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Six pack of Duff, or Flaming Moes in a can
Any true Simpsons fan who enjoys a good cocktail upon occasion has dreamed of one day drinking a can of Duff beer, the official beer of Springfield. More effete Homer-o-philes might eschew a pedestrian drink such as Duff for the more sophisticated cocktail, the Flaming Moe, the signature beverage of...
Tags: Cocktail, Beer, Beverage, England, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-07-16
Pic: Drink up at The Progress Bar
While not a drinker myself, I could certainly see the ironic (and geek-centric) appeal of a watering hole like this one. by Jay Garmon
Tags: Beverage, Entrepreneurship, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-07-10
CBS acquires CNET Networks
As Larry Dignan said in his blog this morning over on our sister site ZDNet: "Nothing like scanning the headlines and finding out your parent company has been acquired." Our parent company, CNET Networks, was just acquired by CBS. I don't...
Tags: CNET Networks Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., Professional Development, Food & Beverage, Blogging, Career, Manufacturing, Internet, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2008-05-15
Onsite IT consulting: Do you charge by the hour or per day?
As I've mentioned before, I don't go onsite very often; I do almost all my IT consulting work from my home office via the Internet. Some of my clients I have never even meet in person -- one of whom is right across Puget Sound in Seattle! ...
Tags: Information Technology, Client, Consulting, Food & Beverage, Keyboards, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Hardware, Peripherals, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Finance, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2008-05-12
Geek Trivia: Everything old is new (Coke) again
According to conventional wisdom, the secret formula for Coca-Cola is amongst the most prized and inscrutable mysteries of modern food science. Only the most privileged executives and researchers of The Coca-Cola Company are privy to its exact formulation. So irreplaceable is their access, these anointed individuals must never travel together...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Formula, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-05-06
Taking it to the ... Web. Starbucks wants your ideas.
Starbucks understands that consumers talk in a myriad of ways. And one of them is through feedback. Oh sure, they have had comment cards in their stores forever. Have you ever filled one out? Have you ever seen someone fill one out? As...
Tags: Web, Idea, Customer, Starbucks Corp., Food & Beverage, Portals, Marketing Research, Sales Tools, Manufacturing, Internet, Marketing, Sales, Tricia Liebert
Blog posts 2008-04-16
Geek Trivia: Contest(ed) winners
If one definition of insanity is to try the same action over and over yet hope for different results, then Pepsi marketers might be able to defend a claim that their cola is the most insane soft drink on the planet. Why? Because Pepsi is still running promotional contests to...
Tags: PepsiCo, Sea Launch, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-04-01
Biofuel start-up to make ethanol at $1 a gallon
Coskata, a firm from Illinois, promises to produce ethanol for less than $1 per gallon from a process that uses bacteria for ethanol generation from organic material. An excerpt from Wired: "It's not five years away, it's not 10 years away. It's affordable, and it's now,"...
Tags: Production, Discovery, Scientist, Corn, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Manufacturing, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2008-01-28
Photos: A Googleplex grows in D.C.
The big eco-friendly office in Washington comes with catered food, meeting rooms with quirky names, and weekly "Rock Band" sessions. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, google, buildings, green, Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2008-01-16
Photos: Airplane recycling taking off
Bit by bit, dead aircraft leave desert graveyards for use in making homes, furniture, and food cans. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, airplanes, recycling, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2008-01-15
Getting Ready for Christmas
I don’t know what it is like in other parts of the world but here in the sunny south of the UK it would appear that Christmas is on its way, whether we want it or not. Christmas used to be a season of peace and goodwill to all...
Tags: Christmas, Food & Beverage, Team Management, Manufacturing, Management, Jeff Dray
Blog posts 2007-12-12
Images: MIT's stackable electric car
The City Car is a proposed two-seater powered by lithium-ion batteries that would stack much like a grocery cart. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, electric cars, mit, TechRepublic Inc., Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, City Car, Food & Beverage, Engineering, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2007-11-05
Roomba or Doomba?
It has been a while since I posted.  The project I was on lost funding so I have been spending my days on Monster.com.  But, now I sit and wait as my security clearance is being processed.  It should be done any day now. While I have been home these...
Tags: Team, Robot, iRobot Roomba, Landmine, Roomba, Janitor-ba, Robots, Team Management, Food & Beverage, Emerging Technologies, Management, Manufacturing, Rebecca Ward
Blog posts 2007-10-24
Intelligent carts alert shoppers of junk food overload
Most of the time, technology is very beneficial, especially when it saves you time (online shopping vs. hours at the mall), energy (the Roomba vs. the push-it-yourself vacuum), and money (digital cameras vs. spending tons of money on film and photo processing). However, there are times when...
Tags: Food, Shopping Cart, Food & Beverage, Scanners, Manufacturing, Hardware, Peripherals, Sonja Thompson
Blog posts 2007-10-12
Five ways to make a good impression in your new job
You're starting a new job, and you're understandably eager to make a good impression on your boss and your colleagues. Since first impressions are so important - for right or wrong that first impression can determine how you're perceived for the rest of your days with the company - take...
Tags: Job, Bottom Line, Impression, Recruitment & Selection, Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2007-10-11
Excising Alone-in-the-World syndrome
There's an epidemic happening and it must be stopped. I call it the Alone-in-the-World AITW syndrome. The main symptom is the inability to understand that one's actions affect others. For example, have you ever been in a slow-moving lane of traffic only to discover the reason for the delay is...
Tags: Syndrome, Change, AITW, Food & Beverage, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Branding, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Toni Bowers
Blog posts 2007-10-09
19 things to worry about when traveling on business
Most of this week I'll be visiting a client of mine out of town. I don't expect to have much free time there, even in the evenings -- so I thought I'd better get my weekly post here done early. And what better topic to write...
Tags: Flight, Coffee, Beverage, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2007-10-07
Caffeine anyone?
At the risk of stating the obvious, caffeine addiction is something well understood by the IT professionals and gurus reading the IT News Digest blog on TechRepublic. It is the absolutely essential stimulant necessary for proper functioning, especially when frantically fixing NOC outages or the million and...
Tags: Information Technology, PepsiCo, Beverage, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-07-08
What do coffee, soap, donuts, and sunflower seeds have in common?
In the near future, the answer will be caffeine. A North Carolina R&D company has come up with a way to embed caffeine into donuts in such a way that the caffeine doesn't hit the tongue's "bitter" receptors. In a welcome move for caffeiholics, the firm claims that...
Tags: Coffee, Shower, North Carolina R&D Company, Food & Beverage, Servers, Manufacturing, Hardware, Andy Moon
Blog posts 2007-06-13
Secret to cloaking devices, teleporters discovered--it's coffee!
StarTrek.com has finally revealed the secret behind the Klingons' cloaking device technology, as well as the Federation's vaunted transporters--a good cup o' joe. You can buy a pair of thermo-sensitive mugs that mimic these two iconic sci-fi effects whenever you fill them with a sufficiently hot beverage. The Klingon Bird...
Tags: StarTrek.com, Food & Beverage, Programming Languages, Java, Manufacturing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-03-20


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