Bloggasm » Anti-Starbucks filmmakers hijack the coffee company’s own Twitter marketing campaign
http://bloggasm.com/anti-starbucks-filmmakers-hijack-the-coffee-companys-own-twitter-marketing-campaign
Starbucks Interactive Cup™ Brewer
http://www.starbucks.com/business/icup.html
They've got one of these at Google Ann Arbor. Kind of fascinating, seems like it should be evil. But, it doesn't appear to use pods, rather it grinds the beans on demand. The result is not entirely awful.
Skip the Coffee? What’s Money for, Anyway? - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/mutfund/08essay.html?ei=5087&em=&en=def701283bd90c9e&ex=1160452800
"A happier life calls for a little grasshopper with your ant."
Improv Everywhere Mission: The Moebius
http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=30
"On Saturday, March 22, 2003 Improv Everywhere agents created a living moebius strip in the Astor Place Starbucks. Seven undercover agents meticulously repeated a five-minute slice of time for twelve consecutive repetitions."
DoubleShot Coffee To Customers: Mistook Us For Starbucks? You're An Idiot. - Consumerist
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/doubleshot-coffee/doubleshot-coffee-to-customers-mistook-us-for-starbucks-youre-an-idiot-165459.php
"I vehemently apologize for the confusion and ask you to please not come in here anymore because stupid people annoy me..."
Starbucks Economics - Solving the mystery of the elusive "short" cappuccino. By Tim Harford
http://www.slate.com/id/2133754
"They will serve you a better, stronger cappuccino if you want one, and they will charge you less for it."
pri_starbucks_grumpy.mov (video/quicktime Object)
http://www.themreps.com/v1/movies/backyard/robPritts/pri_starbucks_grumpy.mov
Great stuff... although, I think I'd've thrown the bell even after I'd had my morning fix.
Grounds For Your Garden: Starbucks is doing a lot of things right
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/04/18/115530.php
"Turns out Starbucks is giving anyone who asks, at any of their zillions of stores around the world, bags of used coffee grounds to use in the garden."