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“A car once crashed through the exterior wall of the building. You know what stopped it? The change machine. That’s how well secured it is. Leave it alone.”
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Getting to sit in today and watch daytime TV, I see a trend:
Judge Judy, Judge Hatchett, Judge Joe Brown, The People’s Court, Divorce Court, and Texas Justice!
What happened to the good old days, when you solved your problems on daytime TV by knocking seven shades of shit out of each other?
Making creating and downloading torrents a smidge more point-and-click stupid. Awesome.
“Imagine what higher-ups at the Post must have thought when focus-group participants declared they wouldn’t accept a Washington Post subscription even if it were free. The main reason (and I’m not making this up): They didn’t like the idea of old newspapers piling up in their houses.”
I’ve been playing around with “Delicious Library”, importing media that’s been lying around in boxes in my office. Take a nosey, whydontcha?
CNet encourage you to go off the beaten track and see what bloggers are saying about their stories. Nice!
Having spent the last 6 months wrangling with BizTalk, this made me chuckle heartily.
“And at number eight, the mighty Russ Abbot with his version of Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’.”
Silly little kewl thing that amused me today. Playing an MP3 by the Japanese bubblegum-punk pop-band that I know as Shonen Knife, and having it appear in my Audioscrobbler profile as ’”少年ナイフ”(Audioscrobbler :: Artist :: 少年ナイフ :: Statistics)’:http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95.
I look forward to seeing how badly MovableType and RSS readers mangle this entry!
No, I did no know that. What a fabulously useful and completely unlearnable feature.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.
