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- The Year of Coffee Blog
- Exactly what the web was made for. This guy posts a photo of every cup of coffee he drinks. Very inspiring indeed.
- Barista Laments
- A snarky barista blogs about the behind-the-scenes. Amazing she hasn't been dooced yet.
- Starbucks Gossip
- Who knew. Media-watching maven Jim Romenesko keeps an excellent blog about Starbucks and everything related to it.
- Starbucks Everywhere
- This guy is a bit of an inspiration to us and makes us feel like we're not that insane. He plans to visit every Starbucks in the world.
- Every Starbucks Drink
- A list of every drink at Starbucks. Can someone please figure out the number of possible permutations for us?
- Starbucks Turns Its Promotional Muscle Towards Films
- For advertising films in store, the company gets a piece of just about everything: "an undisclosed percentage of all box office sales, merchandise sales, TV revenues and soundtrack and DVD sales -- even from non-Starbucks retail locations."
- David Letterman has Starbucks coffee pumped directly to his desk
- Coffee is sent from the Starbucks across the street and down the block via 550 feet of clear plastic tubing connected to a spigot at his desk.
- Coffee Tip
- 'Instead of taking a prepackaged bag of coffee from the display, ask for a one pound bag of whole bean espresso from the "bullet bag." This is the five pound silver bag the baristas use to make the coffee, and its fresher and taste dramatically better.'
- Schwarzenegger leaves a $4 tip for a $1.85 decaf doppio espresso macchiato
- Artist Kim-Joon's tribute to Starbucks
- Parental discretion advised.
- Story behind the red cup
- A member of Starbucks's in-house design team writes about the Red Cup and how they almost ruined the promotion.
- LiveJournal Barista Community
- Take a peek into their secret lair.
- The Red Cup
- Starbucks launches a new holiday-themed site. It's just a bunch of tips and games. Well-designed, though.
- Starbucks in a Day - Beijing Version
- This guy plans to visit all Starbucks in Beijing in one day. He's already done Shanghai.
- How much starbucks is fatal?
- Calculator into which you enter your weight and your favorite caffeinated beverage and it will tell you how many drinks you need to take before dropping dead.
- For those of you watching your weight...
- Via Hungry Girl: "Thanks to their "light" line of frozen frappes, you can enjoy a frozen treat at Starbucks, sans guilt."
- Coffe shop near Alito's chambers had named coffe after him
- "Alito's clerks, who drop in every morning to buy coffee, spent weeks experimenting with various blends and came up with a mixture the judge loved: New Guinea, Java, Celebes and expresso beans. The blend was so good, the store put Alito's name on signs ov
- Siren Song featured on Liberty Belles
- "To the contrary of those who argue that Starbucks has homogenized and commercialized the coffeeshop experience, I say that is precisely Starbucks’ charm!"
- Siren Song featured on DCFUD
- "Which just goes to prove that bitching about Starbucks does not make you alternative. But really liking them does make you intriguingly eccentric."
- USAT: Starbucks stirs things up with a God quote on cups
- "Coffee drinkers could get a spiritual jolt with their java in the spring when Starbucks begins putting a God-filled quote from the Rev. Rick Warren, author of the mega-selling The Purpose-Driven Life, on its cups."
- Starbucks in the Philippines offers a frappuccino with jelly cubes
- Siren Song - An incredible waste of time wherein Jacinda and Jerry visit every Starbucks in Washington, D.C.
- A new project I'm doing for no good reason. I hope you'll check it out, follow our progress, and comment on your favorite stores. If you have a blog, a mention and a link would be very very appreciated!
- Trademark squatter blocks Starbucks' entry to Russia
- Sergei Zuykov, who claims to own roughly 300 trademarks in addition to Starbucks, is merely the best known of what trademark lawyers say are a dozen or so individuals and companies active in hoarding brand names and patents in Russia.
- The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl
- A great feminist essay on the Starbucks Logo, Ariel, and the history of sirens/mermaids. "It's as if Disney set out systematically to obliterate the traditional mermaid mythos."
- 7 reasons why Starbucks gets it right every time
- This response was precipitated by the question "So, Dana, are you a corporate coffee drinker?" Meaning, do I get my beans from the big green machine that is Starbucks, as if it were somehow a black mark on my existence that I still dig Starbucks.
- The Evolution of the Starbucks Logo
- M.C. Escher's Starbucks
- Caramel Macchiato
- The super secret recipe for a Starbucks Caramel Macchiato
- Tallahassee Democrat | 09/29/2005 | Starbucks: our secular sanctuary
- "Starbucks is a metaphor for something that went missing in the culture and that the Seattle-based company seems to have found. Coffee isn't the thing; it's merely a road sign on the human map."
- Starbucks Drinks Simplified (kinda)
- Order yourself a half-caf short one-pump ristretto 140-degree caramel macchiato
