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Entries for week beginning July 15, 2007

July 20, 2007

BBC NEWS | Your Potter stories in 100 words

Harry Potter books 1-6 in 100 words or less.

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Our Love to Admire

CD Purchase: Interpol - Our Love to Admire

July 19, 2007

LOL Bibble

Invisible Man say, “I can has light.” Gots light.

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MOO | Stickers - Print stickers using your images

MOO launch tiny wee custom stickers in a nice sharable form. Ordered myself a set.

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July 18, 2007

3D Mailbox: Worst. App. Ever.

Holy flaming crap! This is just spectacularly awesomely awful. Your email represented as human avatars hanging around a beach. The trailer has to be seen to be believed.

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Managing Humans - An Introduction

Promotional site for Rands’s book. My copy is already ordered.

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People playing chess on roller coasters

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

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We Are the Night

CD Purchase: The Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night

July 17, 2007

Harry Potter death spoilers

Your guide to the pick of the spoilers from the Harry Potter leak. I can’t believe Hagrid killed Hermione!

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The Fishbowl: Understanding Engineers: Feasibility

Every person who has any contact with software engineers Must Read This. Accurate definitions of the oft-used words “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.

July 16, 2007

No 3G on the iPhone, but why? A Battery Life Analysis

Somewhat surprised that Wi-fi draws less power than Edge.

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July 15, 2007

DOPPLR

Web 2.0 site which allows you to enter where you’re travelling, share your plans with your friends, and work out when you will serendipitously collide in meatspace. I don’t travel that much, but knowing when my remote friends might be in the New England area would be awesome.

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Nintendo E3 2007 - Wii Fit

Video of Nintendo’s forthcoming workout game for the Wii. Looks like a Brain Age for your whole body!

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Hack the iPhone - Ringtone installation instructions

Add ringtones to your iPhone in 23 easy steps. I think I’ll give Apple one firmware/iTunes upgrade to introduce the feature themselves before I go hacking around like this.

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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.