Expect More Starbucks Products in Your Local Grocery Store

Buoyed by the success of Via instant coffee Starbucks will continue to push it's product into grocery stores.

Aeropress Review by Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow has a nice write up of the Aeropress over at Boing Boing.

Friday Book Review: The Girl Who Played with Fire

I don't have time to write about how good The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson is as I am too busy reading the final book in the trilogy. I think you all should just go out and buy the whole series.

Coffee Etiquette from the Nerdist

A great post from the Nerdist on 8 simple etiquette rules to follow at your local coffee shop.

Caffeine Helps You Work Out

A recently release position paper by the International Society of Sports Nutrition details how caffeine can help you work out. Oh caffeine, is there nothing you can't do?

Coffee Prices Going Up, Up, Up

Coffee beans reached a 12 year high today.  Expect your local coffee slinger to pass those savings on to you.

Friday Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

There certainly has been a lot written about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. So much so that I initially resisted reading the book.  The last book I remember with this much hype was Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which I found fairly pedantic and predictable.

Happily this book lives up to the hype.  Larsson's is writing a closed room mystery which is also wrapped up in a financial thriller all while being set in Sweden.  The mystery section is tightly written and having it set in Sweden really adds to the oddness of the entire story.

The main characters in the novel are very well developed and who's motivations are very real.  Of course, the break out character that everyone is talking about is Lisbeth Salander, the afore mentioned girl with the dragon tattoo.  While she makes a big impression on the reader the other main characters like Mikael Blomkvist, are no less interesting.

I have to recommend this book as a buy for the engaging mystery and believable characters.  I'm going to be starting in on the sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire, just as soon as I can clear some of these other books off my queue.