I just put the finishing touches on the Weekend OS X Freeware Marathon (WOSXFM) on my other blog, FreewareFreak.
Direct links to the WOSXFM titles:
Inkscape - Freeware Open Source Cross Platform SVG Editor
Galerie - Freeware OS X Gallery Generator
FireStarter FX - Freeware OS X Advanced CD Burning
Every once in a while I stumble on an album that gets played, over and over again, at every opportunity.
Sigur Rós’s Takk is one of those albums. I highly, HIGHLY recommend it.
Following up on the Starbucks Fair Trade Challenge posted yesterday…
I stopped by the East Lansing Starbucks on my way home from work yesterday, hoping to get myself a cup of fair trade coffee. I made my way past the throngs of MSU students hard at work to the front counter, and waited patiently while some guy in front of me made some obvious and fairly pathetic attempts to flirt with the girl at the register.
(Normally I wouldn’t bother writing down a detail like this, but I’ll give you one line he said that made feel obligated to do so: “Some day I’ll be world famous!” Sure buddy.)
After Mr. World Famous decided to go wait for his $5 drink I finally got my chance.
Register girl (RG): “Hello, what can we get for you today?”
Me (me): “I was wondering if you have any fair trade coffee available.”
RG: *3 second blank stare* “Ummm… one second.”
(literally one second later)
RG: “I’m sorry, but we don’t have any today.”
Me: “That’s ok. I’ll just take a regular brew. Am I the first person to ask you this today?”
RG: “Yeah, why?”
Me: “Well, there’s an online ‘experiment’ going on to see if your company is actually abiding by its policies.” (please note that I was not trying to give this obvious student a hard time about the gigantic company they work for) “Starbucks policy says that they are obliged to serve fair trade coffee at any of their stores if requested.”
RG: “OH! Now I know what you mean! Yeah, we have fair trade coffee that we can brew for you in a french press.”
By this point she’d already given me my plain brew, and now I was being told that they do in fact have what I’d asked for in the first place. I politely thanked her for the information, told her she’d probably be hearing more about this in the near future, paid, and left.
So… mission accomplished? Not exactly. Abiding by the policy? Sort of.
Free mp3’s are cool. At least that’s what I’m told.
Courtesy of XOC, check out this complete cover of the Super Mario World (SNES) soundtrack, performed by him and him alone using a variety of instruments. Fantastic stuff.
Fellow blogspot blog green LA girl has an awesome challenge/contest going: Head to your local starbucks (just look under a rock if you can’t find one, the damn things swarm) and ask them to make you a cup of fair trade coffee. According to their own policy they are supposed to do so when requested, on any day of the week, whenever they are open (no restrictions is the point you should be getting here).
As you can probably expect the first reports coming back to them (via del.icio.us) aren’t encouraging. But don’t let that stop you. Do it anyway, and if you get looked at funny it’ll be that much worse for them in the end.
Validation: Starbucks corporate is sitting up and paying attention like the good lap dogs they are. At least they lady on the phone sounds like she was nice.
via Lifehacker
Filed under “Yet Another Disturbing Article About The United States That I Read From A Foreign News Service”.
500 U.S. physicists have signed a petition protesting recent changes to U.S. nuclear policy.
Who else but the Japanese. And no, that’s not really even a question.
I know what will be on my doorstep this Halloween!
My blog is worth $2,822.70.
How much is your blog worth?
Too bad this is the binary equivalent of Monopoly money.
Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS has been confirmed for a January 9th 2006 U.S. release date. I’ve been looking forward to this game since the first information came out, so check out the link below and you’ll probably understand why 
This isn’t a game. The best way it can be described is a music toy. Seriously.
Elecroplankton Gameplay Videos - Gamespot
via joystiq
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