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Entries for week beginning January 27, 2008

February 1, 2008

The Collings and Herrin Podcasts

Andrew Collins and Richard Herring are trying out podcasting. Hurrah!

List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia

I’ll take “Companies that have died on the vine” for $400 please, Alex.

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January 31, 2008

Craig Ferguson Takes Citizenship Test

A fellow Scotsman takes the US citizenship test.

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Windows Vista Help: Opening the Windows Vista box

Official Microsoft documentation on how to open the Vista packaging. Because it *needs* documentation.

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ThinkGeek :: 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt

“Proximity Based Geek Lovin’” Amazing! Might get these for me & Joy for valentines day.

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January 29, 2008

What font says 'Change'? - The Boston Globe

Type designers decode the presidential candidates.

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January 28, 2008

Democracy in America | Economist.com

The Economist has an outstanding US Politics blog. In depth, funny and required reading.

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All this online sharing has to stop | Technology | guardian.co.uk

A Modest Proposal supporting the music industry’s calls for ISPs to block filesharing.

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January 27, 2008

Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ

Lots of the questions I have about SLR photography answered.

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Booksthatmakeyoudumb

Comparing SAT scores with colleges’ most popular books according to Facebook. Guess where the Bible ends up on that scale…

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Fuel Economy

US Gov’t fuel economy site, which lets you upload your information and compare MPGs with others. My 2001 Civic’s giving me 30 MPG, and that seems to be pretty reasonable.

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favotter

Collator of favourited Twitters. It’s a bit wonky (it only gathers together favourites by certain users), but there’s some fun stuff in there.

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Michel Gondry Re-creates His Own Trailer For "Be Kind Rewind"

Michel Gondry’s next film involved Jack Black and Mos Def recreating movies amateurishly. Here, Michel Gondry recreates that film’s trailer amateurishly. Genius!

“Enough already!”

“Enough already!”

Clyde imploring me to stop taking photos of him. (Since my class yesterday, I've fired off over 100 shots of him -- these were the only two worth sharing!)

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Regal Clyde

Regal Clyde

Clyde hamming it up for the camera.

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You Suck at Photoshop

Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace!

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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.