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Entries for week beginning October 8, 2006

October 13, 2006

YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore

Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words “hybrid pimpmobile”

digg - Generate Block Sentences with 1 or 3 lines per letter

The yoof of today discover ASCII art. Someone’s gonna show them figlet, and they’re minds will be _blown_.

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October 12, 2006

Jobless man asks judge for jail time - CNN.com

Too old to get a job, but not old enough for social security? “Rob” a bank, and get the state to provide your food and shelter.

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It’s Great When You’re Straight, Yeah! Photomosaic

It’s Great When You’re Straight, Yeah!  Photomosaic

The cover art for Black Grape's It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah!, made up from untouched cover art from 900 other albums. View in full size for the full effect.

Made with AndreaMosaic

Screamadelica Photomosaic

Screamadelica Photomosaic

The cover art for Primal Scream's iconic Screamadelica, made up from untouched cover art from 400 other albums. View in full size for the full effect. Add notes if you recognise anything!

Made with AndreaMosaic

AndreaMosaic Home Page

Really frickin’ good Photomosaic-making software. I’ve been having lots of fun with this, using around 15,000 album covers as the “tiles”, and it does an bang-up job, without “cheating” by tinting or repeating images (like some other software does).

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Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org)

Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It’s a decent-ish camera, and a great phone.

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October 11, 2006

The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events

CD Purchase: Gothic Archies - The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events

Marie Antoinette

CD Purchase: Original Soundtrack - Marie Antoinette

YouTube - Grind House Trailer

Trailer for the upcoming Tarantino/Rodriguez flick. Could be awesome. Could be a train wreck. But it _does_ feature Rose McGowan with a machine gun for a leg.

Rolling Stone Rock and Roll Daily » Pete Doherty Watch

Handy Flash widget to help you keep track of what everyone’s favourite whacky crackjunkie is up to.

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October 10, 2006

Qloud

Some kind of weird audioscrobbler-type thing, that allows you to deal with Tags inside iTunes. Or something. Their site is incomprehensibly flashy and slidey and swoopy and I only got five hours sleep last night.

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My Flickr Moo Cards

My Flickr Moo Cards

A mixture of Boston, Bassets and a Bunch of other stuff. They look great, especially considering most of the photos were taken with crappy cameraphones!

Sadly, two of the twenty images I uploaded got printed as "Unavailable photo:" Not sure what caused that, but I'm gonna ping Moo and see what happened.

Open Source madness!

Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.

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My last.fm chart arcs

My last.fm chart arcs

Funky visualization of my music listening over time from MartinD at last.fm. Read his explanation to understand what it means, or just enjoy the soothing colours.

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Amazon.co.uk: The Best of "Smash Hits"

Compilation of classic 80s features from ver Hits. Note to anyone not sure what to get me for my birthday: I MUST own this!

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Decorated Trunks

Decorated Trunks

Someone's been decorating the tree trunks around Union Square.

October 9, 2006

OpenPandora

Player for Pandora which supports the multimedia keys on keyboards, minimizes to your system tray, and uploads your track info to last.fm.

TIP Using screen - Gentoo Linux Wiki

More in-depth screen-fu from the Gentoo Wiki. screen is now officially my favourite Linux utility EVER! (of the week).

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You’re It! » MacBook as tag cloud

Brilliant idea! Print your del.icio.us tag cloud onto a massive vinyl sticker at PimpMyLaptop, then cover your MacBook with it. Easy way to advertise your interests in meatspace.

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‘Best’ of Boston?

‘Best’ of Boston?

This is odd. Dunkin Donuts cups currently proclaim that they were awarded a "Best of Boston" award by Boston Magazine this year. However, a search of the Best of Boston site finds no such win.

In fact, it appears that the "award" was merely a corporate agreement to use the cup on the magazine cover.

I love DD as much as the next New Englander, but since the "Best of Boston" usually _means_ something (unlike some other awards, which just rank which business did the best job getting their customers to ballot-stuff), it seems massively lame to whore the title this way.

youngpup.net - Say Hello to Halfnote

Rather spiffy browser-based TODO.TXT from Aaron “Greasemonkey” Boodman. Minimal, secure, distributed, and AJAXtastic.

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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Reverse PIN Panic Code

Claim: Entering one’s PIN in reverse at any ATM will summon the police. “I’m not sure anyone here could remember their PIN numbers backward with a gun to their head.”

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October 8, 2006

Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke

Because all too often, the subtle humour of Marmaduke requires explaining.

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Erik J. Heels » Pity The Yankees

Since the Sox didn’t make the playoffs, all we have to fall back on is sweet sweet schadenfreude. After reading Moneyball, I’m rooting for the Oakland A’s.

YouTube - New BBC One Ident Montage

Montage of the eight new idents for BBC One continuity announcements. The “hippos” one (starts at 3:35) is my favourite by far.

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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.