Coffee (sorta) Watch: Folgers “Coffee” Co. will shutdown down their Kansas City “Roasting” plant in 2012. The plant opened in 1908 and operations will be consolidated at Folgers’ New Orleans plant where there is a more favorable tax environment. Curating the Internet (Video) A Spike Jonze movie about two robots living in a Los Angeles. The plot […]
If you bicycle as much as I do, Google Maps’s new bicycling directions are awesome Maersk built six of the fastest cargo container ships ever but they can’t sell them and instead the ships are being used to host a children’s TV game show If you haven’t watched the new Tron movie trailer yet, here it is […]
Grape Nuts, the not-so-popular cereal brand, is just finely chopped up bread As many as 300 new golf courses may open between now and 2020 in China’s Hainan province The resurgence of classic board games in the US attributed to the economy’s downturn. No mention of the economics of the indie board game scene Information is Beautiful’s 2-dimensional […]
Grateful Dead & Academia Previously rumored, now confirmed: Starbucks rolls out single-cup “pour-over” coffee on March 9th, nationwide” Web-wizard Shaun Inman is branching out out into iPhone video games Mozilla Thunderbird’s plans for 2010 include becoming a self-sustainable business Federal government hands Ohio money for new trains, tracks and passenger service stations but the state legislature doesn’t seem to […]
An interview, dated February 13th, with “why the lucky stiff.” _why’s online presence was wiped from the the internet on August 19th, 2009 Wired UK isn’t dead yet, debut circulation is nearly 50,000 subscribers Climate change at fault for a 23% drop-off Kenyan coffee production US states awarded $1.5 billion from the Department of Transportion to kickstart projects. […]
A Swedish developer laments incorporating technical jargon loanwords from English (more on “loanwords” from Wikipedia) A list of fonts shipped with Windows 7 New York magazine’s Sam Anderson wonders if ChatRoulette is a nod to our internet past. No discussion of how sites like John Halcyon Styn’s CitizenX pioneered this medium many years ago. In coffee news, Starbucks […]
David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash […]