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Entries for week beginning April 1, 2007
➠ April 7, 2007
Time stands still for Hempfield teen in lockup - Tribune-Review
Kid phones a school hotline an hour before someone phones in a bomb threat. Unfortunately, the school hadn’t adjusted for the new DST switch, so he got hauled into juvenile detention for twelve days. “County juvenile detention officials wanted to keep Webb in custody, Andrews said. “They wanted him to have a mental health evaluation because he wouldn’t admit to making the call.” ” Frightening.
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
“OK, here I go, I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.”
➠ April 6, 2007
Oxford Geek Nights
This looks like a format that’d be worth replicating in Boston. Informal meetups with scheduled 5 or 15 minute presentations, focused on cool web technology.
Japan Runs on Dunkin' on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This cracked me up when I saw it at Fenway last night. The Dunkin Donuts billboard above the bleachers is in Japanese (reportedly, it says “Welcome to Fenway Park”). Dice-K mania hits Dunks!
➠ April 5, 2007
nike :: JUST DO IT.
As we await Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first start as a Red Sox pitcher, here’s his new Nike advert playing in Japan. The shot of Wally the Green Monster in the middle is kind of disconcerting.
Spinning Into Oblivion - New York Times
“The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc.”
➠ April 4, 2007
Hairy Chest in the Sox Crowd
This is why watching the Sox in HD is so important. Sure, the game's a bit clearer, but really, it's all about those moments when Orsillo & Remy lose their everloving minds and amuse themselves.
Here, they take a fan to task who had removed his shirt (along with his friends) to spell "BOSTON" across their chests. They spent a good two minutes discussing how he should trim his chest hair, pondering whether it joined around the back, doodling with the telestrator, and commenting how he reminded them of Austin Powers. The cameras even cut away from Youk's home run to show this guy putting his shirt back on.
Hooray for Don and the Remdawg.
Research points the finger at PowerPoint - Technology - smh.com.au
“Pioneered at the University of NSW, the research shows the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.”
Product listing - Geekz Shop
T-shirts and stickers emblazoned with the likes of Richard Stallman, Donald Knuth and Bruce Schneier. I ordered a couple of the Schneier stickers for my laptops.
➠ April 3, 2007
FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox !
Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.
PC World - The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time
Limited to products released since the “personal computer”. I don’t want to imagine a world that didn’t have these products as stepping stones.
➠ April 2, 2007
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store
Apple will be selling DRM-free music from EMI next month. Pitched as “higher-quality” (256kbps AAC) to justify the price increase. The interesting statistic once this launches is going to be the number of people who choose the lower-cost DRMed version.
➠ April 1, 2007
iusethis mac software: applications used by rodbegbie
Up-to-date list of the software I use on my Mac.
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.