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08.25.11 by Widge @ 4:07 am  So Scott sent this over: io9 is reporting on a new study that links caffeine with protecting your ass (not to mention the rest of you) from skin cancer. This in itself is not news, as we reported on a BBC article literally--holy crap, to the date--four years ago that said the same. The devil is in the details, however. Previously, it was shown that caffeine helped increase the body's ability to get rid cancerous/damaged cells. Now it appears it also keeps cancerous cells from forming in the first place. We had linked to an article from 2002 saying that caffeinated lotions are a good weapon against skin cancer, whereas io9 links to a quick abstract on a study...from 1986. So again, caffeine is your friend. The Sun is a necessary evil that will kill you if it can. Some of you, like I do, can only go outside during the daylight hours because your shoes are lined with the soil of your native earth. But all of us could do with some caffeinated sunscreen. Here's what's amazing: a quick Googling shows that nobody actually sells any. Which is weird. The closest I can find is from ThinkGeek, which io9 rightly links to as well: Shower Shock Caffeinated Body Wash Of course, until somebody comes up with some...you could do the sensible thing and just stay the hell inside. I mean, honestly, besides sunlight...there's people out in the world. Seriously. Categorized as: Stimuli
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08.24.11 by Dindrane @ 3:34 pm  We've all seen them: the series where some hapless, but lovable Hugh Grant-wannabe somehow manages to charm all the ladies around him (who are, of course, totally out of his class) without even trying or indeed even realizing that he's done it. Poor fool. But how does he do it? How, in fact, can you tell when it's happening to you? Need Coffee comes once again to the rescue! This handy checklist will provide you with the certainty you crave. If at least eight of these ten items are true for you, then you, lucky dog, are the star male of a harem anime series! Make the most of it! w00t! (And sorry, ladies: while technically both ladies and gentlemen can be the focus of a harem series, it's usually the guys, so this time, we're doing them. In a list, I mean.) Categorized as: Stimuli
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08.18.11 by Widge @ 8:38 am  Recently, Cosette and I took an overnight trip up to Highlands, North Carolina simply to get away from it all for a brief mini-vacation. What we found was a very nice, very small town in the midst of the mountains (as the name would imply). Half get-away-from-it-all town with high-end spas, half preserved small town, it was also...and perhaps best of all, about twenty degrees cooler than Atlanta. At first, we were enjoying ourselves with the cool and novel things that we found there. Food, for one thing. Although that took some work: every place kept weird hours. Nobody's website was up to date, places closed from 2pm to 5pm or 3pm to 6pm or were just inexplicably closed. We finally found ourselves seated in the rooftop restaurant area at the Old Edwards Inn--its first day of the new rooftop setup and inadvertently became, as they told us, their first customers. The empty seats surrounding us bore witness to this fact. (Pictured just below the break is the spare rib-topped pizza that was the daily special. Yes, presented with that, you too might just give up and cheat on your diet.) Categorized as: Stimuli
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08.13.11 by Dindrane @ 6:53 pm  I put together a list of what I considered to be the top horror anime back in 2007. Since that list was published, a great deal of horror-related anime has been released in the West: some new titles, and some older titles now available for the first time. It's not a genre that's particularly in vogue at the moment, alas, since studios are focusing more on shojo action and anything with a whiff of moe, but that doesn't mean there's not good stuff out there. Since we get comments on that list all the time asking about this more recent anime or that one, we at Need Coffee thought it was time to revisit the topic and prepare for your enjoyment an updated list of must-see horror anime titles. Japan has been cranking out the live action horror lately instead of animated horror, but there are still several gems worth the viewing. Categorized as: Stimuli
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08.04.11 by Widge @ 12:33 am  So this weekend we get a prequel/reboot/thing for Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And I'm uncertain how I feel about it, based on the trailers, as we've discussed in multiple podcasts by this point. However, it did get me thinking--and you know that's always a dangerous thing. We have plans in place in case of zombies. We have plans in place in case of Skynet. We even have given some thought to when animals rise up and start kicking some ass. But do we actually have a Rise of the Apes sort of plan? In other words, what if non-human simian creatures got even smarter than they are and decided to whup some ass? If we've learned anything from Batman it's to know who to keep tabs on. So for your easy planning purposes, we've devoted some skull sweat to identifying ten simians that you should definitely keep track of. Because if Apes ever do actually rise, we expect these to throw their lot in with them. Stay vigilant. Categorized as: Stimuli
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08.01.11 by Widge @ 4:37 am  Why is this man smiling? It's not because he's going to take this particular item home and wear it (although...we don't know, maybe he did--but we'd prefer not to know). No, he's smiling specifically because something in him knew that the "Nanner Hammock" (again, their nomenclature, not ours) would rule the day with our initial round of Thrift Store Battle. By popular vote, Isaac Hunt and his band of thrift store adventurers rocked the house with this one. Isaac will be getting the Mystery Box of Winning in a bit and they can fight amongst themselves for who gets the contents. Did you enjoy the Battle? Do you plan to enter next time now that you see how it works? Do you find yourself confused as to why a nanner needs a hammock? Leave it in the comments, friends. Thanks for playing. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.25.11 by Widge @ 1:18 am  So the trailer for the second half of the sixth series of the new Doctor Who is up and we have a date: August 27th. And with the trailer live, you can be certain every single bit of info we can glean from it is important and a clue and is simply Moffat screwing with our heads. But that's part of the fun, yes? I, Doctor Who novice that I am, have taken a moment to give the trailer some intense scrutiny and share with you both the trailer and some items you may have missed--but I with my eagle eyes did not. That's after the break. Thanks to Rob Levy for letting me know the vid has been posted to begin with. PLEASE NOTE: my analysis is so stunningly accurate it will no doubt contain spoilers. You have been warned. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.21.11 by Widge @ 4:50 am  So we get another adaptation of Captain America this weekend. I am looking forward to it with some apprehension--the apprehension a default mechanism to protect myself from disappointment. I started thinking about Chris Evans, and the version of Cap we've seen in the film and what this version entails. Then I started thinking about different versions of the character I've run into over the years, both in comics and out, as we've mentioned before. And thus, a bit of time later and here we are. A rundown of my personal favorites--the ones I found Most Entertaining over my long career of reading comics and partaking of comics-related media. Hopefully Evans will appear somewhere on this list. We shall see. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.20.11 by Widge @ 11:21 am  We received another two entries for the contest and so we have added them to the poll below. If you want to support them, hop in and start voting. We're going to push out the deadline for voting because it took us a day or so to get these two new entries in. So to be fair, voting ends now 11:59PM EST, July 27th. You can vote. Your friends can vote. Hell, if your dog has access to a computer, your dog can vote. We're not particular. Popularity drives the winner and the winner gets a mystery box full of random goodies from the Need Coffee Closet of Swag. Now let's meet our two new contestants. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.15.11 by Widge @ 4:16 pm  A few random bits that we had leftover to help you get done with your work week. One of the most startling things that happened when I started watching a lot of British panel shows was discovering somebody I hadn't seen in forever. I'm speaking specifically of when I sat bolt upright on the couch and said, "Holy crap, that's where Rich Hall went!" He had a series on HBO in the 80s and then sort of fell off my radar. And I don't know, but he looks just the same as I remember him. No idea. Regardless, here he is from the most recent Channel 4 Comedy Gala singing "Roberta," a song from his country alter ego, Otis Lee Crenshaw... Categorized as: Stimuli
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