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Entries for week beginning June 18, 2006
➠ June 24, 2006
View from the State Street Pavillion
Managed to get a pair of "Standing Room" tickets in the "State Street Pavillion" at Fenway. Since it was a pretty grey day, not everyone had shown up, so we had seats for the whole game. Result!
➠ June 23, 2006
Guardian Unlimited | Supposing . . . It's OK to lie for the sheer hell of it
“Get angry if they don’t believe you. They will eventually. They always do.”
➠ June 21, 2006
Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos
Does what it says on the tin. Pitchfork scoured YouTube for 100 awesome videos, skipping over your usual suspects like Jonez, Cunningham and Gondry.
DIRECTV - TITANIUM
Get every single thing DirecTV broadcasts for a $7,500 annual payment. How much pr0n would you have to watch to break even on this deal?
beforethirty: managers job
Application for the position of Middlesborough Football Club, based on “vast experience (on Football Manager 2005)”. Gets an excellent response.
➠ June 20, 2006
Daring Fireball: Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive
“The industry’s idea of a “perfect” DRM scheme is one that is not controlled by either Apple or Microsoft, and which gives only them (the record industry) complete control over what users can do with their downloads. Such a scheme does not exist, and it does not exist because it isn’t possible.”
➠ June 19, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Guardian offers downloadable news digest
Grauniad to offer easily-print-outable on-demand PDF news digest.
➠ June 18, 2006
Luggage Tags - with Attitude
“I’m Pretty Sure This Isn’t Your Bag”, “Nothing Worth Stealing In Here”, and more.
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.