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Entries for week beginning May 24, 2009
➠ May 29, 2009
Hulu - Peep Show
Attention Americans with senses of humour (sic): Hulu are now streaming the first series of top-notch British sitcom Peep Show. You should watch it, because it is bloody funny, and only mildly uncomfortably close to the bone.
➠ May 28, 2009
Floppy Disk CDRs
Square CD-Rs, printed to look like 3.5” floppies. No sign if punching a hole in the top-left corner doubles their capacity.
Hitler tries a DMCA takedown
Brad Templeton makes a point about Fair Use of the Downfall clip… as subtitles on the Downfall clip. The first Downfall parody I’ve laughed at in a while.
➠ May 27, 2009
Panic Sale!
Them Panic lads know how to make compelling advertising.
Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: 'Let's Move In Together' | The Onion
An obvious and hackneyed joke, but beautifully played out by the Onion News Network.
You ask, they answer: Neals Yard Remedies
Neals Yard, purveyors of finest homeopathic placebos and quackery, offer to take questions from the Grauniad blog readers. The Bad Science crowd descends, and 24 hours later, no answers are forthcoming.
“I’ve been soaking a £20 note in a bathfull of water for the last few days, is it ok to pay for an order using my new homeopathic money? I now seem to have rather a lot of it.”
➠ May 26, 2009
Buy Cameron's house from Ferris Bueller's Day Out
Ferrari 250 GT sold separately.
SuperPoke! Pets Masterpiece Collection
I got postcards printed by Moo.com of some designs from the SuperPoke! Pets masterpiece collection. Damn, our designers are talented.
➠ May 25, 2009
The breathtaking view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Hawk Hill
Try to imagine it without the fog, I suppose.
➠ May 24, 2009
Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation
Mozilla Labs is launching a sort of Greasemonkey++ — in addition to tweaking web pages, you get some limited control over the browser chrome. Will be interesting to watch this grow
Daring Fireball: The Next iPhone
John Gruber’s expectations for what the next iPhone will hold. I’ve long said that I’d happily pay a premium for an iPhone with a decent camera, so that’s the only thing I’m hoping for.
Essentially Odd: A Catalog of Products Created For and Sold at the 826 Stores
A catalog of some of the beautiful, bizarre and hilarious items on sale at 826 storefronts nationwide. Amazon says it’s not out til August 1st, but 826 Valencia had them in stock today, and I picked up a copy.
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.