Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning April 10, 2005

➠ April 16, 2005

Boston’s leading Jesus-crazy

Boston’s leading Jesus-crazy

As much a Boston landmark as the Citgo sign, this evangelical half-wit is a regular sight whenever there's a sporting event or concert. He's our version of London's Winner or Sinner bloke.

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➠ April 15, 2005

Schneier on Security: Mitigating Identity Theft

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier, explaining that “Identity Theft” is just a catchy name for the age-old problem of “fraud”, backed by banks and other data-gatherers acting in ways that hurt consumers.

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➠ April 14, 2005

That banner is new

That banner is new

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➠ April 13, 2005

Music Lab

Columbia University research project attempting to understand how people form their musical tastes. Free music downloads, too!

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Creative Archive Licence Group

The Beeb’s “Creative Archive” scheme launchs, with Channel 4 and the BFI also contributing. It’s early days, but this is a really exciting turn of events.

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➠ April 12, 2005

Round Two

Folks putting money into the Firefox extension community. Presumably they’re going to start selling extensions (or providing pay-for services) some time soon. Gorgeous Bryan Bell design too.

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Bisnation

The folks from Bis, one of my number-one all-time favourite bands of all-time, have reformed in a new band called “Data Panik”. 7” single on sale now. Hurrah!

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➠ April 11, 2005

Googlest.com - Making Your Site The Googlest Online!

The highest-paying Adsense keywords. Look forward to my new blog entry “Yahoo laser mortgages domain”.

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Unlicensed Poultry - Temporary Spy

Bostonfolks! Come see the 48 Hour Film that I was involved with (along with some of my vastly-talented friends). Tomorrow night at Kendall Square. Or if you can’t make that, we should have it up online some time this week.

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Saw this reviewed in Entertainment Weekly, and it sounds really interesting. Added to my Amazon wishlist for when I have some spare cash.

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Not particularly green, but definitely a card

Not particularly green, but definitely a card

This is what all the sweat, paperwork, and panic attacks lead up to: My "green" card.

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➠ April 10, 2005

Don't Go To Bed Angry | Ourmedia

The fabulous free storage space at the Internet Archive means that we now have a new, permanent URL for this fantastic clip from our wedding. TC Cheever & Cheryl Singleton, with Steve Gilbane on keyboards, improvise a song. Thems folks is talented.

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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.

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