We made some FAIL mugs:

You might be able to order your own here.

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Peliom sends in this observation about Philz:

I got the “fire alarm” coffee from philz this AM

sooooo good!

certain coffees I call “page turners” becaues I take a sip and then I have to take another sip, and on and on

just like a book I can’t put down

CC by-nc Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid

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At the Can’t Fail Cafe in Emeryville there’s a super yummy milkshake made with guinness stout, chocolate ice cream, and espresso. I think they gave it the perfect name.

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OK, we can now add LASER to the list of coffee-prep methods that we need for our taste test..

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I just got this coffee gizmo called the Aerobie Aeropress. It’s made by the same company that makes those frisbees that always get stuck in trees.

It’s basically a french press with a filter, but unlike a french press, it takes only a few seconds to clean, it uses a paper filter so your coffee isn’t full of silt, and it’s made out of cheap plastic. They recommend using a ton of grounds and only brewing the coffee for ten seconds with not-so-hot water, which underextracts the beans and makes it insanely strong without being bitter. I’ve had two cups and now I think I can see through time!

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Chicken John and friends are working on a coffee-ground powered pickup truck!

Right now the truck runs off hydrogen gas (Wood Gas) produced by gassifying wood pellets, but when Chicken John gets $5000 for a pelletizer, it will run off coffee grounds. Check out the pics!

We also shot a couple videos of us driving from Dolores Park to Ritual. After we get started on gas, Chicken shuts off the fuel pump and we start running on wood. The second video has a few details of how the engine works..

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While drinking coffee at Ritual and waiting around for the Wood-Powered Truck, we came up with a solution to Ritual’s weekend overcrowding:

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The last few weekends I’ve been waking up and thinking “man, I wish I had a pancake robot.”

I’m not sure how this robot would look, but I am sure about the user interface…press a button, five minutes later: pancakes. Then dump a few of the robot parts into the dishwasher (that part is important. I don’t want to be cleaning up a bunch of stuff on my weekend). Ideally the pancake robot would be hooked up the the water system and also our municipal supply of pancake mix. Syrup and butter I would do myself….I guess I’m old fashioned that way.

Link to midwestern pancake robot story.

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If Web 2.0 was a coffee shop, it would be Axis Cafe. It’s everything you want in a post-boom cafe: good coffee, comfy couches, yummy sammiches, a huge outdoor patio, free wireless, and, of course, a fireplace!

The wireless here is really interesting.. It’s done by a company called PlaceSite. The wireless is free, but the first time you load a webpage, you get taken to a portal page. The portal shows you who else in the cafe using the wireless node and gives you a cafe-specific bulletin board and chat. Here’s Parker, one of the guys behind PlaceSite:

Check this place out:

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