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Entries for week beginning July 30, 2006

August 5, 2006

Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim

Swoop over the world in this little flashapp powered by the Google Maps graphics.

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The Phone Book Live - Edinburgh Fringe Festival

£5 to hear a comedian or actor read a page out of the phone book. Can they make it interesting? This is why I love the Fringe!

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388 Amazon users "review" a 1-gallon bottle of milk

My favourite is the haiku: “my old speak and say / sprayed me with tuscan whole milk / when the cow said moo”

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August 4, 2006

Vizio L37HDTV10A - 37" LCD HDTV

Nice looking HDTV, going for a penny under a grand at Costco. Damn, that’s tempting.

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import this. » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Django on Windows

Links to all the pieces you need to get Django up-and-running on Windows. I’ve just started poking at Django, and I’m liking it so far.

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"I live at" "Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?" - Google Search

Bizarre comment spam. The number changes each time, but it’s usually “from” mikef@gmail.com and links to google.com.

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August 3, 2006

[daily dose of imagery] lightning storm

Excellent shot of lightning hitting the CN Tower.

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OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Very cool (and pretty low-budget) promo from OK Go. Just four guys, eight treadmills, and presumably hours of sweat and choreography. Anyone know who directed it?

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Exile on Coldharbour Lane

CD Purchase: Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane

The Red Seat | The Threads | Sweet Caroline

T-shirt celebrating one of my favourite things about baseball at Fenway: The sing-a-long-a-Sweet-Caroline during the middle of the 8th.

Snakes on a Plane phone spammer

Torment your friends by having Samuel L Jackson prank-calll them.

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August 2, 2006

WinTabber - Tab your terminal, shell, browser or favorite application

Can be used with PuTTY to create a tabbed interface. Since I usually have four or five ssh shells open at a time, this’ll help me keep track of things.

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workFRIENDLY

Surf the web discreetly at work in a window that at a glance is indistinguishable from Microsoft Word.

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August 1, 2006

COI TV Fillers- Joe and Petunia

The UK Central Office of Information has “remastered” a classic Public Information Film for the 00s.

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YouTube - Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia

Colbert defends Wikipedia as a great bastion of Truthiness — So long as a majority of people believe it, you can include it as “fact” in Wikipedia. Currently, about 20 elephant-related articles are locked down!

July 31, 2006

Pop På Svenska + Plan 714 Till

CD Purchase: Komeda - Pop På Svenska + Plan 714 Till

Lamb

CD Purchase: Lamb - Lamb

The Broadband - God Save the Internet

” Writing songs about corporate malfeasance so you don’t have to!”. Free net-neutrality MP3 from Jill Sobule, Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis.

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Guardian Unlimited | G24

The Grauniad’s constantly-updated downloadable PDF, designed to be printed out before you leave the office in the evening to read on the train home. Nice way to attack the evening newspapers’ sales without having to distribute deadtree yourself.

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Silk Marijuana Plants, Silk Hemp Plants & Silk Marijuana Buds - New Image Plants

Faux-weed for decorative purposes. The next friend of mine who gets admitted to hospital is getting some “medical” “marijuana” to spruce up their ward!

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July 30, 2006

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video

“Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all”

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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.