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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Entries for May 2005
➠ May 31, 2005
Google Code: Summer of Code
Google offers $4,500 to students who work on Open Source projects over the summer.
➠ May 30, 2005
jwz - kissing the CD goodbye.
I strongly suspect that I’ve purchased my last CD rack. I’m busy making plans involving FLAC encoding, a 400Gb hard drive, and a mass of python code to rip my CDs one final time.
The 'Missing Words' Round
Script to automagically create “Have I Got News for You” style questions from BBC RSS feeds.
Lost Season 2 Teaser
Go to Oceanic-Air.com, use Hurley’s “lucky” numbers a couple of times, and see a brief teaser for the next season of Lost.
➠ May 28, 2005
TeeVee Archive - Lost Explained!
Lost as Infocom adventure game. Excellently funny. “You are lost in the jungle in a maze of twisty little paths, all alike.”
➠ May 24, 2005
➠ May 23, 2005
TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 1: The 'Intel Inside' chimes
The created of the “Intel” jingle was one of the folks behind the lederhosen & rubber chickens novelty romp “Bring Me Edelweiss”!
Projekt A-Ko
New band from former members of Urusei Yatsura. This makes me so utterly happy. There’re a couple of MP3s to download.
➠ May 22, 2005
Muine Music Player
Linux MP3 player which I’ve become increasingly fond-of. It’s beautifully simple, and Just Works.
Your constituency mailing list
Interesting attempt by mysociety to encourage internet discussion between MPs and constituents. Reminiscent of Tim Ireland’s work to get MPs blogging.
Fist of Fun, Series Two, Show Two
“Every year, the people of Shrewsbury keep their leftover pies for the Pie Man who collects them all together & puts them in a giant Pie Shell. The Piemaster whisks up all the pies and once the pies have been cooked together, the giant Pie Pie is eaten the feast day of St. Ian, the patron saint of pies.”
➠ May 20, 2005
➠ May 19, 2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
US trailer, featuring different footage from the UK one. Roll on October!
Das Keyboard
Keyboard with no labels on the keys — Which is a nice gimmick, but it looks like they’ve also put a lot of thought into the quality & clickiness of the keyboard. WANT!
CafePods: US service suspended
Damn, this sucks. My preferred coffee-supplier no longer ships to the US. The terrrrists have won.
Two flavors: Cheddar & More Cheddar
Following this, look forward to my 31 flavours Ice Cream store featuring "Vanilla", "More Vanilla", "Yet More Vanilla", "Very Vanilla", "None More Vanilla", "Suspiciously Vanilla-y" and "Bugger me backwards with a broomhandle... It's Vanilla!"
David Cross: Top Ten CD's That I Just Made Up (and accompanying made-up review excerpts) to listen to while skimming through some of the overwrought reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com
David Cross perfectly skewers the dreadful, dreadful prose and attitude of Pitchform album reviews… on Pitchfork.
➠ May 18, 2005
OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
Looks like a nice design, and the person behind this (Brad of LiveJournal/SixApart) has the clout to make a go at it.
This Might Be A Wiki
This is a fantastic example of a specialized-subject Wiki in action — They Might Be Giants discographies, lyrics, news, etc. updated by any fan who wants to.
City Of Somerville - Curtatone Hails State's Historic Green Line Decision
Hooray! A T-station within walking distance of our house.
➠ May 17, 2005
BBC NEWS | Scotland | New BBC weather map causes storm
Tediously predictable wah-wah-wah from the Scottish nationalists about the new BBC weather maps. Saw this one coming a mile off.
taint.org: Justice Bradley on patent law (1882)
“It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures.”
➠ May 16, 2005
Salon.com | How real is "24"?
Distilling the fiction from the crazy-fiction. Open up a socket and pipe this into your browser.
➠ May 14, 2005
Wallace and Gromit film trailer
How’d I miss this? Fuller trailer for the W&G film than the one on Apple’s site. Looks delightfully ridiculous, and true to form. I’m genuinely excited about this now.
Nickerblog: Reality
Fantastic blog entry from the man accused of having an affair with Cameron Diaz.
➠ May 13, 2005
The Daily SuDoku
Apparently, these are huge draws in UK newspapers. For the not-verbal-enough-for-crosswords set.
AutoStitch
Jeepers. Software to automagically stitch-together your photos to make panoramas. Gonna have to give this a try.
Windows OneCare Live
MS piss on Symantec’s chips a little more, as they move to offer a subscription-fee-based virus/spyware/firewall security package for folks who don’t know how to undo all the shit on their PC caused by lousy MS design.
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Can you tell that it's Liz yet?
Rolf Harris to paint official state portrait for the Queen’s 80th birthday. Awesome.
Outfoxed | Personalize your internet
Fantastic-looking Firefox extension which integrates a social network rating sites into your web browsing. Read the “Outfoxed in a Nutshell” to get insight into how it works.
➠ May 11, 2005
Secure Shell Shock
SSH’s “known_hosts” file could aid worm propogation. This page gives steps to reduce that risk.
➠ May 10, 2005
Armando Iannucci - That's enough entertainment, thanks
“As grown ups, we have to let the dream die. Our completist paradise is not going to happen. The technological explosion of choice has only alerted me to those areas where I now know I’m going to choose not to go.”
➠ May 9, 2005
SRAT: Self-referential multiple-choice test
Headfucklogicpuzzle. “19. The answer to this question is: (A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E”. Took me a while to solve, but it was fun.
➠ May 6, 2005
Bacon in a Blanket
OK, last cute puppy photo for now. Here's Bacon keeping warm in bed.
➠ May 5, 2005
Election Night
A tip of the hat to the Grauniad, whose excellent Election Blog has been continually entertaining in the run-up to election day, and is proving to be a considerably more informative and entertaining resource than the Beeb’s (thus-far sneaked-Mars-Bar-free) election night TV show.
And talking of the Beeb, ya boo and sucks to BBC America who this year aren’t bothering to show any election results. And why would they, when they’ve got this fine and highly up-to-date line-up for the night:
!http://groovymother.com/images/electionnight.png 301×134 (Benny Hill and Python)!
Ear to Tail
Bacon has perfected the art of taking up as much space on the bed as possible.
➠ May 3, 2005
➠ May 2, 2005
Dogster :: Bacon
What Joy did with her weekend while I was away — Created a “Dogster” page for Bacon.
➠ May 1, 2005
Sweet’n’Low and Mustard in one convenient tray
At the Golden Apple diner, Lincoln & Southport, Chicago. Choose wisely.
About This Site
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.