Which fork is which?

While serving up our coffee cake this morning (with coffee of course), my husband and I debated over the difference between a salad fork and dessert fork. I did some google searching and found the coolest web site that identifies more utensils you ever thought possible. No, really. If you sat down invented pieces, you wouldn't get all of them listed here. http://www.replacements.com/piecetype/flat_piece.htm

Speaking of coffee, our coffee maker died. If you run any two appliances simultaneously on this one outlet, it trips. J.T. was making coffee while I was nuking water and bang - trip. The coffee maker came online, but the on/off button didn't do anything. Not much to troubleshoot: it's dead Jim. Naturally our espresso maker is acting up as well but I won't go into that right now. At least it's producing coffee.

Based on the product comparison from Cook's Illustrated December 2003, we're thinking of a vacuum style machine over the drip. Black & Decker has an attractive product. Actually, it's ugly, but the performance was solid according to Cook's. I toured the mall yesterday and neither Macy's nor William-Sonoma carried a vacuum coffee maker. How weird. I thought I saw one before at Starbucks (they're unique looking, kind of bulbous), but I don't see it on the web site. If the vacuum style coffee maker is so superior, why can't I find any in the stores??