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Entries for week beginning July 23, 2006
➠ July 29, 2006
Arrogant Bastard Ale Saturday 9:55 pm 7/29/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
My chum Noel and I sample Arrogant Bastard Ale. The bottle warned us "You probably won't like this," and it was right.
➠ July 28, 2006
Big Man Run XI
A little piece of what makes Somerville special: A race where 200 fat blokes race 5 miles, stopping off at three “first-aid stations” (dive bars) to chug a beer and eat a hotdog.
LaughAtlantis
My lovely missus is doing a 24-hour sponsored blog. She’ll be blogging every thirty minutes for 24 hours, starting at 8am tomorrow. Go throw some cash in the direction of her charity!
➠ July 27, 2006
Google Code - Project Hosting
Google offer free Subversion hosting and bug tracking for open-source projects. Missing in comparison to Sourceforge: Web Hosting, Downloads, SVN web-browsing and adverts galore.
Kawaii Not: Screw the Status Quo
Groucho glasses make anything funny.
SIMPSON'S MOVIE footage from Comic Con hits YouTube!
Animatics from the upcoming Simpsons movie. The big guffaws from the crowd make me think that the best time to see this will be a late Saturday evening showing, when the audience is made up of slightly inebriated geeks (this is how I first saw the South Park movie, and the crowd reaction really enhanced the viewing experience)
Baldy!
Having woken up to a particularly stonking case of bedhead this morning, I inwardly-dialogued "fuck it!" and asked Joy to help me take my beardtrimmer to my head.
Lesson learned? Next time, use a longer setting on the trimmer, cause my blond hair is nearly transparent this short.
➠ July 26, 2006
YouTube - Pulp - Bad Cover Version
It’s a great song, but this video just made it even better. I’ll always have an especially soft spot for it after someone on a mailing-list I was on made it clear he didn’t get the joke, and wondered how Pulp had pulled it off.
➠ July 25, 2006
Aptana: The Web IDE
IDE built on top of Eclipse (and available as an Eclipse plugin) that aids in the coding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code-completion tooltips showing you which browsers understand which keywords looks dead handy.
Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft's 'Zune'
John Gruber’s Magic 8 Ball does its work on Zune.
Web Inno 7 Report | Boston WTF
Brian’s summary of last night’s Boston Web Innovators Meetup. My snark is saved for the comments section. But if I hear of another startup whose entire business model is “targeted advertising”, there’s going to be trouble!
reddit.com: Slate - what's new online
Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the “official” place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there’s more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just “targetted advertising”.
Slim Devices : Product Info : Transporter
Slim Devices launch their $2k “audiophile” version of the Squeezebox. Gold-plated out the wazoo for those who claim they hear the difference. They probably won’t sell many, but they’ll make a shitload from the ones they do sell.
➠ July 24, 2006
UnNews:England shocked by occurrence of summer for 21st year in a row - Uncyclopedia
“We didn’t anticipate this level of heat this year — we never thought we’d get a twenty-first hot season in a row!” Extra marks to the authors for the Tribe of Toffs reference.
Gigantor Remote
Ah, I love the crap they sell at Brookstone. The overpriced junk that gives the air of being vaguely useful, but is too cheap and shoddy to actually solve a problem well.
My favourite one that I saw yesterday was this $50 massive universal remote. Pretend to be a Lilliputian from the comfort of your couch!
MotherLoad
A splendidly fun flashgame, drilling down for minerals, and returning to the surface before you run out of fuel, whilst cashing in the minerals and upgrading your driller. I could see me getting quite addicted to this!
➠ July 23, 2006
Puffy AmiYumi cover Green Day's "Basket Case" (MP3)
I’m curious to test out RedSwoosh’s P2Pness, so link-followers: Have a shot at downloading seven stonking megabytes of J-Pop oddness! Windows users should be directed to download the RedSwoosh client, while Mac & Linux users should be redirected to the CoralCDN service. Let’s see how little bandwidth I can use distributing some QUALITY CHOONS!
Red Swoosh - free your links
Theoretically seamless and easy P2P file sharing. Add “http://edn.redswoosh.net/” to the front of a URL, and it’ll go through a P2P client instead of being served up by your HTTP server. Kind of similar to what OpenCola were doing in 2001.
Johnny Cupcakes Clothing
Local indie T-shirt designer. I’ll have to take a nosey at his store on Newbury St.
CD Purchase: Various Artists - Strange Brew: Weird & Wonderful Covers From the Atlantic & Warner Vaults
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.