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Entries for week beginning July 16, 2006
➠ July 22, 2006
Steee-rike!
Joy bowling at King's. For a crappy cameraphone shot, I think this turned out pretty good!
➠ July 21, 2006
Coming Zune
Microsoft finally confess to the existence of their “Zune” player. Nothing much announced yet; just a teaser site with a man stroking a bunny.
NetworkX
Python package for modelling and graphing networks. Looks like it’ll be easier to work with than GraphViz.
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
Top music video (blatantly/lovingly ripped off from “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”) from quality new Spector-esque polka-dotted powerpop group.
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | NBC signs up YouTube sitcom
NBC’s commissioned six episodes of the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching”, after the rejected pilot garnered good reviews on YouTube.
The Editorial Cartoons of Clay Bennett: Security vs. Privacy
Excellent cartoon. From October 2001, but still as true today, sadly.
➠ July 20, 2006
ThinkGeek :: Solar LED Address Numbers
It drives me nuts when I’m trying to find an address, but the house numbers are barely visible. I’ve just ordered one of these for our house.
Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music
“Our position is simple: DRM doesn?t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day ? the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform.” Hells yeah!
EFF: Key Quotes from Today's EFF v. AT&T Decision
Some excellently common sense from the judiciary. “Dismissing this case at the outset would sacrifice liberty for no apparent enhancement of security.” Go donate the EFF some cash now!
coComment blog » What’s new?
coComment adds features that actually make it, you know, _useful_. It now tracks all comments left after you or a variety of blogging packages, and the Firefox extension means you don’t have to remember to hit the bookmarklet each time.
➠ July 19, 2006
ESPN.com: Page 2 : Choosing my EPL team
Bill Simmons, American sportswriter, goes through an in-depth investigation to decide upon an English Premier League to support this season. A great read.
➠ July 18, 2006
AOL Retention Manual Revealed - Consumerist
Consumerist get their paws on the scripts & tools used by AOL to try to keep their users from cancelling. “If you stop and think about it, every Member that calls in to cancel their account is a hot lead. Most other sales jobs require you to create your own leads, but in the Retention Queue the leads come to you!” Wankers.
Belle & Sebastian Charity Album Details
Splendid indie line-up for an album benefiting Save The Children.
Sysinternals: Acquisition FAQ
Sysinternals (makers of frankly necessary tools that should have been included in Windows) has been purchased by MS. Unlike every other “purchased by MS” story, this one isn’t on April 1st. ‘wget —mirror’ is your friend.
IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python
Improved console for Python. Includes, be still my beating heart, tab-completion for Python commands.
Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting
About to do a bunch of graphical data analysis. This seems to be the best graphic package for Python.
Popjustice £20 Music Prize: the 2006 shortlist...
Who gives a toss about yer Mercury arty wankfest? *This* is the music prize that matters. Some great choons in here.
➠ July 17, 2006
Apple - Trailers - The Prestige
Trailer for the upcoming movie from Christopher Nolan (director of Momento and Insomnia). Looks good to me!
➠ July 16, 2006
Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
Summary of a really interesting paper: Can you give potential CompSci students a test that will weed out those that will Just Never Get It?
Basset Hounds! Sunday 12:41 pm 7/16/06 Bristol, Rhode Island
Some of the bassets relaxing in the shade at the Colonial Basset Hound Rescue Basset Bash.
Maggie May, Sunday 11:23 am 7/16/06 Bristol, Rhode Island
This adorable little puppy stole everyone's hearts at the Basset Bash.
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.