August 31, 2007
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Alfred Peet — founder of Peet’s Coffee, grandfather of specialty coffee in the U.S. — died this week. Mr. Peet opened his coffee shop at the corner of Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, California in 1966, and awakened the American … Continue reading
August 30, 2007
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Hey, that’s pretty savvy for Wall Street. TheStreet.com’s Eileen Gunn takes a peek at Fair Trade — and Fair Trade coffee, in particular. For a publication that’s altogether dedicated to Free Trade it’s a remarkably balanced, and only remotely snarky … Continue reading
August 29, 2007
by deCadmus
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In a coffee shop, and with her infant daughter snoozing at her elbow, a single mom — recently divorced, and struggling to make ends meet — writes a story about a boy wizard and an enchanted school. She writes in … Continue reading
August 29, 2007
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Bloggle’s readership has been doubling about every other month for a while now. Recently it’s started to double every other week, which I find pretty amazing, and gratifying. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that … Continue reading
August 27, 2007
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Lokesh Dhakar had already made something of a name for himself among web builders for his very spiffy Lightbox image manipulation scripts — scripts which, by the way, drive many of the the galleries and slide shows that you’ll find … Continue reading
August 26, 2007
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It’s remarkable the ways the Internet has transformed us. We’ve been quietly beguiled by technology that doesn’t look or feel like, well… like technology. We’re connected — inexorably, insidiously connected — in ways that just a few years ago we … Continue reading
August 24, 2007
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What’s not to love about Steve Wozniak? Think of the steps that a human being has to do to make a cup of coffee and you have covered basically 10, 20 years of your lifetime just to learn it. So … Continue reading
August 23, 2007
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I resolve to stop collecting coffee memorabilia. ‘Cause the repercussions are daunting — Barbara and Lowell Shindler’s coffee cup runneth over. The couple, who have a coffee-distributing business, have turned the basement of their Roslyn home into something of a … Continue reading