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Entries for week beginning January 25, 2009

January 29, 2009

Plaxo's Personal Card: Introducing Two-Click Signup, an initiative to improve the user experience of OpenID; first test now live with Google

This is good: The underlying goodness of OpenID, used in a way which completely hides itself from the user.

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Sequence of man falling on ice - Boston.com

Why I’m glad I’m not in Boston. (Though the arc of Dunkin Donuts coffee is making me somewhat “homesick”)

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January 28, 2009

The Fountain Jet Home Soda Maker From Soda-Club

Soda Streams are back. Back. BACK! Sold with an ecological twist (less recycling and less vehicular transport than cans or bottle of soda), it’s actually pretty tempting.

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Zero Punctuation : Gears of War 2

Best Zero Punctuation in a while, not least for introducing me to the phrase “triple-cunted hooker”.

ReactOS

ReactOS

Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.

(Okay, not really their fault! I chose to "upgrade" their demo VM when VMware prompted me. If you don't do that, it works OK)

(Also, the video is sped up by Flickr. Bug reported here.)

ReactOS

Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.

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Cosmo Catalano: Tom Champion "snow emergency" remix

As a former Somervillain, this makes me very happy.

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10 iPhone Games You Must Own | Wired.com

The games on this list that I’ve played have all been top-notch, so I’ll have to sample a few more.

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Closure.

Awesome atmospheric platformer, where you can only stand on what you can see.

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January 27, 2009

Amazon recommendations

Amazon recommendations

Anyone want to hazard a guess at what I was looking at that garnered these recommendations?

* A pink camera
* A PD James novel
* Headphones
* Twin pack of nipples

baconcamp

Move over CupcakeCamp, we may have a new challenger for “Best *Camp EVAH!”

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Iconfactory : Somatic Rebirth Apps

Gorgeous replacement application icons for OS X. (See also the Somatic system set) Replacing my “Litho” icons now!

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The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises

A scorecard for tracking President Obama’s campaign promises. A great idea.

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XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Prevention Cheat Sheet - OWASP

Essential reading if you write webapps.

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FoxTab

Best Firefox extension I’ve seen so far in the “attractive tab-switcher thumbnailing” category.

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January 26, 2009

Dive into Python 3

Mark Pilgrim is updating Dive into Python for the new version of the language. Farewell, chapter on SOAP Web Services. You will not be missed.

BBC NEWS | Stephen Fry's 50,000 followers

Stephen Fry explains Twitter.

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January 25, 2009

You Look Nice Today AGM

You Look Nice Today AGM

Merlin Mann recaps a disappointing year for @ylnt. Snare, Baby on a Dog, and The Fishstick: all lost money. :(

Jordan, Jesse Go

Jordan, Jesse Go


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.