From the monthly archives: February 2010
Cupping Coffee: Comparisons, Analysis, Deliciousness – Portland Roasting Coffee Straight forward and easy to understand description of the coffee 'cupping' process with good illustration of comparative scoring. (tags: coffee cupping cupofexcellence)
Timo Arnall points out this video, by a masters student(!), that depicts a slightly nightmarish, yet amusingly ironic, vision of a possible future world with augmented reality, whereby you earn money by subjecting yourself to advertising and depend upon instructions from the system for even basic tasks.
The latter half of [...]
The launch of Google Buzz has prompted me to raise some things that have been lurking in the back of my mind for some time. These thoughts began when the discussion about the ‘walled garden’ nature of facebook et al. emerged a couple of years ago and lead to the initiation of tentative steps towards [...]
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