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Entries for week beginning November 19, 2006

November 25, 2006

AGLOCO™ | Own the Internet

Look out, kids! AllAdvantage is back. Back! BACK!

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Go Faster Stripe

Small start-up producing reasonably-priced stand-up comedy DVDs from comedians who aren’t mainstream enough for high-street stores. Starting off with a set the splendid Stewart Lee. Ordered!

November 24, 2006

WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

I was pondering what license I apply to Twadget. I think I’ve found my man.

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Twadget — The Twitter Vista Sidebar Gadget

I’ve knocked out a sidebar gadget for Vista which displays your friends’ statuses on Twitter.

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Clyde_portrait

Clyde_portrait

He's a very handsome dog.

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Let Sleeping Dogs…

Let Sleeping Dogs…

As an occasional insomniac, I am massively jealous of Clyde's ability to just fall fast asleep, no matter where he is. Middle of the hardwood floor with no mat? No problem.

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November 23, 2006

Mac Favicon | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

A “theme” for Firefox on OSX which adds Favicons to the bookmarks toolbar, where they belong. Hurrah!

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Ben Ward » Twitgit for Twitter

Nice unobtrusive non-interrupty Dashboard widget for tracking and posting-to Twitter.

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November 22, 2006

Come, Children! Drink from Santa’s Cock!

Come, Children!  Drink from Santa’s Cock!

Inappropriate beverage dispensers, spotted in Target.

DigiCam Geotagging with ZoneTag

This is a cool new feature in ZoneTag: Gather up your location information in your cellphone (either with a Bluetooth GPS, or just by cell-tower/location matching), then upload photos taken with your regular camera to Flickr and have ZoneTag geotag them automagically.

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A Selection of Miis

A Selection of Miis

Four Miis currently inhabiting our Wii.

Top left, it's me. Top right, the missus

Bottom left, the prince of darkness. Bottom right, some Austrian bloke.

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The Onion Store: Gotchabox

New from The Onion: Elaborate boxes for really crappy-sounding gifts (“Salt of the Month Club”, anyone?), which you hide your real present inside. Genius!

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Ask the pilot | Salon Technology

Patrick Smith’s mother causes confusion at the airline security counter: Is it OK to take marinara sauce (which is a liquid) onto a plane if it’s frozen (which makes it a solid)? Ah, I feel safer already.

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Variety.com - Faves to rerun 'Race'

The rumoured “All Star” edition of The Amazing Race is confirmed. I’ll wait to see the full cast-list before I get too upset.

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Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

Research project from the music & neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel Deaconess. Test your musical memory.

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November 21, 2006

Sunset from The Mountain

Sunset from The Mountain

One of the advantages of working at a location with the street address of "The Mountain"? Getting to see some gorgeous sunsets from the parking lot.

Best of Bond James Bond

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Best of Bond James Bond

Love (CD + Audio DVD)

CD Purchase: The Beatles - Love (CD + Audio DVD)

With Strings: Live at Town Hall

CD Purchase: Eels - With Strings: Live at Town Hall

Joel on Software: Choices = Headaches

Good article by Joel — Why *does* the Vista shutdown menu require *seven* options?

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November 20, 2006

My Wii number

is 8208 9478 2034 3274.

If you want to see my scruffy, portly (and endearingly accurate) Mii strut his stuff in your Mii Parade, or just want to send rude messages to my TV screen, let me know your friend code.

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It’s the ID badge hanging from the sporran that makes it traditional Scottish dress

It’s the ID badge hanging from the sporran that makes it traditional Scottish dress

I wore my kilt into work today, for reasons that aren't terribly interesting (let's just say I agreed to it on Saturday night after I'd imbibed some Harpoon Barleywine.)

If anyone asked, I told them it was "Sean Connery Day".

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Agile Messenger

AIM/Jabber/MSN client for cellphones. Seems nicely designed, but not sure it’s worth €25 a year for the service.

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xkcd - Console Lines

Yeah, that was close to my experience too.

Muppet Central News - Jokes Kermit wouldn't dare say

“Puppet Up” — a recording of the Jim Henson Company’s puppet improv show — will be shown tonight on TBS. Improv on TV never quite works, but I’ll be watching this regardless.

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November 19, 2006

Twitter / rodbegbie

I’m having lots of fun with Twitter. My “Emergency Snark Broadcast System”, if you will.

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PlayStation 3 hopefuls overwhelm mall - The Boston Globe

The story’s kind-of interesting (Screw-ups at the Copley Mall meant that people who waited outside for three days didn’t necessarily get a PS3, and the CT robbers), but the reason I’m blogging this? The fantastic photo illustrating the story.

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Wii in Action

Wii in Action

Home, unpacked, and rawkin'! Four hours in the cold? Worth it!

We have Wii!

We have Wii!

The Wii bundle (the console plus Excite Truck and Zelda, neither of which I really wanted, but which I should be able to sell on eBay no problem), plus Super Monkey Ball and Rayman: Raving Rabbids. In my car boot. Mine!

I'm a happy camper.

Updated to add: Zelda and Excite Truck both sold on half.com in about 10 minutes, recouping my $90. Ace!

Got my ticket.

Got my ticket.

Twelfth in line. My Costco had 48 to hand out, and everyone in line at 9am got one. In fact, the manager had to stand around outside with a spare ticket until a family showed up at 9.31am and claimed the final system!

My hero

My hero

This kind gentleman showed up with a Box of Joe and donuts to share amongst the line.

Costco Wii line

Costco Wii line

The line for Wii, outside Costco in Everett MA at about 7.30am.

Originally, I was planning on going to Target, but when I got there about 6.30, they'd already handed out tickets to the line for all the systems they had. (Some students were offering to sell their places in line. I didn't bother asking for how much)

The official word from Costco earlier in the week had been that they weren't stocking Wii's in their retail stores, to avoid lines. This turned out to be untrue, as when I wandered round the corner, there were 11 people waiting, including an off-duty Costco employee who said they had 48 in stock!


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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.