Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning May 28, 2006

➠ June 3, 2006

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

“What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?” The Mentos and Diet Coke meme taken to the extreme.

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Omniscient Debugging

Very cool Java debugging tool, which records your application’s entire state over runtime, and allows you to replay and debug it at a later date.

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Panel: Startup 2.0 - The New Landscape

Panel: Startup 2.0 - The New Landscape

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Building Scalable Web Infrastructure

Building Scalable Web Infrastructure

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Carbohydrates A Go-Go

Carbohydrates A Go-Go

Geekfood

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Goatse Stickers

Goatse Stickers

Spotted on Brian's laptop. Purchasable from GoatseSticker.com

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How Technology is Changing the Music Industry

How Technology is Changing the Music Industry

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Monster Volunteers

Monster Volunteers

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A Monster Volunteer who didn’t want to be photographed

A Monster Volunteer who didn’t want to be photographed

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Early Attendees

Early Attendees

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Shimon & the Schedule Board

Shimon & the Schedule Board

This was right at the start of BarCamp, before it got completely filled for the day.

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➠ June 2, 2006

Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007

Nigeria is reportedly highly interested in the $100 laptop. Won’t it feel good when you know that the “Your relative Larry Begbie has died” spams were produced on one?

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Vimeo / really expensive cat toy video clip

You can be damned sure that if I had a MacBook, Bacon wouldn’t be getting within 10 feet of it, no matter how cute he is.

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FootieFox

Firefox extension which adds football scores to your statusbar. Can someone do a baseball version of this?

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Baddiel and Skinner's World Cup Podcasts

Fantasy World Cup may be no more, but Baddiel & Skinner are doing free podcasts. I look forward to the one following England getting knocked-out. Should be fun.

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Photographing Squirrels - a photoset on Flickr

Squirrels + Antique Cameras = CUTE!

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➠ June 1, 2006

The Comprehensive Bunny Name List

A comprehensive list of all known bunny names. “And please, this is not a list of possible bunny names, so don’t just send a name a bunny might have.” When I was a kid, ours was http://purl.org/ceryle/bunny/#bid0511.

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No Shouting on Flickr at Binary Bonsai

Cunning social tweak on Flickr comments — ANY ALL CAPS SENTENCES GET CONVERTED TO LOWERCASE.

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BBC SPORT | BBC website shows World Cup games

Wow, the Beeb are streaming live video of all their World Cup coverage. Geo-limited to the UK only, but still, that’s a lot of bits to shuffle. I can’t imagine office IT folks are particularly thrilled about this move!

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➠ May 30, 2006

Yelp - Rod B.'s Reviews - Somerville

I’m really enjoying playing with Yelp at the moment. They’ve done an excellent job of making the site browsable, and encouraging you to write your own reviews.

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Better Than We Know Ourselves: Pitchfork Feature

Article covering the myriad of music discovery and recommendation engines out there. “Echo Nest” sounds interesting (and they’re local).

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➠ May 29, 2006

Cute Overload: Hello, Pod

The SoundDock has met its match, I fear.

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➠ May 28, 2006

BarCamp / BarCampBoston

Only a week to go until the New England geek unconference. There’s a good mix of interesting folks signed up, so it should be a good time.

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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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