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Entries for week beginning June 17, 2007
➠ June 21, 2007
Geni - Everyone's Related
Really cool social family-tree building software. Allows you to invite your relatives to help build up the tree.
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de Icaza
Wow! The Mono team produced an open-source implementation of MS’s Flash-killer(TM) in 21 days.
Peel & TOTP Open Data
BBC releases music playlist data (from Peel Sessions and Top of the Pops at first), linked in with MusicBrainz IDs. Hurrah!
➠ June 20, 2007
Dramatic Chipmunk - CollegeHumor video
“Best five second video on the internet.”
Facebook | Abe Vigoda Status
The most important Facebook application EVAR!
alli: Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect
I saw a huge display of “alli” is CVS the other night, and most of these thoughts ran through my head. I remember when Xenical first came out, and I heard the phrase “fecal urgency” for the first time.
Apple - iPhone - YouTube Browser
Apple continue throwing out tasty morsels of iPhone announcements in the run-up to the launch next Friday — This time, a built-in YouTube browser. (Random thought: If Steve Jobs is trying to tell the developer community that Web Apps are a perfectly good way to develop for the iPhone, how come Apple have taken the perfectly good website that is YouTube and created a custom app for it?)
PowerCost Monitor - Save up to 20% on your electricity bill
Device that allows you to see in realtime how fast the little wheel is spinning on your electricity meter, wherever you are in the house. Our local leccy company, NStar, is subsidising them, so they’re only $30.
➠ June 19, 2007
globeandmail.com: What would Jack Bauer do?
Supreme Court judge Justice Antonin Scalia: “Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don’t think so.” No, really. Frightening.
Hammock District - Limited Editions (aka Now Or Never) - Glarkware
Another great relatively-obscure-Simpsons-reference shirt from Glarkware (I still love my “Perfectly Cromulent” one)
How to solve a maze with Photoshop
Photoshop lets you have your cake and eat it.
Kempa.com: Vinyl Data
Compilation of the ZX Spectrum programs sometimes included with British pop singles in the 80s. “OH DEAR!! a bat bit you” I had no idea about the Urusei Yatsura track. Gonna have to give that a shot!
Opera Watch - Opera Mini 4 beta released; includes desktop-like browsing capabilities
New free cellphone version of Opera allows you to zoom out and view the whole webpage. Kind of like that cellphone that’s getting launched next week — I forget its name.
Versions - Mac Subversion Client
“Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won’t make you long for the command line interface anymore.”
➠ June 18, 2007
San Jose Mercury News - Geeking out: Young software developers resurrect Homebrew spirit
Article on SuperHappyDevHouse. Amusing that it mentions that there has never been a follow-up to DevHouseBoston… exactly one week before DevHouseBoston2!
Michael Moore's "Sicko" on Google Video
Probably will be pulled pretty quickly, but the full two hours of Michael Moore’s new film is up on Google Video.
➠ June 17, 2007
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.