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Entries for week beginning December 26, 2010

January 1, 2011

New but Old Movies, with Anna and Bobbie: No. 1 – the Sound of Music

Anna livetweet’s her boyfriend’s reaction to seeing The Sound of Music for the first time. “This has been on for 52 minutes? Where are the Nazis?! YOU SAID THERE WERE NAZIS. This is all SINGING.”

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December 31, 2010

The @DresdenDolls

The @DresdenDolls

December 30, 2010

The Best Tech Writing of 2010

Gentlemen, start your Instapapers!

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Lending Kindle Books

Just launched, Amazon now let you “lend” Kindle books. A fab feature, but sadly crippled in this (initial?) form.

1) You need to initiate the process from Amazon.com — you can’t do it from a Kindle
2) Publishers have the right to disable lending, and a quick scan through my Kindle purchases show that most large publishers have blanket blocks in place.
3) Loans are currently limited to 14 days, and you can lend a book once and only once. Publishers currently cannot adjust these limits.

Despite these gripes, this is clearly a big step in the right direction. Hopefully this is just Amazon’s first stab at shifting the digital-media-lending Overton window.

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CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage

Interesting post-mortem on the Skype downtime last week. Due to a bug in the client version used by 50% of their users (which had already been patched in a newer release), a small server overload feedbacklooped into taking out their entire P2P system.

An increasing number of services are forcibly updating their users clients (most notably, Google Chrome, which pushes releases to users without notification or interaction). How long until we reach a point that this is the norm?

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December 29, 2010

Polar bears get the better of spy cameras

In related news, polar bears are FUCKING AWESOME AND DON’T TAKE NO SHIT FROM NO ONE!

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December 27, 2010

Zoo diptic

Zoo diptic

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

A siberian tiger "opening" its "presents". It struggled with the challenge of getting into the cardboard boxes containing a hambone and some meat.

Lesson learned: If you're ever chased by a tiger, hiding in a cardboard box will gain you an extra three or four minutes before you're mauled.

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Joy and some animal I don't remember the name of.

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

A good indication of just how soggy and wet a day it was.

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

"GO GIANTS"

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

The koala was clearly THRILLED about Christmas

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

The 15 foot anaconda only gets fed once a month, so we were very lucky to be there to watch it constrict a (already dead) rat and drag it into the water to drown it.

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Merry Christmas Uulu!

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Grizzly apple-bobbin'

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Grizzly swimmin'

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Christmas Day at SF Zoo

Grizzly plottin'


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.