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Entries for week beginning November 9, 2008
➠ November 15, 2008
➠ November 14, 2008
➠ November 13, 2008
➠ November 11, 2008
Google Flu Trends
Benevolent data-mining of Google’s search logs — but it does raise the question of what else they can predict… Does Google have “insider trading”-esque omnipotence for the whole stock market, for example?
Recycling is Bullshit; Make Nov. 15 Zero Waste Day, not America Recycles Day
Great piece on the wasteful middle-class-guilt-reduction that _is_ recycling. “Recycling is simply the transfer of producer responsibility for what they produce to the taxpayer who has to pick it up and take it away.”
➠ November 10, 2008
Get Your War On: New World Order
“America’s new flag is just a white flag, but there’s a picture of a burning American flag on it.”
➠ November 9, 2008
Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM
I usually don’t much care for FriendFeed, but I have to say that I’m impressed with their implementation of an XMPP bot — especially since the folks at Twitter suggested this week that such a large scale bot is impossible.
2008 Electoral Cartograms
Remoulding the US electoral map based upon population, rather than geographic, size.
My favourite parking lot in California
OK, maybe not as awesome as the Staples/Dunkin Donuts/Pizza Hut triumvirate in Somerville, but an In-n-Out and a Krispy Kreme in such close proximity is truly a thing of beauty.
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.