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Entries for week beginning May 7, 2006
➠ May 13, 2006
Cybermen are Human 2.0? (plasticbag.org)
Quality silly Tom Coates post suitable for that popular cross-section of humanity: Dr Who fans who blog bitching about “Web 2.0”.
BBC SPORT | Football | Scottish Cups | Hearts 1-1 Gretna (4-2 on pens)
Rawk! Hearts qualify for the Champions League, then a week later win the Scottish Cup.
➠ May 12, 2006
Spice Up Your mini
Custom paint jobs for your Mac mini. I quite fancy getting the “retro” (begith with six-colour Apple logo) one.
gladwell dot com - the talent myth
“Are smart people overrated?” Classic Malcolm Gladwell.
YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple
Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently.
O'Reilly Radar > Engineering Management Hacks: The BigBook Technique
This is one way to convince bosses about the folly of The Mythical Man-Month. “We’ve bought you many copies so that you might read it faster.”
Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Rob Glaser
Head of Real/Rhapsody opens mouth, shite dribbles out.
Big Brother's Golden Ticket
The Brit version of Big Brother is going to include a contestant picked by finding a “golden ticket” inside a Kit Kat bar.
➠ May 10, 2006
Google Trends
Google Fight Pro — Fun datamining showing search volume over time.
M-Systems - SATA Products - mSSD Serial ATA 2.5"
2.5” solid-state SATA drives. How long until these are cheap enough to use in laptops?
Matt Gemmell » Blog Archive » Creative
Rant on that horrible term for folks who do graphic design: “Creative”. I’ve always hated it, since I like to think that programming involves a heavy dose of creativity. Starts out well, but the author disappears up his own arsehole towards the end.
➠ May 9, 2006
Wired News: Airlines Try Smarter Boarding
Strikes me that Southwest’s “Sit wherever you want” policy is the smartest of the lot.
Long-term backup [dive into mark]
When you’re building up gigabytes of data, how can you realistically back-it-up?
EL(?)OO
Do Stop & Shop lie? Is this really "Extra Light" enough for Shangri-La?
➠ May 8, 2006
TIME.com: A Game For All Ages
Time Magazine preview of the Wii. I’m positively giddy at the potential for a Wario Warez game with that controller.
➠ May 7, 2006
Monkey Fluids
Puerile re-captioning of 1950’s childrens book illustrations. Makes me laugh, not least because I loved all those dated Enid Blyton romps as a kid.
Following Shangri-La
I’m going to try following that Shangri-La Diet that all the kids are doing for a bit. (It’s the new Atkins, dontchaknow.) I’m blogging the experience across here.
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.