It's a big coffee mug - no!..it'a bong....

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Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Coffee With Networking for Macmillan's
World's Biggest Coffee Morning 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning Event to auction off lots from original works of art to lunch with IT/telecoms journalists. Great fun for a great cause. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Man With Bong Attacks Police Dispatcher
(AP)

Man With Bong Attacks Police Dispatcher
(AP) 06/24/2005 09:58 PM
AP - A 22-year-old man was wrestled to the ground in the Germantown Police Department Friday afternoon after threatening a dispatcher with a glass bong and a shotgun, police said.

Ace of Spades HQ: Andrew Sullivan
Kerry-Endorsement Watch: Bong

Ace of Spades HQ: Andrew Sullivan
Kerry-Endorsement Watch: Bong 07/26/2004 03:49 PM
Kerry endorsement .. fast

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too much coffee man

too much coffee man 07/09/2004 05:05 PM
Obsessions come in many sizes and flavors - small, tall or veinte. Meet the man who is living the Traveli ng Salesman Problem by attempting to visit every starbucks.

Coffee!

Coffee! 02/15/2003 11:13 AM
Holy crap! I had a cup of Coffee this morning because I got up rather early but was feeling especially sluggish. It's my first cup of the year. It really did the trick. I really understand how some folks quickly...

" Coffee Achiever"

" Coffee Achiever" 05/29/2004 08:52 PM

Best. Coffee. Table. Ever.

Best. Coffee. Table. Ever. 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
The Drift Table lets you float gently over the British landscape from the comfort of your living room. Other projects from the Equator research group include a tablecloth that glows and a key table that responds to your mood. Hi-tech knick-knacks, or a glimpse of the subtle way we'll interact with the domestic environment of the future?

Adios, Mr. Coffee

Adios, Mr. Coffee 02/19/2004 02:53 AM
On Valentine’s Day, Elise and the boys surprised me with a new coffee maker - the Cuisinart DCC-1200. By the way - have I ever mentioned how much I love my family? :) I suppose I shouldn’t have been completely...

Brewing better coffee with DNA

Brewing better coffee with DNA 08/14/2004 11:45 AM

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“Brazil has announced the creation of a coffee DNA data bank, which will help the country improve the quality and size of its coffee crop….”The data bank will help Brazil improve the aroma and flavor of its coffee … to satisfy consumers with a product that has more added value,” the statement said.”…

Cake for Coffee

Cake for Coffee 06/17/2005 04:28 PM

« Sour cream coffee cake with raspberry and cinnamon streusel filling. »

When I think of coffee cake, I think of a dense, slightly sweet cake with cinnamon swirls and nuts in it, but when I say coffee cake in Finland, I get this weird look as if to ask why one would put coffee in a cake. Treats with coffee in Finland, if not some kind of pulla, are some sort of seriously heavy and sweet cream confection. I've also noticed that while berries have an exalted, perhaps even near ubiquitous, place in Finnish desserts, I've not found any local cakes that have the fruit baked inside the cake and instead are always part of the topping or unbaked filling. I don't know if this holds in all parts of Finland, but I couldn't find a single recipe in older, and even some recent, cookbooks that had berries baked in the dough or batter. It's interesting and makes me wonder why not.

So, I decided to torture my familiar test subjects, a.k.a. coworkers, to a sour cream coffee cake with blueberries to see if the concept was too alien or if a real coffee cake might not appeal. A couple commented that it was strange, but few crumbs were left on the serving plate so in spite of the unfamiliar concept, it didn't appear to slow down consumption. :) So, if Finns want to try this cake as a change of pace, I don't think there will be any leftovers.

Coffee cake is another one of those comfort foods that make me think of home. I totted up a list of foods from home that make me feel homesick and, strangely, almost all of them are sugary dessert or breakfast kinds of foods, neither of which I ate very often back home. I'm sure there is a doctoral dissertation on the gastronomic nostalgia of expats in there somewhere.

At long last, too, I finally found the dairy product in Finland that most closely resembles American sour cream, Flora Fraîche with a 20% fat content. It's not créme fraîche, not smetana, not kermaviili, just fraîche. I figured that a country with a dizzying array of dairy products, especially sour ones, that I'd eventually try the right one. It performed perfectly where I had previously been somewhat disappointed with kermaviili.

