Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Caffeine and Dehydration: Myth or Fact?

It has long been thought that coffee and other caffeine-containing beverages are dehydrating and don’t count toward your daily fluid intake. Most of us know that caffeine is a diuretic (it makes us have to go pee), but does it deplete our bodily fluids?

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Starbucks to give away weekly music picks on iTunes

From Ars Technica:

Each Tuesday, Starbucks employees will hand out cards to customers, allowing them to download the selected single of the week. This could range from music by the ever-current Counting Crows, to Carly Simon, Adele, Sia, Hilary McRae, "and many more," according to the company. The songs will be "hand-picked by the Starbucks Entertainment team" (I bet that's a fun group to go drinking with), and customers will have 60 days to download the song for free.

The last promotion took place in October of last year and featured a Song of the Day for each day of the month. Starbucks says that this resulted in over 6 million downloads. Neither Starbucks nor Apple acknowledged whether there is an ending date to the current "Pick of the Week" promotion, but Starbucks appears to be confident that free music will bring in more customers.