product, were impressed by its potency, and thought others would like it as well. The folks behind Meth Coffee take this seriously, though (Madigan's charges, not our affiliation), and have responded on their website: Meth Coffee doesn't glorify methamphetamines any more than Richard Pryor glorified cocaine. Meth Coffee glorifies coffee and the wonderful, legal, kick-in-the-pants it provides. Coffee is a drug, so what is wrong with taking the phrase, "I'm amped on caffeine" to an absurd level? That's what comedians do. If you look at the coffee bag and the web site, you can see there is nothing flashy, sexy, or sane about methamphetamines. We depict a roller coaster ride of paranoia, fear, and insanity on our packaging. Where is the glamor? There is no enticement to do methamphetamines.
Which is why we like them so much, I guess. Because Needcoffee.com is basically a flume zoom of paranoia, fear and insanity. Categorized as: Coffee
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Posted on 08.02.08 by Widge @ 5:47 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  That, my friends, is the world's largest coffee cup. In fact, here's a farther away shot but at least you get a better idea of scale:  Made of stainless steel, it stands over a meter and a half tall and is over two meters in diameter. It was created by Vinacafe Bien Hoa, who's apparently the grand poobah of Vietnamese coffee producers. It weighs over 2600 pounds and contained 952 gallons of coffee. Trouble is...it's instant coffee. Categorized as: Coffee
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Posted on 05.30.08 by Cosette @ 10:42 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, you can ignore this (or just file it away for later), but here at the Technocave, it's really warm outside. When it's too hot to think about nice hot coffee outside, what are your options? You could have iced coffee, but then it just gets diluted after a while. You could go for a Frappucino thing if you wanted to pay out the nose for something that tastes like sugary ice at the bottom. But there is now a wonderful third option. YumSugar has the answer to the coffee-in-the-summer dilemma which affects us all. She's been concocting Vietnamese-style coffee popsicles-- yummy coffee on a stick! The Vietnamese-style consists of blending espresso with sweetened condensed milk (which we usually refer to as Thai coffee here) and looks fabulously rich and cool on a warm day. She's posted the recipe on her site here-- enjoy! Thanks to Craftzine for the headsup. Categorized as: Coffee
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Posted on 05.17.08 by Widge @ 6:58 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Nespresso recently announced the winners of the 2008 Design Contest. What were they designing? Single-serve coffee machines. And frankly, if you check out the full gallery at Gizmodo, you might ask yourself the same question: am I making espresso or playing live-action Myst? Take the winner, "Untitled," for example. My first thought was: "They put a coffee machine into a whiteboard? Do I write what I want on the board and it magically makes it?" That might actually be cool. There's a video on the Nespresso site of the making of the entry, along with info on the contest, but it doesn't show it actually working. Hint: if you ask for a double shot and not a single, then Atrus is freed and your journey can continue. Categorized as: Coffee
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