A sturdy, powerful mixer is highly recommended for the mixing of the butter and sour cream with the dry ingredients as it gets quite stiff and difficult to work with. You could probably also do it with a biscuit dough tool/potato masher [the one that cuts the butter into the flour] but that will take more time and effort. Jarkko was playing World of Warcraft on the computer which is plugged into the step-down transformer my mixer requires so I had to do the first cake the hard way which made my hand mixer very, very hot. Adding in the egg mixture should also be done slowly as it will slop over the sides of the bowl if not added slowly.

Adding the streusel and fruit layers is easy, but I was disappointed when I followed the recipe to the letter with the 2 cups of batter between layers as I found that it wasn't enough and that they melded into one band of goo. I had so much batter left over after the adding the layers that the streusel distribution through the cake was suboptimal. So be more generous with the batter between layers and save a wee bit for yourself as the batter is damned tasty.

Lemon-Blueberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Makes: 1 cake that serves 12 to 16 people
Special tools: A fixed-bottom, 10-inch tube pan (with 10-cup capacity), good mixer, preferably standing
Time: 20 mins prep and 1 hour baking
Source: CI

Berry filling

• 1 cup or 2,5dl frozen blueberries or raspberries
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest

Streusel

• 3/4 cup or 1,75dl unbleached all-purpose flour (3.75oz or 106g)
• 3/4 cup or 1,75dl granulated sugar (5.25oz or 150g)
• 1/2 cup or 1,25dl packed dark brown sugar (3.5oz or 100g)
• 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons or 30g unsalted butter, cold, cut into 2 pieces
• 1 cup or 2,5dl pecans, chopped

Cake

• 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) or 170g unsalted butter, softened but still cool, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
• 2 tablespoons or 30g butter, softened for greasing pan
• 4 large eggs
• 1.5 cups or 3,5dl sour cream [Flora Fraîche is the closest to American sour cream in .fi with 20% fat]
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2.25 cups or 5,25dl unbleached all-purpose flour (11.5oz or 325g)
• 1.25 cups or 3dl granulated sugar (8.75oz or 250g)
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon table salt

1. Toss 1 cup frozen blueberries with 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest in small bowl and set aside.
2. For the streusel: In food processor, process flour, granulated sugar, 1/4 cup (,75 dl) dark brown sugar, and cinnamon until combined, about 15 seconds. Transfer 1 1/4 cups (3 dl) of flour/sugar mixture to small bowl; stir in remaining 1/4 cup (,75 dl) brown sugar and set aside to use for streusel filling. Add butter and pecans to mixture in food processor; pulse until nuts and butter resemble small pebbly pieces, about ten 1-second pulses. Set aside to use as streusel topping.
3. For the cake: Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees. Grease 10-inch tube pan with 2 tablespoons softened butter. Whisk eggs, 1 cup (2,5 dl) sour cream, and vanilla in medium bowl until combined.
4. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in bowl of standing mixer; mix on low speed for 30 seconds to blend. Add butter and remaining 1/2 cup (1 dl) sour cream; mix on low speed until dry ingredients are moistened and mixture resembles wet sand, with few large butter pieces remaining, about 1 1/2 minutes. Increase to medium speed and beat until batter comes together, about 10 seconds; scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula. Lower speed to medium-low and gradually add egg mixture in 3 additions, beating for 20 seconds after each and scraping down sides of bowl. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until batter is light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
5. Using rubber spatula, spread 2 cups (5 dl) batter in bottom of prepared pan, smoothing surface. Sprinkle evenly with 1/2 cup (1 dl) blueberries. Sprinkle evenly with 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) streusel filling (without butter or nuts). Repeat with another 2 cups batter, remaining 1/2 cup (1 dl) blueberries, and remaining 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) streusel filling (without butter or nuts). Spread remaining batter over, then sprinkle with streusel topping (with butter and nuts).
6. Bake until cake feels firm to touch and long toothpick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean (bits of sugar from streusel may cling to tester), 50 to 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 30 minutes. Invert cake onto rimmed baking sheet (cake will be streusel-side down); remove tube pan, place wire rack on top of cake, and reinvert cake streusel-side up. Cool to room temperature, about 2 hours. Cut into wedges and serve. (Cake can be wrapped in foil and stored at room temperature for up to 5 days.)

