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Starbucks Typewriter Guy Answers Our Burning Questions

As you may remember, yesterday, we put up a post poking fun at this then-stranger who had been photographed using a typewriter in Starbucks by one of his fellow students. Cries of rage soon followed from both sympathisers and opponents alike. This man’s typewriter and our mocking tone struck a chord. For some of you, a very deep, perhaps-could-be-helped-with-therapy chord.

13 March 2013

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Look At This Dude Using His Typewriter In A Starbucks

We’ve already been plenty vocal on our opinions of people who use cafes as their personal office. But this guy — this cretin — makes those non-ordering, space-consuming table squatters look like the saints of Starbucks — and this is their new pope.

7 December 2012

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Starbucks Is Charging $450 For A Metal Gift Card To Buy Coffee-Flavoured Water

Starbucks, purveyor of coffee-flavored water, builder of coffee-scented corner stores and shelter for no coffee drinking Wi-Fi leeches, has a new shtick: a premium gift card. It’s made of steel! It’s ‘specially etched’! And it’s a super, limited edition that inanely costs $US450.

13 January 2012

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These Should Be The Real Logos Of Nokia, Starbucks, Playboy And More

I love the alternate-reality logo work by svenska designern Viktor Hertz. After his first series, he’s back with a new batch of Honest Logos, even better than the first. My favorites: Nokia, Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.

14 August 2011

News

Starbucks Experiment Takes A Turn For The Weird

What happens when a social experiment gets socially experimented on? Jonathan Stark (no relation to Ironman) started a social experiment (which is not a PR stunt) wherein he put his Starbucks Coffee card up for grabs.

10 August 2011

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Is Jonathan’s Starbucks Card A Slick Marketing Campaign?

You know that Starbuck’s pay-it-forward idea hatched by Jonathan Stark? The one where you buy a coffee with a card and add money for the next person. Well, it may be a viral marketing campaign, not some feel-good social experiment.

15 June 2011

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Now Android Users Can Pay For Macchiatos With An App

Joining the iPhone app, Starbucks now allows customers to pay for their beverages and calorie-laden baked goods with a QR code-creating app. It only works on Android 2.1+, and in the 6800 US stores that support phone payments. [Android via Engadget]

10 February 2011

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Starbucks iPhone Payment App Scammed By Screenshot

Oh hey, you know that new whiz-bang app Starbucks has for paying with your iPhone? Well, apparently the barcode it produces stays the same every time, meaning that a sneakily procured screenshot can net you infinite coffee (approx. a Trenta’s worth) on someone else’s tab. [The Register]

19 January 2011

Mobile

Pay For Your Starbucks Addiction By Waving Your Mobile Phone

Earlier today I guzzled down not one, but two of those gigantic new Starbucks Trenta cups full of iced tea. Had I waited a bit, I could’ve paid for those drinks by waving my mobile phone.

18 January 2011

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The New Starbucks Trenta Cup Is Bigger Than Your Stomach

To satisfy the unquenchable gullets of America’s brand-name coffee drinkers, Starbucks will introduce a 916ml Trenta cup. That’s more than the average capacity of the human stomach, and enough caffeine to stand in for a defibrillator.

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