I am the ghost of groovymother.com. Woooooo!
This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Entries for week beginning June 7, 2009
➠ June 12, 2009
Radio Spiritworld (Inter-dimensional)
“The only station broadcasting from the afterlife to the living world.” 30 minute radio show from Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz.
➠ June 11, 2009
BBC - Changes to international pages
Genuinely bothersome news from Auntie Beeb. They’ve decided to stop letting people outside the US switch to viewing the News site from a UK focus. That was the whole reason why BBC News has been on my browser toolbar since 1998! Hoping this will be reversed.
➠ June 10, 2009
Orphaned Tweets
“When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.” There’s a whole lesson in User Experience right here!
The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past
ZOMG Moral Panic! The things that have doomed America over the last 40 years.
Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
Short story by Robin Sloan (Al Gore’s doppelgänger, dontchaknow) about “recession, attraction, and data visualization”.
➠ June 9, 2009
Obviously pleased with shelf.
Sketched by a co-worker when I was wearing this t-shirt.
➠ June 8, 2009
TomTom for iPhone
One of the more interesting demos at Apple’s keynote today - TomTom are producing an iPhone app, plus a souped-up holster that doubles as charger and GPS “enhancer”. No hints given as to the price, but tealeaf-reading based on TomTom’s previous Palm apps, I’d guess around $150 for the software, and another $100 for the dock.
TwitterCounter Stats for rodbegbie
Can you spot the day that Twitter changed its algorithm for displaying friend icons so that early adopters such as myself didn't get disproportional prominence?
➠ June 7, 2009
Google's Wave of the future is genius, but will it work?
If you don’t have time to watch the Google Wave presentation video (1h20m), read this, Andy Ihnatko’s piece on why it’s got so much potential.
IMDB: Rod Begbie
This cracks me up no end. I now have an IMDB page, thanks to a short film I helped write a few years ago (watchable on the site). Looking forward to when I’m indexed in the Oracle of Bacon.
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.