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Entries for week beginning February 19, 2006
➠ February 24, 2006
API - Lucene Web Service
Cool stuff (in a gloriously uncool way). A servlet to handle remote Lucene queries which is based on Atom-Pub, XOXO and OpenSearch. Hooray for well-defined standards which will speed up coding.
Yahoo exec: Labels should sell music without DRM | News.blog | CNET News.com
Yahoo exec plants idea in record labels’ heads that DRM’d music is useless. Hope he can make it take root. The only people benefitting from DRM currently are Apple (getting iPod lock-in) and Microsoft (selling their technology to everyone else). Everyone else loses.
➠ February 23, 2006
Talking House
A house near us has just gone up for sale, and apparently there's an AM transmitter so you can hear all about it without having to ring the doorbell.
Of course, the bad man in me wants to try to broadcast "Metal Machine Music" on that frequency at a higher power.
They're currently asking about $50k more than the Zillow Zestimate. Curious to see how this plays out with regards to Zillow's estimates.
➠ February 22, 2006
Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
Excellent paper by danah boyd explaining just why teenagers are spending hours on myspace — Parents have become to paranoid about the “dangers” in the real world, that the only place kids can be themselves unsupervised is online.
Amazon.com: I Hate Other People's Kids
Adrianne’s book is out, and it’s great. From the back cover: “They say Jesus loved the little children, all the children of the world, but he never had to dine with one. He chose the lepers.”
➠ February 21, 2006
codefetch{
Search engine for the code samples made available for download by programming book publishers.
➠ February 20, 2006
TechCrunch: Flyspy Brings The New Web To Airline Ticketing
Forthcoming webapp which promises to bring a bit of transparency to the nightmare that is airline ticket pricing. Having just spent an hour trying to work out the cheapest way to get to Scotland for my sister’s wedding in August, this can’t come soon enough.
Weebls Stuff - Ultimate Showdown
Excellent flash animation and tune. Not made by Weebl, just hosted by him.
Burningbird: We Interrupt This Commercial Break with a Word about RSS
Oh, fucking hell. Dave Winer’s started another dick-swinging war about RSS, this time claiming that a group he started no longer exists, which came as something of a surprise to the nine members.
➠ February 19, 2006
BBC - Science & Nature - Climate Change
New distributed computing project “sponsored” by the Beeb. It’s an interesting problem to solve, and they’ve done the smart thing that made SETI so viral: A really attractive screensaver that will attract attention around offices. Now running on a bunch of my PCs.
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.