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Entries for Wednesday, November 25, 2009

➠ November 25, 2009

Love the new Kindle boot screen

The "relaxing with a book against a tree" motif is such a perfectly romanticized vision of reading. Far better than the regular reality of where I read: crammed on the piss-smell-filled Muni.

Filed under : amazon : kindle

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Smart-assed skeptic…

I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of Amazon's new "PayPhrase" system (How is this phrase and a PIN easier than entering my email + password, exactly?) But I am quite pleased with the phrase they let me use (after filtering out all my profane first attempts)

Filed under : amazon.com : monkey man will MAKE you believe : penn & teller : screenshot

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Ommwriter

Oh my, this is rather lovely. A distraction-removing full-screen text editor (similar to WriteRoom), with a lovely background and jangly music!

Filed under : download : free : os x : writing

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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.