A totally reinvented paper coffee cup. No more plastic lids!
(full article Startup Radically Reinvents The Disposable Coffee Cup, Eliminating Plastic Lids | Co. Design)
Source: fastcodesign.com
They did an experiment where they gave some customers a ‘buy ten get one free’ card, while others got a ‘buy twelve get one free card’ but with the first two stamps already filled in. In practical terms, the loyalty scheme was identical, but the customers bought coffees more quickly to full up the ‘buy twelve’ cards in less time – in line with ‘goal gradient hypothesis’ – despite the fact that the actual progress towards the goal was no different. The researchers call this the ‘illusory goal progress’ effect and shows that our perception of how close we are to achieving something can be easily manipulated by shifting the goal posts. (via What motivates us more than most anything else? - Barking up the wrong tree)
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Coffee: 4 minutes of education and fun. All you ever wanted to know about coffee but were too afraid to ask.
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I really wonder why people drink this stuff. It has coffee as an afterthought ingredient!
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
I know my geeky friends and colleagues almost all share a love of tech and coffee, so this spec doc from the IETF will have huge appeal.
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
I particularly like sections 2.1.4. (the WHEN method) and also 2.2.3 (what’s the point?!)
I should also take the opportunity to point you to the spec “Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2” found at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2325.txt
Vital reading.
Bonus points if you not only understand this, but have a working implementation of either HTCPCP on your webserver or have a compliant hardware device that supports CP-MIB.
Place your bladders in the locked and upright position
via Rob Cottingham
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Coffee is the second most widely traded commodity in the world, after oil.
Venezuelan designer Enrique Luis Sardi has teamed up with Italian coffee company Lavazza to create a master piece of green design: Cookie cup.
First you drink the coffee, then you eat the cup! Brilliant. And perhaps many of us have thought of something like this at some point, but they did it!
“The cup is made of pastry covered with a special icing sugar, which works as an insulator, and makes the cup waterproof hence allowing you to use the cup and then appreciate its taste.”
This goes back to 2003, but it is never late to celebrate such a great product.
Source: packaginguqam.blogspot.com
Coffee, Pinotage? Coffee Pinotage!
This post may read like a product endorsement. It is.
Tonight some kind person thrust a glass of Barista Pinotage into my hand. I put up little resistance (read: begged). My first glass of the night was, red, unknown. Not bad, but blurred into the mental archives labelled: unmemorable. This 2nd glass of Pinotage though was, well, blog-worthy.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of sampling a Diemersfontein Pinotage you’ve still got some wine sampling to do. The first time I had a glass (or 3) of this much fabled “coffee” wine was a cold winter’s evening at a good friend’s house and a slab of Lindt 80%. If the thought of eating (dark) chocolate with wine doesn’t grab you, I’m not surprised. I was blown away. Those deep chocolate flavours in that Pinotage are teased out by the Lindt. The wine snobs seem to pooh-pooh the idea - and I have previously fought back (see comments)
Meanwhile, back to the Barista Pinotage I had tonight. Apparently it was hand-crafted by the same wine-maker, Bertus “Starbucks” Fourie, who cooked up the original coffee Diemersfontein Pinotage. And boy has he upped his game (IMHO). It’s a rich, strong flavourful blend with a delicious chocolate aroma and after-taste. Judging by my “Platteresque” poetic post, the alcohol levels were on the high side too. Yum.
