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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
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Entries for week beginning April 15, 2007
➠ April 21, 2007
“Boston Runs On Big Papi”
➠ April 20, 2007
Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History
Splendid article explaining the whats and wherefores of Google’s new “Web History” feature, so you don’t have to install it to experiment.
➠ April 19, 2007
disinfographics (tecznotes)
The highlights of Don Hincliffe’s loony “info” graphics which “explain” Web 2.0. I think my favourite is “The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites”. It’s gorgeously demented.
twttr sketch on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The origin of Twitter (or Twttr as then was) in papery form. Seems I was quite accurate when I first saw it and described it as “the way my friends and I used to use our AIM Away messages to pass on information and injokes.”
Official Google Blog: Your slice of the web
Somewhere between kinda-cool and terrifying: Allow Google to know Every Single Page you visit, and they’ll let you search against them. Yes, useful, but there’s no need for this to happen on Google’s servers in the sky.
Corner.js
Add nice corners and shadows to your images with just a smidge of JavaScript.
"groovy mother" :: First Post!
Lummy! It’s been five years since I started writing on groovymother.com. Gonna have to spend some time this weekend doing visualizations of my post history.
Pug Hat on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
“Look, you guys, when the world is divided into who has Pug Hats and who does not, I will really miss you and write every day. “
Toys "R" Us - Beaker Muppets 18" Posable Plush
Love the “features” on this. (Found while playing around on the renamed “Google Product Search”)
➠ April 18, 2007
Public safety hang-ups - The Boston Globe
The Scottsdale, AZ police department is running recruiting ads in the mens room at Fenway Park. I saw one last week, but really didn’t think it was an appropriate time to whip out my cellphone and take a photo.
Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)
Bunch of handy GMail Greasemonkey scripts bundled up into one tasty Firefox extension.
Format War Soliders: Sync'd HD-DVD Purchase by Fanboys Spike Amazon Rank, Blu-Rayers Set To Retaliate - Gizmodo
A couple of hundred HD-DVD fanboys did an organized reverse-boycott, all purchasing HD-DVD discs on Amazon on the same day to try and prove… something. Not quite sure what. Really it emphasizes how lousy both formats are doing that a sales graph can be moved so dramatically by a few hundred customers.
➠ April 17, 2007
Port 25 : Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download
From the “about bloody time” file, a plugin from Microsoft for Firefox which allows WMV files to stream in your browser. This has been broken (and required lots of DLL copying) for years.
Boing Boing (and Xeni in particular): Please STFU.
Dear Boing Boing, If I wanted half-assed rumours, guesses and pointless speculation relating to yesterday’s VT shooting, I’d turn on any of the 24-hour “news” channels. In the meantime, I’m reactivating my Xeni filter.
DNA11 - From Life Comes Art
Get rather spiffy looking wall-art produced, based upon the DNA of you and your loved ones. A “snip” at $390+
➠ April 16, 2007
YouTube Video Only | userstyles.org
Greasemonkey script to remove all the crap from YouTube pages that isn’t the video.
The 2007 Lyttle Lytton Contest
Ah, these make me laugh every single year. The worst possible novel-starts, in 25-words-or-less. My favourite is “Ah, poetic Paris: with its pâtés and beaujolais, tiramisu and au jus.”
Google Reader Theme // journal // hicksdesign
Cool re-skinning of Google Reader to make it more like a Mac desktop app, using only CSS.
The Fishbowl: Product Activation Sucks
“Product activation sucks. It sucks because your continued use of the software you purchased is forever dependent on the continued availability of the license server. And it sucks because your license can be unilaterally revoked because someone, somewhere has decided you must be a pirate.”
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.