Rod Begbie

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Entries for week beginning May 18, 2008

➠ May 24, 2008

Biggest Drawing in the World

An artist uses the planet as his canvas, sketching a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-tracking briefcase around the world.

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Manny, not getting HR 499

Manny, not getting HR 499

Yes yes, I realise I probably jinxed him by deciding to film this at-bat. Hoping he hits 499 and 500 at tomorrow's game.

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I suppose my seat was *alright*

I suppose my seat was *alright*

I was five rows behind home plate at McAfee Coliseum last night for the Sox/A's game. Not a great game by any measure, but it was fun to be in a seat where it felt like the players could conceivably hear you when you shouted your support/abuse.

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➠ May 23, 2008

Owls - Weebl's Stuff

I try hard to resist linking to every single animation Weebl posts, but this one was too good not to share.

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MOO.com | API

Moo’s printing services made available through an API. Generate the graphics and text you want, shove em over to Moo as XML, and they’ll handle the checkout and fulfillment. (Revenue sharing is promised for the future)

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➠ May 22, 2008

Treasure Island Music Festival

Awesome looking two-day music festival in San Francisco — Justice, Goldfrapp, Spiritualized and The Raconteurs are amongst the acts. Tickets go on sale next week.

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PuzzleManiak

Great puzzle collection for the (jailbrokened) iPhone. Some are a bit fiddly to play with your finger as stylus, but overall they’re a lot of fun.

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Nom Nom Obama

Makes me smile every time I look at it.

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➠ May 21, 2008

Clutch

Web remote-control plugin for the Transmission bittorrent client. Very handy.

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Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Interesting attempt by MSNBC to visualize (their own) RSS feeds.

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➠ May 20, 2008

Doctor Who - Steven Moffat Takes Charge

This is amazingly good news. Steven Moffat (writer of Coupling and Press Gang, as well as the best episodes of “new” Doctor Who) is taking over as lead writer. I’m giddy at the prospect of what’s to come.

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➠ May 19, 2008

Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter attention sp...

Digest of the most-favourited tweets, with a “webcock-free” twist. Some great examples of what can be achieved with 140 characters.

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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.

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