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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.

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April 12, 2011

Postagram

iPhone app to take your Instagram snaps and turn them into a mailed postcard for $0.99. Simple and clever hack using the consistency of Instagram pics (always square) to its advantage.

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February 23, 2011

Flickr: retro-space's Photostream

Glorious collection of retrofuturism.

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January 27, 2011

Muppet Balloon Animals

Best thing I’ve seen all week.

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October 6, 2010

instagr.am

Like this app a lot. Best way to describe it is “Visual Twitter”. Crazy simple to quickly snap and share a photo, and get a stream of what your friends are up to. (Also: fellow Dogpatch Labs residents, and Mike is on the Awesome Foundation SF board.)

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June 30, 2010

The Muppet Movie 1978--On The Set!

Behind the scenes photos from the set dresser on the first Muppet movie.

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June 10, 2010

The Evolution of the World Cup Ball

I like that the 1962 ball is called “Mr. Crack”

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April 2, 2010

The Streets of San Francisco ... But Flat?

What San Francisco would look like without hills. Obvious in retrospect, but brilliantly done.

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March 30, 2010

Introducing: VisivoTab

Lovely Google Chrome extension which replaces the “six screenshots” page on new tabs with a great snapshot from Flickr.

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March 25, 2010

Fluidr / RodBegbie's favorites

Loving “Fluidr” as an interface for browing Flickr. Here, check out my Flickr favourites as an example.

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March 20, 2010

THE DOGGIE GAGA PROJECT

Exactly what you think it is.

Exactly as amazing as you think it is.

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September 14, 2009

July 20, 2009

When Barack met Beckett

There is nothing I do not love about this photo — not least the look on Youk’s face!

February 3, 2009

TwitPicGrid

Stream of photos posted to Twitter. Crappy cellphone cameras aplenty, but it’s fascinating to watch.

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I LEGO N.Y.

Surprisingly funny Lego constructions of New York sights.

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January 29, 2009

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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October 23, 2008

Poladroid

Gorgeously playful app which takes your digital photos and makes them look like old Polaroid snaps. Features loving touches like having to wait for the photo to “develop”.

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October 22, 2008

Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist

Some really outstanding photos of Barack Obama and the hubbub surrounding him in the lead-up to him winning the party nomination.

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October 19, 2008

Hot Air Balloon Trip slideshow on Flickr

A handful of photos from Joy’s and my trip in a hot-air balloon, high above “wine country”.

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October 14, 2008

Upside Down Dogs

Dogs, which are upside-down. Duh.

August 13, 2008

Symmetry Explorer

Symmetrize Flickr photos based on tag. Ones that turned out interesting to me were “bassethound”, “kiss”, “hippo” and, disturbingly, “boobs”.

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August 3, 2008

Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture

I’m bored of “beauty in nature” — Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole.

June 29, 2008

Fail Whale sculpture - a set on Flickr

Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!

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June 25, 2008

Sorry I Missed Your Party

Found photos of dreadful-looking celebrations, with appropriately snarky commentary. Ace!

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June 4, 2008

The Big Picture

Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.

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March 11, 2008

compfight

Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view.

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February 22, 2008

Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule

Get an occasional email containing photos you uploaded to your Flickr account a year earlier. Micronostalgia. Lovely!

January 16, 2008

My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)

US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone’s a winner.

December 5, 2007

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Flickr’s new Picnik integration is top-notch — Enough photo-tweaking power for about 80% of the population, I’d guess. And, effectively, a new implementation of “hohohohat”!

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October 11, 2007

Cool Tool: ScanCafe

I’ve been looking for a cost-effective way of converting our wedding photo negatives into digital files for a while, and this looks like it might be the way to go. $0.19 per negative.

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August 21, 2007

YouTube - Image resize

Demo of a wicked-cool smart image-resizing technique, from the SIGGRAPH conference.

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August 1, 2007

Polar Rose

Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There’s no smart matching yet, but that’s promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome.

July 18, 2007

People playing chess on roller coasters

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

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July 1, 2007

Kwik-E-Mart - a photoset on Flickr

To promote the Simpsons movie, a bunch of 7-Elevens have been turned into Kwik-E-Marts — Squishees, Buzz Cola and all. (And Jasper in the freezer)

June 24, 2007

Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver

OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.

