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Transmogrified: . 69 bloggers have joined and posted their experiences about 89 challenges. (del.icio.us feed here) October 25, 05: Starbucks sends email communication to all its US stores reminding them about the "coffee press on request" policy. ( Siel's post ). I am really impressed with the local Starbucks. I went there on the 24th and asked for fair trade again. This time there was no problem, the barista promptly told me to wait for a few minutes and I was able to get my cup of fair trade coffee without (via Cosmos)
[green LA girl] Starbucks Challenge Awards!: And even if you're not "challenging" any more because your store's passed the test, we hope you'll ask for fair trade coffee every time you go to Starbucks. After all, Starbucks says that if consumers demand it, they'll make fair trade coffee more easily avaliable -- though as of now, we question how Starbucks is measuring this demand....
[Chutry.wordherders.net] the chutry experiment: Instead, I've been following Darren's IMDB-inspired example of trying to list my top 15 films of the last 15 years. My list isn't done yet, but while I was surfing IMDB, I came across news that Michael Winterbottom, who directed Code 64 (which made the long list), is currently working on The Road to Guantánamo, a TV movie about the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
[Wpacouncil.org] The Chutry Experiment | Council of Writing Program Administrators: I didn't intend to see David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (IMDB) until I read Girish's favorable comments about the film (I think the film was poorly marketed, but that's a rant for another day), and like him, I think it's a smart film that uses genre conventions in innovative ways to reflect on concepts such as America's myth of self-renewal and on the American Dream in general, as well as complicated questions about human identity (k-punk's treatment of genre is good here).
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