Self-heating coffee can

Self-heating coffee can 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
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Pro Coffee Roasting

Pro Coffee Roasting 08/20/2004 02:29 PM

My buddy Tonx has what he calls "the second-coolest job in the world." As a barista at Seattle's Victrola Coffee, it's his job to hand-roast the daily coffee blends in the huge Diedrich IR-12 roaster they have on site, and he's written a great walk through (with pictures) of everything involved. And really, how can you go wrong with a machine that uses a infrared gas-powered afterburner to roast up to the 30 pounds of beans at once?

Unless it involves a day care and a drunken misunderstanding, you really can't.

Read - I roast coffee. [Tonx]
Read - Product Page [DiedrichRoasters]

Indie Coffee

Indie Coffee 04/05/2005 11:27 AM
The mission of delocator.net is to assist the public in finding and supporting independently owned cafés. There's a thinly-veiled stance against a certain coffee company, but the site's a great community-driven toolkit for finding yourself a good cup of joe anywhere in the US.

No coffee, but here's another Bagle

No coffee, but here's another Bagle 02/17/2004 03:43 PM
A variant of the mass-mailing Bagle virus seems to have taken off a bit faster than the original--and its intent could be spam-related.

This is why I take my coffee black

This is why I take my coffee black 12/30/2003 01:33 AM
Coffee capital eyes tax on 'designer drinks' Don't you just LOVE designer taxes? Rather than spend time and research dollars on discovering ways to make government more efficient, Seattle's leaders have proposed one of the most creative luxury taxes ever...

"Coffee with steam"

"Coffee with steam" 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

Coffee Stories

Coffee Stories 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Nicaragua and El Salvador, Tres Santos, Honduras, Peru , that Geoff Watts guy can write about coffee.

Coffee on PowerPoint

Coffee on PowerPoint 12/15/2003 08:12 AM
Peter Coffee in eWeek meditates on what PowerPoint is doing to us. He begins with Edward Tufte's piece on how PowerPoint misled the assessment of the risk to the shuttle Columbia. Peter writes: Bad presentations result from people learning to write with a model of "topic sentence, body, conclusion," instead of a journalistic model of "lead (conclusion), significance, supporting details." Peter says that although media "don't just transmit facts; they alter both selection and emphasis, creating different realities in the process," PowerPoint isn't solely to blame for the bad presentations done with it. In fact, he says, PowerPoint helps you...

TPMCafe The Coffee House

TPMCafe The Coffee House 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
newly-launched TPM Cafe .. Daily Josh .. POWERHOUSE .. TPMCafe

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Making a Million Over Coffee

Making a Million Over Coffee 04/13/2005 10:43 AM
How one soaring stock can rescue you from your bad decisions.

Paranoid locking coffee cup

Paranoid locking coffee cup 07/12/2004 12:35 PM
The LockCup is an Israeli-invented coffee-cup that is only liquid-tight when a locking pin is inserted -- no more sharing microbes with the office cup-thief. Link (via Engadget)

Publishing, Coffee, Contracts

Publishing, Coffee, Contracts 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
Newspapers, health benefits in your morning mug, tricky contracts, new books, and explaining what one does to family members.

Net more important than morning coffee?

Net more important than morning coffee? 04/28/2004 04:03 PM
Given the choice at work between personal use of the Net or a morning cup o' joe, employees say the joe can go, a survey says. The study also looks at security issues.

" What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This
Quiz :-)"

" What Kind Of Coffee Are You? Take This
Quiz :-)" 05/12/2004 01:25 AM

Betterhumans > How to Get the Most Kick
from Coffee

Betterhumans > How to Get the Most Kick
from Coffee 05/13/2004 03:45 AM
How to Get the Most Kick from Coffee .. Betterhumans >best results .. Betterhumans

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Carmel Coffee Marketing

Carmel Coffee Marketing 12/29/2003 11:57 PM

The owner of Caffe Cardinale, the Carmel coffee place I visited last July for the WiFi access, just found my blog entry on the subject. He emailed to thank me for the plug and told me he’s sending me a free pound of coffee and a logoed travel mug. And next time I’m in Carmel, he says, the WiFi’s free. That pretty much guaranteed him another mention on this site.

