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Entries for week beginning September 7, 2008
➠ September 13, 2008
Frost/Nixon trailer
Oh man, this looks so fucking good.
Beep Beep (Part Two) - The Fishbowl
A great quote tucked away in the footnote: ‘Whenever you feel your opinion on software productivity, DRM, Mac vs PC vs Linux… or pretty much anything regularly discussed on the Internet has any chance of being meaningfully debated in the wider world, it helps to point at your computer and say to yourself: “the rest of the world calls that the hard drive”’
Hello, I Am the Control Panel
Inside a solar-powered, geo-coding, flickr-photo-uploading, purple bicycle.
Seth & Ben present FireEagle
Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API
The marvelous, non-functioning projector making his life harder.
➠ September 12, 2008
Hack Day Display
Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.
Django: the web framework for ponies with magical powers
Django finally has the mascot it deserves.
Stumper : The Politics of Stupidity
“Years from now presidential historians will look back on Sept. 9 as the day the 2008 campaign got completely and utterly stupid.” I felt massively depressed on Wednesday, as the pig/lipstick and kiddie-sex-ed trains swiftboated on.
Dopplr Blog: Find and invite your existing social networks
Dopplr have open-sourced their Ruby code to find your contacts and friends on social networks. They do a great job with it, so this’ll be worth keeping an eye on until “Portable Contacts” takes off.
Stephen & the Colberts in Rock Band
Available now as a free download. A payback for that Rush playing Rock Band viral?
➠ September 11, 2008
LHC Webcams
If anyone you know is worried about the Large Hadron Collider, send them a link to these webcams. They should feel reassured.
➠ September 10, 2008
BBC NEWS | Girls Aloud win £20 single prize
The BBC does a decent write-up of the behind-the-scenes politicking of THE music prize that matters — Popjustice’s Twenty Quid Music Prize.
➠ September 9, 2008
History of the browser user-agent string
Or how we got from “NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)” to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13”
Mogwai Fear Satan
➠ September 7, 2008
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.