Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning March 26, 2006

➠ April 1, 2006

NBC.com > The Office > The More You Know

Some excellent Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office. I fast forwarded right past the one in Thursday’s episode, because I figured it was a genuine “The More You Know” segment. Luckily, Joy got me to skip back.

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FlickCentral: What's with all the CATS?!

Superb AprilFool from Flickr — The “interesting” photo pages are only showing kittens. Extra points for respecting users’ timezones, so the hack only goes into effect for the 24 hours that is April 1st for you!

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Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks.

Hells yeah! “A list of things which do not actually constitue a valid April Fools’ Day joke”

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TeeVeePedia

TeeVee.org’s April Fools site is superb. There’s a lot of love gone into this.

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➠ March 31, 2006

Somerville has a Dog Park

Somerville has a Dog Park

Until very recently, there was not a single place in the City of Somerville (population ~77,000) where you could let your dog off-leash. Thankfully this has now changed, with the just-opened dog run on Nunziato Field. Here's some of the cheerful dogs that were gallavanting round there when we took Bacon down this evening.

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Atom 1.0 enabled

My Atom feeds now conform to RFC 4287. They’ve actually been ready since the “proposed standard” document was published nearly nine months ago, but I’ve held off switching over to them until most feedreaders supported it. Where “most” in my mind was defined as Bloglines.

Unfortunately, Bloglines still borks over some of it, and is barely maintained these days. But most sane feedreaders (like those whacky kids in Redmond) are now well up to speed, so the switch has been thrown. Enjoy my curly quotation marks in all their unambiguous glory!

My old Atom 0.3 feed will continue to be published at http://groovymother.com/atom03.xml. Feel free to use it if Atom 1.0 is out of your reach. It’ll probably drop down in features (such as <content>) in a few months time as I try to retire it (like I did to RSS two years ago(groovy mother :: Good(?) Housekeeping))

Any problems, do please let me know.

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nanocolo iPod Linux colocation

April 1st has come early this year, it seems.

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➠ March 30, 2006

Daversy

“Daversy is a source control tool for relational databases.” Man, something like this has been needed for years.

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iGoatse. the new skin for your iPod

Bad, wrong, and awesome.

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➠ March 29, 2006

Batman Onomatopeyas

A collection of the “Thwack”-style graphics from the 60s Batman TV show.

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No More 'Development' for Hurwitz - Creator's decision may spell end of series - Zap2it

Hopes for a return of Arrested Development are dashed. No worries — It ended on such a pitch-perfect note that I almost don’t want them to return for fear of pissing on their legacy.

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XScreenSaver

jwz’s awesome screensaver collection is now available for OSX. Windows users are still SOL. “There is no Windows version of xscreensaver, and there never will be. Please stop asking. Microsoft killed my company, and I hold a personal grudge.”

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Bacon guards his squeakyball

Bacon guards his squeakyball

Don't you dare try and steal it from him, or he'll viciously roll his eyes, yawn and ignore you.

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➠ March 28, 2006

Safely install software in a virtual layer - Lifehacker

This looks handy. Install Windows applications into isolated silos so you can try them and uninstall them without leaving debris all over your hard drive and registry.

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ABC's "Extreme" Exploitation

Got multiple kids with Downs Syndrome? Victim of hate crime? Then ABC would love you exploit your pain for ratings. Cynical fucks.

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Anil Dash: A Culture of Criticism

Good post from Anil, that is quite appropriate to a little side-project I’m going to be taking on for Beantown web types.

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➠ March 27, 2006

Next-Gen DVDs' Blurry Picture

BusinessWeek article on the troubles facing early adopters of HD-DVD & Blu-Ray. I reckon Comcast & DirecTv are going to win the battle to bring High Def movies into peoples’ homes. The days of shiny discs are drawing to a close.

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Videora TiVo Converter

Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.

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RSSBus

These guys were presenting at ETech. It has to be said, I’m still thoroughly flummoxed as to what problem they think their technology is solving. Seems like a horrible bandwagon-jumping to me.

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➠ March 26, 2006

www.myspace.com/wigwamrock

Betty Boo & Alexfromblur’s new single. Hot damn, it’s ridiculously catchy and smashing.

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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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