That’s smart marketing. Find happy satisfied customers who tell others about their experience and turn them into fans.

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum 12/19/2004 03:27 PM
If coffee chains used better chocolate, Lawrence Meyers argues, they'd sell more coffee.

Morning coffee notes

Morning coffee notes 06/16/2004 08:42 AM

I'm getting an unprecedented amount of email, most of it from people who want to host the sites, but don't know anything about Manila. They seem to think these are static sites that live in the file system. They are not. Some of the press reports have also made this mistake.

All the time I spend addressing the needs of random people outside the community, is time I'm not spending helping people in the community. So I'm choosing not to spend time on these offers, when I get offers from people who understand what a Manila site is, I'll pursue that. I'm still waiting for Rogers and Erin to get a very simple transition server up and running. Hurry up guys.

Sometime in the future we may have some kind of ethical code that says that when there's an outage, professional publications wait until the outage is cleared before calling out the flamers at Slashdot.

I remind people I'm just a person, and I have a complicated life already. Regardless what the press says, it's still true. I had two doctor's appts yesterday and one today. I may need surgery. This isn't a life-threatening illness, but it's not a fun thing either. Moving on June 30. So there are other things on my mind, believe it or not.

There are a couple of memes that are travelling around the net. First that somehow you have to be careful of what you say or I won't export your site. It's not true. I've been doing this for over 25 years. Much of that has been spent on the connection between the First Amendment and technology. I'm the last guy you have to worry about in this way. The second wrong meme is that I should have or could have given more notice. Putting a note on Scripting News wouldn't have been notice. I've tried to communicate with free-hosting users through this site many times. It doesn't work. Most of them don't read it. Email wouldn't have worked either because most of the email addresses are dead, and had I sent them, the outrage would have been about spam (read the Register a rticle for an idea). Spam filters of course would have stopped most of the messages that had email addresses that hadn't gone out of date. The only other choice would have been to somehow modify the content displayed on their websites. I wasn't going to do that. Also it wasn't technically an option, since the server couldn't handle the load. (Again these are all dynamic sites, not static ones.)

One of the things I learned is that just because a site is dormant doesn't mean it's not getting hits. The referer spam problem on these sites was something to behold. Search engines still index their pages, and return hits. They were mostly dead, in the sense that most hadn't been updated for several years. I had to find out quickly who was there and what were they using the sites for. I had to get other people mobilized to host their sites. I'm getting sick. And I'm moving on June 30.

One of these days in this weblog world kindness may be part of how we deal with each other. I think some people should condemn the flamers, but don't. They shouldn't get any support. Calling this outage murder, or saying I'm psychotic, well, this is so over the top, but instead of condemning this, a couple of people have councelled me on how to deal with it. Well I don't accept that. I won't deal with hysterical people. I'm not running for president, I am not a corporate executive, and I don't tell bedtime stories to adults unless its for fun and they're friends. I can tell you what it feels like to be me, but I don't know how it feels to be you. I'm willing to listen, up to a point, but unless your site is hosted on weblogs.com, I don't understand why you're hogging the microphone right now. I believe so strongly in the weblog world, that we should be grounded in truth. I think a lot of people participating in this dicussion are not grounded in truth, deliberately so, openly so. Shame on you, I say.

One thing is gratifying, the weblogs.com users have uniformly been patient, supportive, gracious, and just plain nice. The people who are behaving badly are people on the sidelines. This is a great community, I've been serving them for four years for free, and surprise, most of them get that and appreciate it. We'll get through this, it's just a corner-turn, we've done lots of them in the past. And when it's all over we'll be friends, I hope.

Gourmet Coffee To Your Door

Gourmet Coffee To Your Door 04/05/2005 04:08 AM
gourmet coffee .. Coffee

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Morning pre-coffee notes

Morning pre-coffee notes 07/26/2004 07:27 AM

Setting the scene over at the Fleet, we're way up high, in section 319 on the seventh floor. There's a section of seats that have been cleared out for the bloggers. We're told there will be tables and chairs so we can update from there. There is ample power, I brought a power strip. Last night Matt Stoller called to say that they had gotten the WiFi working. That's good.

This is the view of the stage from our space.

