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Entries for Tuesday, January 10, 2006

January 10, 2006

The two Johns must die

If you’re writing music playback code that you’re going to have to keep running and debugging and trying to get working, don’t just use a folder of They Might Be Giants MP3s for testing.

Their amusing, quirky tunes will please at first, but on the fiftieth playback you want to punch them repeatedly in their smug, wry, cornish faces.

BBC NEWS | Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?

Round our way, you always pronounced “John Menzies” “John Mingus’s”.

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Weebls Stuff - 100

The awesomely inexplicable Weeble & Bob makes it to 100 episodes. Hooray.

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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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POPJUSTICE ::: Is this the greatest band logo of all time?

Betty Boo and Alex from Blur — Together at last! Oh, this sounds like a fantastic slice of P!O!P! and no mistake.

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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.