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Entries for week beginning April 24, 2005

April 28, 2005

CIF

CIF

The Showcase stage at the Chicago Theatre Building.

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XM in the armrest

XM in the armrest

On board the Airtran plane, you can listen to XM Radio. Really quite a nifty idea -- *Much* better than the usual dreck you get on inflight "entertainment"

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iPod vending machine

iPod vending machine

Atlanta Airport.

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April 27, 2005

Planning my weekend

Planning my weekend

Off to Chicago tomorrow for the Chicago Improv Fest. Busy trying to work out what shows I want to see.

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Fun With Layout

Awww.. and they look so happy together.

April 26, 2005

RFC 2397: The "data" URL scheme

How have I missed this for so long? I can think of a lot of times I’ve wanted to generate images in the same chunk of code that’s generating the HTML.

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Sparklines in data: URIs in Python

Sparklines implemented in tiny amounts of Python. And how come I’d never heard of data URIs until now?

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April 24, 2005

Penguins going through Airport Security

Can’t say as I blame the TSA — Have you *seen* the Batman films?

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The Plague!

Fascinating and creepy bit of video, taken from the recent US Gov’t “Emergency” drill TOPOFF3. What the gov’t thinks cable news will look like after a bunch of terrrrist attacks.

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SUPPLIES!

Interesting new addition in OSX Tiger… On every “Print” dialog is a button marked “Supplies”

!http://groovymother.com/images/supplies.png 400×210 (Supplies)!

Clicking it drops you into the Apple Store page for your printer (for example, my HP Laserjet(The Apple Store (U.S.))), ready to give Apple some cash in exchange for more toner.

Fabulous time-saving innovation, or would-get-Microsoft-strung-up-if-they-tried-it tactic?

(Aside: The title of this post is a reference to a joke I loved as a kid, which is sadly too politically-incorrect in this day and age for me to consider posting here. I have no quandries, however, about


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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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