Right behind us, within touching distance is CNN's blogger booth. Not sure what they have planned there, I wish they weren't quite so close. I mean are they going to let bloggers hang out in their studio? I guess this is what you get when you aren't paying for the space.

This morning at 10AM is the official bloggers breakfast. From there we'll shuttle over to Fleet, wait in a huge line, go through security again, and then go upstairs to get set up, hopefully fully powered, with wifi.

It All Started With a Good Cup of Coffee

It All Started With a Good Cup of Coffee 09/05/2004 11:46 PM
New York Times Sep 6 2004 3:39AM GMT

I say, matron, this coffee is just
splendid

I say, matron, this coffee is just
splendid 06/16/2004 05:05 AM
Caffeine and weblogs, the breakfast of champions. Now, let's see: New Movable Type pricing, with the "Unlimited Personal Edition ($99.95): Allows for an unlimited number of authors and weblogs for personal use". This is a marvellous hint for mail.app users...

BOFH and the coffee machine

BOFH and the coffee machine 02/11/2004 12:18 PM
Episode 4 La Bella Machina

Brief Morning Coffee Notes

Brief Morning Coffee Notes 11/18/2003 05:37 PM

Good morning spores fans. Pretty nice day. Drinkin coffee. Thinking about the day ahead.

phpPatterns: PHP, Coffee and Components

phpPatterns: PHP, Coffee and Components 12/02/2003 08:48 AM
There's a new post over on phpPatterns about a "one-on-one chat with one of PHPs core developers" and Harry F.

Economist.com Coffee-houses

Economist.com Coffee-houses 12/20/2003 05:03 AM
Grave and Wholesome Liquor .. Economist

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Having The Coffee Shop As Your Office

Having The Coffee Shop As Your Office 12/16/2003 04:13 PM
Whenever the discussion comes up about coffee shops and restaurants offering free wireless connectivity, someone always says that it's a terrible idea because those people will crowd up the tables and never leave after buying a single cup of coffee. This seems to be a simplistic view of things, and some coffee shops that offer wireless have found that having people who come in and use the place all day as their office has been quite beneficial. The Dallas Morning News has a profile of one coffee shop that seems to host a large number of "regulars" who use it as their office. They tend to buy a lot of product, bring in more customers (for meetings and such), as well as be generally helpful. In the article, one guy who works every day at the coffee shop as a freelance graphic designer helped the shop design their new menus for free. As for the big fear of them hogging up the tables? It's no fun to be working when the place is overcrowded anyway, so most of them have no problem moving on at points when it's really crowded. Instead, they tend to spend the most time there at off-peak hours, when there's plenty of free space.

Coffee Republic - London

Coffee Republic - London 11/17/2003 11:32 AM
At Coffee Republic in Piccadilly Circus, London, free wireless internet until december 31th. good bandwidth :)

What does C have in common with a
scalding cup of coffee?

What does C have in common with a
scalding cup of coffee? 11/07/2003 11:02 AM
Opinion Security's Brewing Mess
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Philips Senseo Coffee Pod Review

Philips Senseo Coffee Pod Review 06/16/2004 08:34 AM

GadgetMadness reviews the Philips Senseo coffee maker, the other single-serving coffee machine available in the states that uses those quick clean-up coffee pods. They basically flip for it, even going so far as to test the temperature with a laser thermometer, and swearing off Red Bull and Monster for, well, a while. At $70, it's not cheap (basic, conventional drip machines can be had for around $10 at most stores), plus you're locked into buying the pods. Still, it's less clean-up than a french press (which I now use, but I work from home), plus you don't have to slurp hours-old coffee all day (although I have to admit, nothing says mind-numbing automaton like eighth-hour Folgers).
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Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops?

Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? 12/29/2003 12:25 PM

Monday morning, before coffee

Monday morning, before coffee 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
Arrrrrrrgh, my eyes! Janet Jackson's breast exposed to nation Arrrrrrrgh, his eyes! Wesley Clark doesn't blink. Arrrrrrrgh, his thighs! The Superbowl streaker's site. Damn bloggers. Arrrrrrrgh, they fly! Nice-Tits.org. Ok, that's inspired. (via memepool)...

It's a big coffee mug - no!..it'a bong....

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