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Entries for week beginning July 9, 2006
➠ July 15, 2006
Women drivers!
Joy attacks me on the dodgems at Canobie Lake.
➠ July 14, 2006
Pearl & Dean - new version of our classic tune
Pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. Pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pahhhhh…pah!
Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Looks like a splendidly well designed and smartly integrated piece of kit. Uses a small shoe sensor to count your steps, an iPod nano to track them and store the data, iTunes to sync it, and a Nike-run website to visualize it over time. If I were ever planning to get off my arse, this would probably convince me to drop $80 on Nike trainers.
Boston Restaurant Week 2006
Reservations open today for $30.06 dinners at restaurants across Boston. I think we might go to Todd English’s Bonfire this year.
The Pig and the Box
A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones!
WidSets Beta
More software cluttering up my cellphone! This is a kind of like Konfabulator or Apple Dashboard — A website to manage your widgets (mostly RSS feeds at the moment), and a very simple, but attractive, on-phone interface for reading.
Hot or Not Captcha Mashup
Finally, someone has harnassed the power of “Am I Hot or Not?” for good. Pick the three hot people to prove you’re human.
➠ July 13, 2006
Call Me Fishmeal.: Note to Bill Gates: I'll take your bet, for $10,000.
Bill Gates says that it’s a 80% chance that Vista will ship in January. Mac developer Wil Shipley offers to take billg up on that bet.
Bullet in uber slow motion - Google Video
69 seconds of slow motion footage of a variety of things getting shot. Awesome.
flow|state: Insert key safely disarmed in Microsoft Word 2007
Hitting the ‘Insert’ key in Word 2007 will no longer enable the inexplicable document-eating mode. It had never occurred to me just how horrendous a usability experience the Insert key could be.
TiVo Central Online: Guru Guide™ Recommendations
Somehow, I missed this when it launched. Subscribe your TiVo to “guides” provided by magazines. I’ve just subbed up for the Entertainment Weekly one, which nets me anything called out in the “What To Watch” section of the mag.
➠ July 12, 2006
Puffy AmiYumi, Wednesday 10:10 pm 7/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts
The Puffy AmiYumi Splurge! Splurge! Splurge! tour. They read their on-stage banter off of notebooks. "Thank you. You guys... are.. the.. best?" It only sounded 5% more scripted than when native English-speaking bands do it..
The Medical Malpractice Myth - Forget tort reform. The Democrats have a better diagnosis.
Dems suggest that medical malpractice suits can be avoided by… hey! Reducing the number of times doctors or nurses screw up. That’s just crazy enough to work.
Anti-MassPIRG T-Shirt
“I DO NOT HAVE FIFTEEN MINUTES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT”. Man, I freakin’ hate MassPIRG. Their streetteams are one of those things where they actively turn me against a cause I’d otherwise support.
➠ July 11, 2006
➠ July 10, 2006
on crypto systems from CTO PGP
Rebuttal of the theory that the government are mass-cracking encrypted data. “If you want to brute-force a key, it literally takes a planet-ful of computers… Now of course, there are other ways to break the system.”
Comment is free: It was a wonderful headbutt
“A heartfelt appreciation of one of the finest headbutts ever thrown.” A detailed review of Zidane’s headbutt during the world cup final.
DaimlerChrysler - Dr. Dieter Zetsche
Crikey! That splendidly-moustachioed fellow appearing in the DaimlerChrysler TV ads actually *is* the chairman of the board. I was sure he was an actor.
Profanity Adventures
“A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures”. Missing are those text adventures that swore *at* you, when you typed in the names of rival games companies, magazines that had given them bad reviews, etc.
➠ July 9, 2006
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.