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03.09.08 by Widge @ 3:58 am  As part of our ongoing coverage of Worldwide Caffeine Appreciation Month, we offer up a link that provides some ways to defend yourself against nags who might try to get you to believe that you should go off coffee, the fools: Apparently coffee improves your short term memory, which indicates that I'm not drinking nearly enough of it. Did I mention that coffee improves your short term memory? And an important point here: Drinking 400mg of caffeine in one night isn't the healthiest thing you could be doing, but neither is shift work. Well done. Found via Lifehacker, where the comments are rather amusing. Image from Lileks' The Adventures of Mr. Coffee Nerves, which we mentioned previously. Categorized as: Coffee
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02.11.08 by Widge @ 2:55 am  We've got toasters that communicate with the net, coffee makers that can communicate with the net, and now...your travel mug? Well, that's the concept, anyway, of the Yuno Coffee Mug by Yanko Design. Do we really want a travel mug to be able to betray us when Skynet hits? Also, if you're getting traffic alerts on your mug--people can barely work their car stereos, now they're having to eyeball their travel mug while driving? I dunno, guys. Sounds like mayhem in the making. But still, you can't fault them for trying. Their hearts are in the right place: It lets you enjoy the morning the way you deserve to, stress free and highly caffenaited [sic]. Sounds like bliss. Bliss with a horrible fiery automotive death later on, but bliss for the moment. Found via Engadget. Categorized as: Coffee
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02.08.08 by Widge @ 3:49 am  The inevitable James Lileks is posting a classic comic strip from back in the day warning about the trials and tribulations that come from ingesting coffee. The evil villain Mr. Coffee Nerves is among you... What the hell is he supposed to be? An invisible guy with a jet-powered backpack who has nothing better to do than hope that the cumulative effect of coffee consumption breaks up families? Wouldn't it be easier just to have sex with these people while they’re asleep, and let them worry that they've become demonically possessed? In other words, what we're dealing with here is the grandfather of the Cavity Creeps. Categorized as: Coffee
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02.03.08 by Widge @ 5:02 pm  A couple of weeks ago at dinner, somebody was shocked and appalled to hear that I go to Starbucks rather than have some wonderfully obscure, squirreled away mom and pop coffee shoppe that I frequent. There's two reasons for this: 1. I haven't found a good mom and pop coffee shoppe that's anywhere near the Technocave and its attached compound. The ones I've tried have been subpar at best. And the few times I have found one that's near where I frequent, their hours are so odd that they're never open when you want to grab a cup. Which blows my mind whenever I see a coffee shop (especially a Starbucks near a major road) close at 10pm. 10pm, for the record, is when a lot of the people I know really need coffee the most, so I mean, come on, folks. Get with the program. 2. Starbucks isn't the best coffee I've ever tasted, but I know what I'm getting when I pull into one. And it's amusing to tell them I want three extra shots with my mocha drink and hear them ask "You know that already comes with two, right?" "Yes. Yes, I do." Categorized as: Coffee
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01.24.08 by Widge @ 1:22 am  A Japanese siphon bar is apparently some kind of crazed alchemical machine. It brews coffee in a way that the owners of the thing talk up as being so good it sounds like a cross between enlightenment and an orgasm. (And sadly, no, those two things don't always go together.) Of course, if I had bought something for $20K, I'd talk it up like crazy too. This article in the New York Times also talks about a $11K machine called a Clover. There's two of them in New York City, apparently. I'm going to have to seek one of them out and try this legendary coffee. For $20K or even $11K, the coffee better keep me up for three days straight, plus alleviate my need to wear contacts and help me lose weight. I wouldn't expect it to do anything for my personality, because honestly, there are limits. Categorized as: Coffee
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