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Entries for week beginning February 10, 2008
➠ February 16, 2008
Audiosurf: Ride Your Music
An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!
➠ February 14, 2008
chumby: barack obama is your new bicycle
Hooray! Just what I wanted!
Vara Software : ScreenFlow
Really rather sweet Mac screencasting software. The post-capture editing tools look handy.
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
Collected facts about Barack Obama. This needs to be a Chumby app.
My upcoming trips on DOPPLR
Can you spot the connection between all my upcoming trips? To Toronto, Baltimore, New York and St Petersburg (in the Tampa bay). (Clue)
S'gonna be a fun season!
➠ February 13, 2008
Pepsi launches 'healthy' option
Pepsi launches an all-“natural” version of Pepsi in a limited trial. Of course, it’s just as unhealthy, being massively full of sugar, but we can all pretend it’s better for you.
➠ February 12, 2008
YouTube - Rabbit Rescue
Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.
18 Smokin' Hot Business Card Designs
Varied mix of designs for business cards, plus links to suggestions for what to put on them. Spurred me on to creating something nicer than Moo Cards for when I’m attempting to be “professional”.
Late Night: Behind the Brawl
Outtakes from last week’s Late Night where Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart killed time/entertained the nation (delete as appropriate) by brawling.
Android in Harvard Square
If you’re interested in developing for Google’s new cellphone platform, there’s a developer day in Cambridge in a couple of weeks. Wonder if the iPhone SDK will be out by then too? Would be interesting to compare-and-contrast.
➠ February 11, 2008
Spongebob Voice-Overs
The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality!
➠ February 10, 2008
ongoing: XML People
Fascinating account of the people (and corporations) involved in the creation of XML (which was published ten years ago today)
Scenes from CPAC: Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising edition | Economist.com
Photos of some of the delightful treats on sale this week at the “Conservative Political Action Conference”. Mmmm… misogynriffic!
Mitt Drops Out | The Daily Show
Jon Stewart uses the exact same words as I did when I read Mitt Romney’s dropping-out speech. (Spoiler: “FUCK YOU!”)
Lola Boston - A Woman's Guide to Boston
The Globe’s fine marketing folks apparently decided that the perfect name for their new women’s supplement was that of the transvestite from the Kinks song.
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.