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Entries for week beginning March 16, 2008

March 22, 2008

Joy throws rock for @sepiateam

Joy throws rock for @sepiateam

My throw for @sepiateam

My throw for @sepiateam

Paper!

The Odd Couple

CD Purchase: Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

March 21, 2008

Will This Judd Apatow Movie Be Any Good? Vulture Does the Math

It’s just simple science. Superbad > Anchorman > Talladega Nights

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Experimental Gameplay Project t-shirts at Target

Target is stocking t-shirts which come with CD-ROMs of games from the Experimental Gameplay Project. Off-the-wall short-form games *and* silk-screened T-shaped clothing? It’s like they’re IN MY MIND!

Vote for virtualization

I rely on virtual machines for testing Windows code — I cannot fathom how Mac developers can possibly be expected to deliver quality applications without snapshotting and rolling back OS images.

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How to Make a Button

Miranda July’s searing behind-the-scenes exposé of the button manufacturing industry.

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March 20, 2008

ze's page :: colorwar 2008

Ze’s explanation for the colorwars on Twitter.

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March 19, 2008

Do Not Reply

The owner of donotreply.com blogs emails that have bounced to him when corporations (and government agencies) have sent email “from” @donotreply.com.

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Twitter / zefrank

Ze Frank is causing splendid hijinx on Twitter. Let’s go Sepia Team!

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Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion

Most gloriously offensive Onion headline in a while? Perhaps.

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March 18, 2008

Transcript of Obama's speech on race - msnbc.com

“The path to a more perfect union […] requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.”

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6 days, 22 hours and 7 seconds to go!

6 days, 22 hours and 7 seconds to go!

My current favourite Chumby widget -- Counting down the seconds until the Red Sox season opener in Japan next week.

ClassNamer

“Can’t think of a good class name? Try this” Also handy for filling in status reports. “This week, I optimized the WritableCommandVector.”

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March 17, 2008

RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software

Another example of the “ambient” data-gathering I’m becoming so fond of. Tracks what applications you use, and what websites you visit, and run comparisons to work out where you’re spending your time.

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March 16, 2008

Where wall-warts go to die

Where wall-warts go to die

A veritable rat king of power supplies and assorted other cables. Since I haven't needed any of these since we last moved house, I threw them in the trashbag without further investigation. Hope there wasn't anything too valuable in there.

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“MP3 Is Not a Crime”

“MP3 Is Not a Crime”

Whadyaknow... The new Squeezebox Receiver is exactly the right size to be covered with one of the old stickers that you used to get with Squeezeboxes before the Logitech buyout, when Slim Devices gave a cut to the EFF.

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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.