The Clover coffee maker company has a Google Map to find locations where Clover-made coffee can be found. In New York, you can find them at Cafe Grumpy at 224 West 20th St.
The $11,000 Clover coffee maker brews one cup of coffee at a time using a method similar to a French Press, but with the ability to customize water volume and temperature per cup. The machine is programmable and has a network connection, so the machine can download brewing info. specific roasts. Check the video below for the Clover in action.
According to Wired Magazine, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks described the coffee by saying, "In my 25 years at Starbucks, the Clover machine unquestionably delivers the best cup of brewed coffee I have ever tasted." Schultz tried his first cup after seeing a line formed outside of Cafe Grumpy in Chelsea. The company later bought out the Coffee Equipment Company, which makes the Clover, and will be testing them in Starbucks coffee shops.
The Clover seems to have an almost cult-like following. I haven't had one yet, but you can bet I'll be making the trip to Chelsea this week to have one.
The folks at PES do some ridiculously fun stop motion animation short films and commercials. Check out the latest Western Spaghetti and Human Skateboard.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) tips the new save image feature in iPhone 2.0.
Error 9838 and phone stuck in emergency mode, temporarily inoperable. There are apparently major traffic issues today. Not surprised. After an hour and a half things seem to be restoring, although very slowly.
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Best Practices from The Center for Social Media at American University regarding fair use of online video:
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.
This is a guide to current acceptable practices, drawing on the actual activities of creators, as discussed among other places in the study Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video and backed by the judgment of a national panel of experts. It also draws, by way of analogy, upon the professional judgment and experience of documentary filmmakers, whose own code of best practices has been recognized throughout the film and television businesses.
Stockholm Multimedia User Group announce the winners in the Adobe AIR Browser War.
Jay-Z responds to Oasis' Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury.
Moo starts doing full sized business cards. Spendy, but sweet.
I spend a lot of time sketching interface ideas on paper. Typically I sketch wireframes and storyboards on graph paper, then redo the final documents in OmniGraffle. But lately, I've been using paper for more than just sketching. Now, after spending time sketching ideas and working out design issues, I start to do higher fidelity drawings on paper, scan them, post them to our system. We discuss and iterate, and the process repeats until we're happy, and I spend less time pushing pixels around.
As a result of this method of working, I've been wanting my graph paper to be more suitable to the way I work and the kinds of drawings I do. So I've come up with the different types of graph paper. You see here. You'll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values based on simple criteria using a two by two grid. We throw in a basic grid got anything else that might come up.
These pages are great for sketching, but also work well when producing high fidelity drawings. The title bar and grid lines are photo-safe, so they won't show up when you scan them into your computer. The thick black lines for boxes will show in scans and are 2px wide to match the weight of Pentel Sign Pens.
So if you're interested, find out more about Konigi Graph Paper or download these for your self.