I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!
This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Entries for week beginning August 3, 2008
➠ August 9, 2008
Official Braid Walkthrough and Cheats
Braid, the stonking painty platformy puzzley game released on XBox live this week, has an official walkthrough. Make sure and read the second page of it. Inspired!
➠ August 8, 2008
Giants lager mitts
Enjoy drinking beer, but tired of the inevitable handcramps from holding the bottle? Get your SF Giants Lager Mitt from the stand at MoMo's, across from AT&T Park.
➠ August 6, 2008
➠ August 5, 2008
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
I’ve always hated “Clear”, the pay-$100-to-skip-to-the-front-of-the-security-line card. Firstly, because it’s private enterprise falsely dressed as security, and secondly because it creates a class system at the airport line. So my socialist side is smug to see the bourgeoisie get its comeuppance. Have fun changing your biometrics, folks.
➠ August 4, 2008
Movie box office charts
Nice streamy visualisations showing movie box office sales over time.
Deep Fried Scotland
Short video review of all that is great about Scottish cuisine: Deep-frying. Helpfully subtitled.
➠ August 3, 2008
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture
I’m bored of “beauty in nature” — Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole.
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.