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Entries for week beginning October 30, 2005

November 5, 2005

Warnock's Dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Warnock’s Dilemma”, named for its progenitor Bryan Warnock, points out that a lack of response to a posting on a mailing list, Usenet newsgroup, or Web forum does not necessarily imply that no one is interested in the topic.

mplayerplug-in

The best video plugin for Linux I’ve found. Plays Quicktime, Windows Media and Real Video without complaint, hiccup, or browser crash.

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Off The Telly

Immensely thorough and thoughtful UK TV reviews and history. Quality stuff.

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Tab Sidebar

Interesting twist on tabbed browsing for Firefox 1.5 — Displays screenshots of each tab in the sidebar.

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November 4, 2005

Tags.App

Tags solution for MovableType. I’m taking this for a bit of a roadtest at the moment.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Get paid for grunt-work that’s too complex for computers to deal with. Awesome name, and further proof that Amazon is really competing with Google, not buy.com.

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10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers

Excellent list from David Pogue. “We may be the bane of your existence, but we’re also the reason for it; you’re stuck with us. We’ve got our credit cards ready - now show us some love.”

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Television Without Pity > The Apprentice > Recaps & Extras > Season 4 Episode 7

Recaplet of last night’s Apprentice, the boardroom of which was one of the finest, most superbly bizarre and duck-behind-a-cushionly cringemaking bits of television ever.

November 2, 2005

Cool Tool: Poly Business Card Book

Oooh, I fancy one of these, if only for the obsessive-compulsive collector part of me.

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YackPack

Hrmm… Not sure about this one. All the social awkwardness of leaving voicemails, with the technical complexity of trying to get a microphone working on your PC.

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Producing Open Source Software

Free ebook on the hows and wherefores of running an open source project, from someone who’s been round the block a couple of times.

Flight Patterns

Some beautiful visualizations generated from FAA data of all flights over the USA one day in March.

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October 31, 2005

blummy - The bookmarklet management bookmarklet

Rather intriguing — An attractive UI for bookmarklets.

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Darwin's Ltd.

Attention Cantabrigians. Darwin’s has a new-ish store in Inman Square. Rather sadly, the highlight of my day at an old job was getting to Darwin’s for one of their superbly flavourful sandwiches.

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Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Sony are now using Windows vulnerabilities to hide DRM software on Windows PCs so that users can’t uninstall them. Fuckers.

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hackdiary: The BBC's programme catalogue (on Rails)

This has the potential to be fantastic, and knock IMDB into a cocked-hat for UK telly info.

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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.