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May 8, 2007

Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool

Grocer’s apostrophe spotting’s.

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April 23, 2007

Flickr: 24 hours of Flickr

Day-long photo project on May 5th to create a book and “sponsored event”.

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January 18, 2007

TagMaps - World Explorer

Wicked cool use of Flickr’s geotagging — Overlay maps with the tags most commonly used on photos taken at those locations.

January 4, 2007

Picnik

Wicked nifty-cool Flash-based photo editor for Flickr. Sign up on the webpage, and you should get access within minutes. Tip: Clicking on the Picnik logo in the top-left puts you into full-screen mode.

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November 8, 2006

Flickr: The Wallpapers (1024x768 minimum) Pool

Just the thing to spruce up your desktop.

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November 2, 2006

souvenirs - a photoset on Flickr

An obvious idea, beautifully executed: Perspective replaces a landmark with its souvenir.

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October 19, 2006

My drive home from work -- Geotagged on Flickr

With little regard for public safety, I snapped a bunch of shots with my cellphone on my way home from work, which are lovingly (and automagically) placed along my route via the brilliance of Zonetag and Flickr.

October 12, 2006

AndreaMosaic Home Page

Really frickin’ good Photomosaic-making software. I’ve been having lots of fun with this, using around 15,000 album covers as the “tiles”, and it does an bang-up job, without “cheating” by tinting or repeating images (like some other software does).

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September 19, 2006

moo | we love to print

Moo have launched their Flickr Minicards: Get high-quality personal mini business cards printed with your photos on the back. Flickr Pro account holders can get 10 for free. The website is pretty nifty too.

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September 18, 2006

JPG Magazine: Brave New Photography

Threadless model applied to photography — Submit and/or vote for photos, then see the winners published in deadtree.

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September 4, 2006

Flickr: Explore your geotagged photos on a Map

My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.

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July 19, 2006

Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom

Adobe’s Lightroom photo-processing beta is now available for Windows in addition to OSX.

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June 2, 2006

Photographing Squirrels - a photoset on Flickr

Squirrels + Antique Cameras = CUTE!

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May 21, 2006

10 Ways: Information

Hypnotic infinitely recursive photomosaics.

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May 16, 2006

Flickr: Advanced Photo Search

Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!

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April 27, 2006

Flickr: Photos tagged with valleyschwag

Looks like different folk got different schwag.

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January 23, 2006

Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

Fear and Loathing on the streets of London.

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January 13, 2006

ThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

One of those LCD photoframe dealios, but this one can subscribe to Flickr RSS feed downloaded over Wi-Fi.

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January 10, 2006

Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse

You’ll never forget your first goatse. (Mine was back in 1998, when it was referred to on uk.misc as simply “*that* jpeg”)

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January 8, 2006

flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys

Some fun little games and tools for Flickr users. This is a great example of what your customers can build if you provide a smart, powerful API.

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December 25, 2005

Filling Amazon's Tall Orders | BusinessWeek

Slideshow tour of one of Amazon’s shipping centers.

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December 15, 2005

Cute Overload

Cute animal photo-aggregator blog. Hopefully this isn’t just an elaborate set-up for a goatse-style troll!

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December 8, 2005

TIME Magazine Person of the Year 2005 | Billboard in Times Square NYC

Upload a photo of you (or someone or something else) and Time might flash it up on their “Person of the Year” billboard in Times Square. I uploaded a shot of Bacon, naturally.

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November 26, 2005

beedogs

Does exactly what it says on the can. “Beedogs.com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.”

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October 25, 2005

Flickr.Net Screensaver

Flickr screensaver for Windows. Rather nicely, it displays different photos on each monitor if you’ve got multiple screens.

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October 14, 2005

iStockphoto.com : royalty free stock photography community

Cheaproyalty-free stock photos. Better than searching Flickr for CC’d images which allow commercial use!

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September 24, 2005

FUCK this website

Signs with words covered up by stickers bearing the word “FUCK”. Yes, I am childish enough to find this funny.

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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.