Should you Bother with the Starbucks iPhone App?

Seattle Weekly give you 5 reasons why you should pick up the Starbucks iPhone app.

Adding Caffeine to Foods

Here are 5 foods that you can buy with caffeine added to them but why would you want to?

Guest Post over at The League of Melbotis

Over at Ryan's blog, The League of Melbotis you can find my guest post where I ruminate about digital comics for the iPhone. Specifically Irredeemable by Mark Waid produced by BOOM! Studios.

The Chemicals in Your Coffee

Wired gives you a break down of the chemical composition of your regular cup of coffee. MMMmmmmmm....Trigonelline!

Coffee Filter Tips

From Lifehacker: If you like to home brew your own coffee don't ignore the role that a proper coffee filter can have in enhancing your cup of joe.

Friday Book Review: Hot, Flat and Crowded

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America probably should have been titled Hot, Flat, and Crowded: We really need to get our crap together now! I mean this book is really depressing. It should be fairly obvious to everyone at this point that global warming is for real and we need to do something about it. Not next year or next week but right now.

The first half of the book deals with the current state of affairs including how global warming is influencing our daily lives from fuel costs to food. It is a pretty bleak outlook especially since the only way out of it is for our governments to start legislating the correct behaviour into law. Which face it folks probably isn't going to happen as our politicians would lose votes. Unless, we make it know that global warming and the environment are important issues that we care about and they should too.

The second half of the book is as exciting as the first half is bleak. There are tremendous opportunities to innovate our way out of this dilemma we are in and a few of the scenarios Thomas L. Friedman paints sounds like Star Trek but I'd much rather that future to Blade Runner or Mad Max any day.

Now excuse me while I contact Ottawa Solar Power to do a feasibility assessment on my house.

Making the Most of Your Free Office Coffee

From Lifehacker: If you are lucky or unlucky enough to get free coffee at your work place then here are some helpful tips for making it better.

At my place of employment I have three options to choose from:

• Free coffee in the break room.
• Tim Horton's in the cafeteria.
• French press at my desk.

The French press is by far the tastiest but I can never get enough as all of my co-workers want a taste.