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Entries for week beginning October 5, 2008
➠ October 11, 2008
Unicode Snowman for You
Unicode has a codepoint for *snowman*‽ ☃
Sunrise over Niagara St
Up early this morning after falling asleep early last night, and managed to catch this sunrise over our neighbourhood.
Sunrise over Niagara St
Up early this morning after falling asleep early last night, and managed to catch this sunrise over our neighbourhood.
➠ October 10, 2008
30 Reasons
“30 graphic designers create 30 posters and give you their 30 reasons to vote for Barack Obama on November 4th.”
the unbridgeable velvet gap between generation x and generation 5 year old
“Ada: Is it the Muppet show?
Me: No, the Muppet movie!
Ada: Oh man. That’s even worse.”
➠ October 9, 2008
South Beach, Oct 9, 2008
Possibly my favourite thing Kathy Sierra has created.
The Hallway conference room at Current
Making myself feel better by posting some Kathy Sierra graphics around work. I left a couple in the hallway conference room yesterday evening, since there's a "senior staff meeting" there first thing today. Wonder if they'll be removed prior…
➠ October 8, 2008
The Muppet Newsflash: Whatnot Workshop Opens this Month
Wicked awesome — FAO Schwartz has created a Build-a-Bear-like experience for creating “Whatnot” Muppets (the random background artistes of the Muppet world). The at-home experience is particularly clever — you get a set of cards and vinyl clings, put together the Muppet you want, send it in, and they make and ship you your Muppet. Note to my family: Yes, this is what I want for my Christmas.
➠ October 7, 2008
It’s like my entire life has been leading up to this moment…
The real winner of tonight's debate? ME! For managing to spread my "X loves Y like a basset hound love cheese" attempt-at-a-meme to an unsuspecting debate-viewing audience.
➠ October 6, 2008
Twitter / groovylinks
I get annoyed with people who announce their every blog post in their Twitter feeds (if I’m interested, I’ll just subscribe to your blog). But curious to see if there’s a market for it, I’ve created a Twitter user which will announce new links on this site. Follow “him” to get notified.
McLobbyist
Another focused attack site funded by the Obama campaign. I wonder how the return-on-investment compares between these and running 30 second commercials.
John McCain's Record
Another “attack” site from the Obama campaign. Wish there was a bit more hyperlinkage for sources.
Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis
The Obama campaign aren’t resting on their current lead in the polls. This shows promise that they intend to keep fighting all the way to election day.
➠ October 5, 2008
Early Dave: The Letterman Tapes
Compilation of interviews David Letterman gave between 1978 and 1993 — from his LA stand-up days to the end of Late Night.
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.