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“Previously, airlines worried about dissatisfied customers,” said a Wharton professor, Serguei Netessine. “Now I don’t think they worry about it because the customer service at all airlines is so horrible.”
Some very cool OS X command-line utilities I never knew existed.
Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I’m so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it’s only going to become more important.
Open-source-software social network, tracking both projects and people.
Article about the inevitability of records being leaked pre-release. I can’t remember the last time I bought an album that I hadn’t listened to already via download. All hail OiNK!
This looks fab — New “teen” comedy written by Seth Rogen and produced by Judd Apatow.
The excellent Mac remote control software adds an AJAX web-server designed for the iPhone. It works a treat for the old Mac Mini I keep under my TV.
Attackers could theoretically use DNS rebinding to use your computer to connect to anywhere — Even internal sites. I’m skeptical that this is a “big” problem — the hurdles that an attacker would have to leap are numerous — but it’s an interesting approach.
Download it for $0.99, then play it in the background when you’re showing off your iPhone.
Much as I love my bassets, I suspect my next dog will have to be a “puggle” (half-pug, half-beagle). They’re pretty adorable.
Arkanoid for the DS will be packaged with a paddle controller so you can play the game as it was always intended. This makes me colossally happy.
Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There’s no smart matching yet, but that’s promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome.
I’m seeing increased chatter about the source control package “git” at the moment. I should investigate it at some point.
My wife, in an email to a total stranger: “Rod and I have been married for three and a half years. He has not done a single load of laundry in that time. […] His hairline has receded, his waistline has expanded, he has stopped wearing his contacts, and his beard is more scruff than anything else.”
True love, non?
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.
