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Entries for Sunday, April 24, 2005

April 24, 2005

Penguins going through Airport Security

Can’t say as I blame the TSA — Have you *seen* the Batman films?

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The Plague!

Fascinating and creepy bit of video, taken from the recent US Gov’t “Emergency” drill TOPOFF3. What the gov’t thinks cable news will look like after a bunch of terrrrist attacks.

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SUPPLIES!

Interesting new addition in OSX Tiger… On every “Print” dialog is a button marked “Supplies”

!http://groovymother.com/images/supplies.png 400×210 (Supplies)!

Clicking it drops you into the Apple Store page for your printer (for example, my HP Laserjet(The Apple Store (U.S.))), ready to give Apple some cash in exchange for more toner.

Fabulous time-saving innovation, or would-get-Microsoft-strung-up-if-they-tried-it tactic?

(Aside: The title of this post is a reference to a joke I loved as a kid, which is sadly too politically-incorrect in this day and age for me to consider posting here. I have no quandries, however, about


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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.

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