Any other news from 2013?

Did we really need Yet Another Best Places to Live Almanac Algorithm (YABPLAA)?

File under: fake news

Still doesn't prevent the coffee from tasting like paper. This is polishing the brass on the Titanic.

Recycling? Seriously? Reduce, reuse, recycle, and you put recycle at the top of the efficacy pyramid? As if all the additional materials extraction, processing, production by-products, excess packaging and shipping weight with each coffee serving can be dismissed if someone throws the service by-product away in the…

Coffee-flavored pinotage wines have been popular for years in South Africa under labels like "Barista". Look it up. This is old news.

Of course it gives energy. Energy is measured in calories. If I ate a tub of butter, I'd get a heck of a lot more energy.

What a waste of technology

How lazy do you have to be, really. That's always the question.

If it's about the best drinking experience possible, then why are you drinking it out of the materials they use for the birthday parties of four-year-olds?

Keep the blandness coming!

Wow. When I search Google for "used coffee grounds" and "compost", I only come up with 39 million matches. Thanks, Lifehacker, for making this secret more well known.

Lifehacker's 453rd incarnation of this post. You guys really must be running out of ideas.

Perfect is a myth

Never understood the appeal of a rotating subscription of beans, like the surprise in a Cracker Jack box, after you get a better sense of your likes and dislikes after the first few batches.

Because nothing says "delicious" like something that is squirted out of a pneumatic tube like a drive-thru bank teller.

There are few things as sad as a coffee xenophobe in a near-ubiquitious environment of much better coffee around the world. It's like we're 80-year-old ladies afraid of entering a coffeeshop without a supply of our favorite non-dairy creamer, so we have to lug around suitcases dedicated to our infantile fear of…

Ack. Without a discussion of grinders, beans, and the roast levels you use for each, this is weaksauce. It's like judging the best car based on its steering wheel.

Uh, no. That premise is absurd as saying connoisseurs only means ordering your Bordeaux in precise ratios of Cab Franc, Cab Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Malbec.

$30 to replace the free iPhone countdown timer plus a handful of blog posts? What a bargain!