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Entries for week beginning November 26, 2006

December 2, 2006

home of the nerd cave | taskbar shuffle

Drag’n’drop the buttons in your Windows taskbar, in case you, like me, are the obsessive type who gets quite out-of-whack when your mail client isn’t the left-most button.

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Wordie

“Like Flickr, without the photos”. Make lists of words. Pointless and lovely.

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Parallels Desktop New Coherence Feature

The latest beta of Parallels Desktop for OS X allows you to seamlessly display windows from, erm, Windows on your OSX desktop. This is very cool stuff. Makes me wish I had an Intel Mac to try it out on.

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December 1, 2006

City of Somerville - Street Sweeping & Street Sweeping Parking Enforcement Extended Through December 31, 2006

Tsk. Somerville parking restrictions extended a month due to “warmer weather”. It’s things like this that give global warming a bad name.

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The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag

I’ve decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month.

RED

Splendid Missile-Command-esque game. Just the thing to play when you’re procastinatingly putting-off writing your annual self-evaluation form at work.

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Gawd Bless the Qwiin

Gawd Bless the Qwiin

My Wii, looking all patriotic after the application of a decal from DecalGirl.com.

November 30, 2006

Penny Arcade! - Lubricado

“The Wiimote just slipped right out of my hand and broke my TV.”

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Nmap Online

Run NMap from a remote host. Useful for testing your local firewall.

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November 29, 2006

Young at Heart Chorus covering Coldplay's "Fix You"

Young at Heart is a choral group of senior citizens who cover rock songs. This rendition of Fix You is just chilling.

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GameTrailers.com - User Movie: The Mii Lebowski

The Big Lebowski, remade with Miis and Wii Bowling.

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Any Minute Now

CD Purchase: Soulwax - Any Minute Now

Your odds of dying

Graph of your odds of dying by various causes.

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It's the name on everyone's screen. But is Southridge Ethanol really such a hot stock? | Special_reports | Guardian Unlimited Money

Anatomy of a pump’n’dump scam. Or: Why you’re getting so much more spam this month.

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Threadless T-Shirts - EXCITING NEWS ABOUT THE TEES WE PRINT ON!

Threadless are sufficiently large now to get to design the actual fabric of their T-shirts. “Imagine a tee that is less boxy than a Fruit of the Loom, but not as skinny as an American Apparel. Imagine a tee whose fabric is softer than American Apparel but not as thin.” I think I just came.

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Playing AC3/DTS tracks sourced from DVD - Slim Devices : Community : Forums

HOWTO rip the audio from 5.1-mix music DVDs and play it back on a Squeezebox. I’ve got an increasing number of surround music releases, so this’ll come in handy.

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b3ta: Virgin Trains Customer Satisfaction Form

“How late was your train? [ ] Hours. [ ] Days [ ] In my day, all this was fields”

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November 28, 2006

BuddyLube

I’ve no freaking idea what this website is, but by god, the jingle is catchy.

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Skid Prooof Glove for Wii Controller

Hands getting sweaty from too much Wii-playing? Here’s your solution!

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Toilet Delight on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

People think I exaggerate about how dull my hometown of Tillicoultry is. So, for you doubters, here’s a “news”paper headline from last year. The top story? Joss Stone had stopped at a pub in Tillicoultry for a wee. Hold. The. Front. Page.

Kunal Anand - Blog: Glancing alternative song structures with Graphviz

Visualizing the structure of a song, based on the pattern of words used in the lyrics.

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The Power of Together

Sit through three “webcasts” on “exciting” “new” Microsoft “technology”, and get a free legitimate license for Windows Vista and/or Office 2007.

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Presto – Send email and photos to people who don't have a computer

Another bubblicious startup — Email photos and letters to “people who don’t have a computer” *cough*old people*cough*, and have them print out on their hooked-up-to-the-phoneline HP inkjet printer. I can’t imagine that the old-person-without-a-computer market is going to stay large much longer, but it’s an interesting idea.

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November 27, 2006

Wii Skin - Retro Revolution @ DecalGirl.com

Make your Wii like a bit more NESy! (I just ordered a Union Jack skin for my Wii, so I can play Super Monkey Ball for Queen And Country)

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November 26, 2006

Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks - Education - Times Online

Good bloody grief. Damn that 2.4Ghz band, and all its illness-causing ways. Hope the schools also removed all cordless telephones and, erm, microwave ovens. Won’t somebody think of the children?!

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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.

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