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Entries for week beginning July 9, 2006

July 15, 2006

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!

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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.

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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.

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The Pig and the Box

A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones!

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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.

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twttr

New mobile friend-tracking social-network system from some Odeo folks. It reminds me of the way my friends and I used to use our AIM Away and Profile messages to pass on information and injokes.

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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.

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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.

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My drive home tonight

Stupid GPS tricks. Captured with GETrack.

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mobile-j.de :: Products/GETrack

Series 60 cellphone app which tracks your location over time, and exports them as KML files, which can be used with Google Maps and Google Earth.

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Wayfinder Earth

Navigation app for Series 60 cellphones. Maps and routes are streamed from the server, so you don’t an extra memory card to store them. Only costs €10 for a year’s subscription.

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NBC.com > The Office > Webisodes

The first two “webisodes” of The Office are up now.

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Bullet in uber slow motion - Google Video

69 seconds of slow motion footage of a variety of things getting shot. Awesome.

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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.

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July 12, 2006

Puffy AmiYumi, Wednesday 10:10 pm 7/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts

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.

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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.

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July 11, 2006

RoundCube Webmail Project

Attractive, and fairly lightweight, self-hostable webmail client. Works with any IMAP server.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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July 9, 2006

Coastr

Social networking for beer drinkers. Find pints you’ll like, and bars from whence to imbibe them.

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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.