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Entries for week beginning September 10, 2006
➠ September 16, 2006
Amazon.com: Wall and Piece: Books: BANKSY
If you’re just hearing about Bansky this weekend, might I recommend this book. It’s a compendium of his finest work, and it’s truly impressive — both funny and thought-provoking. But mostly funny.
➠ September 15, 2006
➠ September 14, 2006
blufr - bruising your ego one bluf at a time
Silly little true-or-false game from answers.com. Good fun.
CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Zune is Here
“You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first.” Well, that’s worth the battery drain of 802.11 networking.
Remy & Orsillo bobbleheads
Bobbleheads of the Red Sox commentators.
Wii.com - Introducing Wii Channels
Videos of Nintendo’s non-gamey stuff built in to the Wii. Browse news and weather on your television set. What a concept! Someone should invent that 30 years ago and call it Teletext.
Live at Nintendo's NYC Wii press conference - Engadget
The Wii details are out: Launches Nov 19th (two days after PS3), $250 including one remote+nunchuck and Wii Sports, Extra remote+nunchuck for $60. From the download service, NES games will be $5, SNES games $8, N64 games $10. I can’t bloody wait!
➠ September 13, 2006
➠ September 12, 2006
TiVo.com | TiVo(R) Series3(TM) HD
Existing TiVo lifetime subscribers can transfer their subscription to a new “Series 3” HD box. This is an incredibly smart move by TiVo — A tasty carrot to encourage their existing customers to upgrade to the new hardware while it’s still full price.
Apple Showtime: iTV "One More Thing" Photos - Gizmodo
Apple’s forthcoming hardware to stream music/video/photos over WiFi from your PC to your TV and Stereo. My uneducated bet: It’ll also stream music wirelessly (over Bluetooth, probably) from an iPod that’ll be launched in January.
Copley Place Security Guard
This is the security guard at the offices in Copley Place.
Joy works there, and I was going to visit her. This guard asked for my ID, and when I gave her my driver's license, she started typing all the information from it (license number, home address, date of birth) into her computer. I complained, asked about privacy policies, was refused any explanation for what they might do with my data, demanded my ID back, and I was refused entry, so Joy came down to meet me.
While I was waiting for Joy, I took a photo of the guard just to piss her off more. (I actually turned the flash on my cellphone on, just so it was completely clear what I was doing).
Yes, I am a smartarse.
Johnston (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turns out that the official London Underground typeface is not, as I had been lead to believe, Gill Sans, but instead “Johnston”.
Zabeth with Napkin
A discussion of Zabs's grapes-up-schnozz shot pretty much demanded a reenactment with whatever was nearby and nose-sized.
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YouTube - The Muppet Show - Beaker Sings
One of the best Muppet Show clips ever. Beaker performs “Feelings”
HeyLetsGo Fenway Fest
HeyLetsGo is holding a free event at Fenway Park this Friday evening, watching the Yankees/Sox game in NY on the Jumbotron.
The Tobin Bridge Tuesday 2:26 pm 9/12/06 Charlestown, Massachusetts
Taken during the Bose Cruise (It's like a Booze Cruise, but with less alcohol, and greater noise reduction).
Boattuggery Tuesday 2:11 pm 9/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts
A tanker navigating Boston Harbor with a few tugboats guiding it.
The Zakim Bridge Tuesday 1:57 pm 9/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts
My favourite new piece of architecture in Boston.
Skyline Tuesday 1:48 pm 9/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts
Airyplane Tuesday 12:50 pm 9/12/06 Boston, Massachusetts
Descending to Logan.
➠ September 11, 2006
➠ September 10, 2006
Patrick in the Primary - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe has endorsed Deval Patrick for the gubernatorial primaries in MA. Patrick is one of those rare politicians who, the more I read and hear about him, the more impressed I am with him.
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.
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