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Entries for week beginning November 11, 2007

November 17, 2007

Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games

A brief history of Bejeweled and similar “casual” games.

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Mum and Her Pet

Mum and Her Pet

We bought my mum a Webkinz as a gift a few months ago, because I knew she'd enjoy all the casual games.. Here she is showing us the garden her Webkinz is growing.

(And it should be said, when my mum told Joy that she had already earned a "Webkinz Crown of Wonder", Joy was shooting daggers at her for 5 minutes -- Joy's been trying for months to earn hers)

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November 16, 2007

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Tracking irc-style karma across Twitter. plusplusbot++

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YouTube - Doctor Who, Children in Need Special - Time Crash

I completely forgot this was on tonight. Lovely little bit of Who geekery. Number 5 was “my” doctor too — the first one I remember watching.

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SF Gate: Better with Age

Excellent infographic which certainly suggests that Barry Bonds’s alleged steroid use may have improved his batting skills.

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November 15, 2007

YouTube - Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer

Excellent (and lo-fi) video by some Daily Show writers on the current writers’ strike.

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apophenia: algorithms for dumb security questions

A consistent tactic for answering those stupid “What color was your first favourite pet?” type questions.

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Baseball Pitches Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar

Nice infographics explaining the difference between a slider and a cutter.

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November 14, 2007

Spitzer's Christmas Tax Surprise - November 14, 2007 - The New York Sun

Cunning — Amazon.com has been told it must start collecting sales tax from New York residents, because it has “salespeople” in NY. Those salespeople? New Yorkers with Amazon affiliate links on their website. Wonder if this will hold…

Cowbell Hero

Exactly what you expect it to be.

Chumby

Chumby

My Chumby, powered-up, and making my life approximately 65% better by displaying a live feed from the San Diego Zoo Pandacam.

I believe it can perform other tasks too, but who cares? PANDAS!

November 13, 2007

Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME

Sadly, this is the most interesting and innovative thing I’ve read about “Android” so far — that they’re getting around Sun’s “J2ME” trademark/patent/licensing beartrap by implementing their own VM.

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Top 10 Random Quotes from Twitter

“An aggregation of humorous, weird, inspiring, newsworthy or just plain cool random status updates from Twitter.”

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November 12, 2007

Buy Super Mario Galaxy at Toys 'R' Us, get a $25 gift card - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Toys Backwards-R Us are giving away $25 gift cards when you buy Super Mario Galaxy from them. Since I was already planning on getting it, that makes me happy. (I’ll probably use the gift card to buy some Wii Points, so I can download Super Mario Bros 3 off of the Virtual Console. Woo!)

Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook

Great Rands article. It’s a bit hit-or-miss describing me, but the section “Nerds are fucking funny” sums me up perfectly. “Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly as possible?”“

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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.