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 November 29, 2009
➠ December 5, 2009
Oh, huge ignored pile of Yellow Pages
You're so very, very obsolete.
➠ December 4, 2009
Unhenged: A Coverville Tribute to Spinal Tap
I love Love LOVE the Coverville podcast, and here’s the Spinal Tap tribute album they’ve compiled.
The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009
Posted without comment, for fear of offending about 60% of the people I know in San Francisco.
➠ December 3, 2009
➠ December 2, 2009
Is Porn's Bad Reputation Overstated? - CNBC
“Lajeunesse initially had hoped to conduct the research with men in their twenties who had never seen porn. “We couldn’t find any,” he says.”
➠ December 1, 2009
The kind of happiness you can only truly get with a beard
themeleon :: Twitter Profile Designer by COLOURlovers
Lovely lovely lovely! I’ve been using COLOURlovers patterns to decorate my Twitter profile for some time. Their new “themeleon” lets you customize and tweak in-place then upload directly to Twitter.
BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage
Oh, BBC Radio, I could kiss you sometimes. A thirty minute show about science and comedy from Robin Ince and Brian Cox? With Dara O’Briain as a guest? And available as a podcast? YES PLEASE!
➠ November 30, 2009
➠ November 29, 2009
Waze
Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.
Bands of color in four directions & all combinations, 1971
After the disappointment of the King Tut exhibit, it was fab to find a piece of art which made me smile, and erupted every geek OCD cortex in my brain!
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.