I have just come across the perfect solution for putting a coffee shop in our library. I was thinking perhaps we could replace the entire lounge area with one of these. A Javabot. An automated walk-in coffee maker the size of a coffee shop where you can create your own blend, set your own roasting level, and even dictate the temperature of the water. Gizmag (click for pictures) writes:

The system is part of the experience because the coffee system runs throughout the shop It’s the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine. Customers can choose from any blend of seven different beans and every aspect of the process is controlled.

HT: Slashdot: The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee

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We’re hurled at rocket speed down a rabbit hole of action and suspense. Run, Dick, Run! See Spot Run! Run and Jump! Run, Run, Run! Run, Jump, Run! Even the most agile adrenaline jockeys will find it hard to maintain the pace. The authors ask us to confront the terrifying question: Who Is It? Just when one can bear no more, they wisely divert with the chick lit hijinks of “Something Pretty,” but any returned sense of safety is just a will-of-the-wisp as one is again forced to ask the horrible: ”Where Is Sally?” Do you really want to know?

From Blogging For A Good Book, a blog of the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia, in a gelastically funny review of this classic of children’s books that everyone my age remembers reading.

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