On Starbucks’s “Race Together”

With apologies to Yakov Smirnoff:

In Soviet America, coffee shop patronizes customers.

A cool place

I like this, even if I don’t drink coffee: “the Conservative Cafe.” The Crown Point, Indiana coffee shop is designed to be a counter to the trendy-liberal atmosphere of the Starbucks-style cafe. Personally, I’d love one of the “Zip It, Hippie” t-shirts.

Coffee, Enhancement, and the Enlightenment

This Wired post has some interesting ideas about the possible effect of future “enhancement” drugs and body modifications, particularly using an analogy with coffee and the Enlightenment.