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Entries for week beginning October 8, 2006
➠ October 13, 2006
YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore
Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words “hybrid pimpmobile”
➠ October 12, 2006
Jobless man asks judge for jail time - CNN.com
Too old to get a job, but not old enough for social security? “Rob” a bank, and get the state to provide your food and shelter.
It’s Great When You’re Straight, Yeah! Photomosaic
The cover art for Black Grape's It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah!, made up from untouched cover art from 900 other albums. View in full size for the full effect.
Made with AndreaMosaic
Screamadelica Photomosaic
The cover art for Primal Scream's iconic Screamadelica, made up from untouched cover art from 400 other albums. View in full size for the full effect. Add notes if you recognise anything!
Made with AndreaMosaic
AndreaMosaic Home Page
Really frickin’ good Photomosaic-making software. I’ve been having lots of fun with this, using around 15,000 album covers as the “tiles”, and it does an bang-up job, without “cheating” by tinting or repeating images (like some other software does).
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org)
Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It’s a decent-ish camera, and a great phone.
➠ October 11, 2006
YouTube - Grind House Trailer
Trailer for the upcoming Tarantino/Rodriguez flick. Could be awesome. Could be a train wreck. But it _does_ feature Rose McGowan with a machine gun for a leg.
Rolling Stone Rock and Roll Daily » Pete Doherty Watch
Handy Flash widget to help you keep track of what everyone’s favourite whacky crackjunkie is up to.
➠ October 10, 2006
My Flickr Moo Cards
A mixture of Boston, Bassets and a Bunch of other stuff. They look great, especially considering most of the photos were taken with crappy cameraphones!
Sadly, two of the twenty images I uploaded got printed as "Unavailable photo:" Not sure what caused that, but I'm gonna ping Moo and see what happened.
Open Source madness!
Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.
My last.fm chart arcs
Funky visualization of my music listening over time from MartinD at last.fm. Read his explanation to understand what it means, or just enjoy the soothing colours.
Amazon.co.uk: The Best of "Smash Hits"
Compilation of classic 80s features from ver Hits. Note to anyone not sure what to get me for my birthday: I MUST own this!
Decorated Trunks
Someone's been decorating the tree trunks around Union Square.
➠ October 9, 2006
OpenPandora
Player for Pandora which supports the multimedia keys on keyboards, minimizes to your system tray, and uploads your track info to last.fm.
TIP Using screen - Gentoo Linux Wiki
More in-depth screen-fu from the Gentoo Wiki. screen is now officially my favourite Linux utility EVER! (of the week).
You’re It! » MacBook as tag cloud
Brilliant idea! Print your del.icio.us tag cloud onto a massive vinyl sticker at PimpMyLaptop, then cover your MacBook with it. Easy way to advertise your interests in meatspace.
‘Best’ of Boston?
This is odd. Dunkin Donuts cups currently proclaim that they were awarded a "Best of Boston" award by Boston Magazine this year. However, a search of the Best of Boston site finds no such win.
In fact, it appears that the "award" was merely a corporate agreement to use the cup on the magazine cover.
I love DD as much as the next New Englander, but since the "Best of Boston" usually _means_ something (unlike some other awards, which just rank which business did the best job getting their customers to ballot-stuff), it seems massively lame to whore the title this way.
youngpup.net - Say Hello to Halfnote
Rather spiffy browser-based TODO.TXT from Aaron “Greasemonkey” Boodman. Minimal, secure, distributed, and AJAXtastic.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Reverse PIN Panic Code
Claim: Entering one’s PIN in reverse at any ATM will summon the police. “I’m not sure anyone here could remember their PIN numbers backward with a gun to their head.”
➠ October 8, 2006
Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke
Because all too often, the subtle humour of Marmaduke requires explaining.
Erik J. Heels » Pity The Yankees
Since the Sox didn’t make the playoffs, all we have to fall back on is sweet sweet schadenfreude. After reading Moneyball, I’m rooting for the Oakland A’s.
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.