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Entries for week beginning February 5, 2006
➠ February 11, 2006
➠ February 10, 2006
London Underground Anagram Map
Genius! Getting from “Queer Spank” to “Erect Bone” requires a four zone ticket.
➠ February 8, 2006
Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate
As prophesized in Freakonomics, an extremely usable web database of house market values. Realtors have just become 50% less necessary. Hooray.
VMWare Server
Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I’m almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work — Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machine. Also gets around the “You can’t create an image” limitation of the free VMWare Player app.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Joy & I saw this on Broadway last weekend, and absolutely loved it. Both funny and moving, and the theatre is brilliantly decked out like a school gymnasium, inside and out! Highly recommended.
Rentaghost The Musical - UK Theatre Production
Classic British kids TV show turned into a touring musical by Joe Pasquale! (via my sister, whose email had the subject line “Yes, really”)
➠ February 7, 2006
Refund Please
Keep track of items you purchase from Amazon — If they drop the price within 30 days, you can get a quibble-free refund. I got back $9 from them today for four CDs I purchased last month! I might try and make a bookmarklet or GreaseMonkey script to handle this automagically.
Malcolm Gladwell: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling.
Excellent, fascinating Malcolm Gladwell article about the uselessness of “profiling” as a tool to attack crime.
coComment - clear conversation in the blogosphere
Interesting solution to the problem of knowing if anyone’s replied to a comment you’ve left on someone else’s blog.
➠ February 5, 2006
zx spectrum walkthrough - Google Video
Complete video walkthroughs of classic Speccy games (although JSW has clearly been poked to avoid the Attic bug).
Is nothing sacred?
The (rather poorly-received) movie version of trippy 70's on-before-the-BBC-evening-news French animation, The Magic Roundabout, has been re-dubbed for America.
Some of the (mostly piss-poor ex- or current-SNL) vocal talents are horrendous. Whoopi Goldberg as Emintrude? Jimmy motherfuckin' Fallon as Dylan?!?
(Jim Broadbent vs William H Macy as Brian, on the other hand, is too close to call)
But worst of all is the bastardisation of Dougal's name for the movie's title. Clearly America is a little *too* hooked-on-phonics.
Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug
“Simply pour in your coffee or any hot beverage and watch the painstaking work of the founding fathers vanish before your eyes.” Genius!
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.