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Entries for week beginning December 18, 2005
➠ December 24, 2005
Double Feature Finder
Nifty tool to find yourself pairs of movies with close finish & start times. This will make our Boxing Day cinema trip much easier to plan.
➠ December 23, 2005
Basset Hound socks
A gift to me from Joy. Because christmas just wouldn't be christmas without a jaw-droppingly ugly pair of bad-taste socks.
Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious - T-Shirt
Rawk! Fantastic t-shirt commemorating my favourite line from “Lazy Sunday”. Ordered!
Wikipedia, academia and Seigenthaler
Great post by danah boyd about what Wikipedia is and isn’t good for — Make sure and read Jimmy Wales’s steak-knife metaphor. My equation: Full correct information > incomplete information > incorrect information > no information. Wikipedia is nowhere near perfect, but as a free resource it’s fucking amazing. And I’ve read it more than I ever touched the full Britannica collection my parents had when I was a kid.
➠ December 22, 2005
➠ December 21, 2005
Official Google Blog: Setting trends
Google now give you some stats on your searches if you turn on Personalized Search, but the results for me were pretty dull — Turns out I rarely repeat a search.
ESPN.com - MLB - Yankees snatch Damon away from rival Red Sox
Everyone’s been expecting this for months, but it looks like it’s official: Johnny Damon will be in pinstripes come April.
➠ December 20, 2005
Teaching "Intelligent Design" in US public schools is unconstitutional [PDF]
The 139-page ruling. My favourite bit starts on page 31, and explains how “Of Pandas And People” (the “textbook” that kids in Dover were supposed to read as part of their biology class) had the word “creationism” search-n-replaced to “intelligent design” after the 1987 ruling saying teaching “creationism” was unconstitutional. These fundamentalist fuckwits are shameless.
➠ December 19, 2005
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.