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October 5, 2010

xkcd: Online Communities 2

Just glorious. The lifeboats from Digg to Reddit are a nice touch.

September 21, 2009

Randall Munroe and Alexis Ohanian

Randall Munroe and Alexis Ohanian

xkcd book reading event for the EFF.

September 9, 2009

Electronic Frontier Foundation: xkcd Book Reading

Fundraiser in SF in a few weeks for the EFF — Randall Munroe of xkcd will be doing a book reading and answering questions from Reddit. I’ve signed up for the meet & greet.

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January 4, 2009

xkcd - Converting to Metric

I’m not sure why Americans think this is so hard…

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October 9, 2008

xkcd: Youtube Audio Preview

YouTube implements a feature that featured in an xkcd comic last week. In response, current.com is looking into including velociraptor protection in our next patch release.

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July 16, 2008

Running for Office: It's Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner

An information architect explains his reasons for running for state office in Kansas, in an xkcd stylee. Worth sending $8.34 to.

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January 14, 2008

xkcd : ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat

An interesting way to moderate IRC chat: Only allow unique new sentences to be spoken.

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December 14, 2007

YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe

Talk and Q&A given at Google by Randall Munroe, author of XKCD. Notable for a question from Donald Knuth about 22 minutes in!

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December 5, 2007

xkcd - Python

“You’re flying! How?” “Python!”

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October 10, 2007

xkcd - Exploits of a Mom

“Did you really name your son “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;—” ?”

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July 18, 2007

People playing chess on roller coasters

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

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May 16, 2007

xkcd - IN UR REALITY

“Oh, Hi; I’m here from the internet.”

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January 24, 2007

xkcd - The Problem with Wikipedia

[Three Hours of Fascinated Clicking]

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September 6, 2006

xkcd t-shirts

I’ve just ordered me a “Just Shy - Not Antisocial” one.

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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.