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Entries for week beginning March 4, 2007
➠ March 9, 2007
Ajax3d Demo
Holy crap! It’s Zarch of “Just about the only game you can play on your school’s Acorn Archimedes” fame, redone in JavaScript. Now to find “Mad Professor Mariati” and a RISC OS emulator…
Bostonist: It's not TomTom, it's CurtCurt
Curt Schilling voice for TomTom SatNav systems. The samples given are splendidly awful. “Errors lose ball games. Wrong turns make you late. Turn around when possible.”
➠ March 8, 2007
Ambient Intimacy
A good explanation of what’s so lovely about Twitter, in a way I can explain to folks without sounding crazy.
Link Fingerprints
Shame this hasn’t been implemented anywhere yet. Strikes me as an eminently sensible low-cost way to reduce the dangers of unsigned downloads.
Why Apple is the best retailer in America
Love the idea that they beta-tested the store layout by building one to throw away in a warehouse.
➠ March 7, 2007
All New Year!
Friend-of-a-friend who is trying one thing every day that he’s never done before. Day one was getting a tattoo!
38 Pitches
Curt Schilling’s blog.
TiVo Amazon Unbox service launched | PVRblog
You can buy and/or rent movies or TV shows from Amazon’s Unbox service, and have them show up on your TiVo. Bigger library than Apple’s movie service — Could this help keep TiVo afloat a smidge longer? (Your first $15 hit is free. I just “bought” The Departed)
Screencast on Quicksilver's "Comma Trick"
Didn’t know you could do this with QuickSilver. Those Windows apps that try to clone just the program launching part of QS are really missing the beauty of the app.
➠ March 6, 2007
Twitter / johnedwards
John Edwards’s campaign is Twittering his campaign stops.
BBC NEWS | Coffee 'no boost in the morning'
“The work […] showed only people who have avoided coffee for a while will get a buzz from caffeine.” I’ll say. I accidentally had caffeinated coffee for the first time in months last night, and I’m still buzzing.
➠ March 5, 2007
Dating Design Patterns
Found while buying the Gang of Four book from Amazon. “Encapsulated Big Fat Opening: Creating a sandbox environment for a female to request the pleasure of your company while still claiming encapsulated intentions.” Bizarre.
skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
Ugly frontpage, but potentialy very useful quick-and-dirty online whiteboard app.
➠ March 4, 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.