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Entries for week beginning March 29, 2009
➠ April 3, 2009
Current: Having its feminist cake and eating it too
On the page of the very funny Target Women segment attacking Carl's Jr's sexist advertising campaign, Current.com promotes videos called "Adult Videos", "InfoMania: Spring Break" (illustrated with a girl in a bikini) and "Taxes and BOOBS" in the hope of snaring some precious pageviews.
Updated to add some clarification:
It's not so much the *content* offending me as the salacious titling of segments with a goal of getting page views seeming hypocritical when paired with Sarah's segment.
Attempting to profit from a funny, well-argued segment attacking mindless misogyny while simultaneously pushing content by giving a video a misleading title and thumbnail just strikes me as duplicitous and makes me embarrassed to be a champion of Current.
➠ April 2, 2009
Singapore Zoo's baby Malayan tapir brings its tapir total to eight
BABY TAPIR!
(This has been a test of the Emergency Tapir Network.
Jenny Mccarthy Body Count
Counting the illnesses and deaths that could have been prevented by the MMR vaccines that Jenny McCarthy (and others) advise parents not to give their children.
➠ April 1, 2009
SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
“Developing websites for other browsers than IE6 is just pure pain! The tables just don’t display the way they do in IE6.”
Our friend Cheryl is awesome
A mystery UPS sticky on the door turned out to be for this fantastic Fenway Park print, a surprise gift from our friend Cheryl (shortly to be appearing in Boston in The Superheroine Monologues). This will be hung in our apartment with pride.
➠ March 31, 2009
➠ March 30, 2009
Circumventing Adobe ADEPT DRM for EPUB
A pair of interesting Python scripts. One of which grabs your decryption key from the Windows version of “Adobe Digital Editions”, the other using the exported key to decrypt legitimately purchased eBooks and output DRM-free copies.
I imagine if one were to use them in conjunction with some sort of ePub -> Mobi converter (such as the open source “calibre”), one could purchase eBooks which are not available for the Kindle, conduct some sort of potentially illegal (Fuck you DMCA) wizardry, and enjoy reading said eBooks on the portable device of one’s choosing.
Unrelated: Currently reading “The Damned Utd” by David Peace on my Kindle.
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.