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Entries for week beginning July 22, 2007

July 27, 2007

iFuntastic 2.0 released with added features | iPhone Alley

OS X GUI which makes it a piece of piss to add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Those wily hackers!

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Very slow internet browsing - Vista x64 Forums

“netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled” — The magic incantation that stops network performance SUCKING BALLS (at least on the RhymesWithNose network) in Vista.

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July 26, 2007

Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python

Good summary of some of the powerful pieces of Python that are easy to overlook if you’re used to other, let’s say “more verbose”, languages. I’ve been coding in Python for close to three years, and there was stuff I learned here (dict.setdefault: where have you been all my life?)

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RussellBeattie.com - I Am Jabber Powered!

Good summary of why Jabber is awesome and the future of IM. I have to admit, I didn’t “get it” until I installed my own XMPP server and was able to hack up a bot in Python with about 20 lines of code.

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Twibright Optar

Codec allowing you to reliably back your data up to dead-tree. You can print about 200kb to a sheet of A4, then scan it in later to retrieve your data.

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think

Just picked this up, and a quick skim shows it’s something a bit special: Learn good coding practices by reading experts choice of “the most beautiful code they’ve seen”, with plenty of commentary. I’m halfway tempted to take a day off next week and just sit and read this all day.

How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life

Excellently skeptical article on companies’ presence in Second Life. “You might wonder what Coke is doing in such a place. “It had a lot to do with hype,” admits Michael Donnelly.”

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The Douche Card

Forget Moo Cards… *these* will be the essential wicked-classy cards to hand out at future Web Innovator Groups.

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War Stories

CD Purchase: UNKLE - War Stories

July 25, 2007

Human Brain Cloud

Massively-multiplayer word association game. The Flash graphs are particularly gorgeous.

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Official Gmail Blog: Help make a Gmail video

Fun little collaborative video project from GMail.

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Boston Red Sox - Red Sox connecting with their cut-off man - The Boston Globe

“Each of these guys is like a character, and each one has their thing — Papi’s beard, [Dustin] Pedroia’s sideburns, [Mike] Lowell’s little mustache,” says LMontro, sipping lemonade before a recent game. “The Yankees are all shaved and boring.”

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THE HELLO EXPERIMENT

Answering the question on many people’s minds… If you were blind and tried to make a clay bust of Lionel Richie (like in that 80’s mawk-fest video for Hello), how would it turn out?

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The Wesabe Firefox Uploader

Cool solution to the problem of automatically download bank statements from the gazillion different financial institutions out there: Easily scripting Firefox to download them for you. Well played, Wesabe. Well played.

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YouTube - "Thriller"

Best video on YouTube? Possibly. 1,500 prisoners in the Phillipines performing the dance routine from the Thriller video.

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July 24, 2007

You Park Like an Asshole

Printed out a few of these flyers to keep in the glove compartment for when they’re needed.

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Django Master Class

Bunch of interesting topics covered at the Django tutorial at OSCON yesterday. I hadn’t heard of Django signals before, but can already think of three hacks in my code that they can replace!

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July 23, 2007

Linux.com :: Latest Mozilla Sunbird is a well-connected calendar

Sunbird is flourishing into a good-citizen calendaring client. Syncs both-ways with Google Calendar, which is handy.

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Exploiting the iPhone

The inevitable first iPhone security flaw announcement. Notable for how frankly *non* sensationalist it is.

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Sunset at McCoy

Sunset at McCoy

Curt Schilling pitches in Pawtucket

Curt Schilling pitches in Pawtucket

No. 38 making a rehab start at the Red Sox's AAA team.

Del’s Frozen Lemonade

Del’s Frozen Lemonade

Frankly, it boggles my mind that coffee milk was made the official Rhode Island state drink over this delicious concoction.

July 22, 2007

Real World Racer: A Google Maps Racing Game

Best use of Google Maps yet?

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Cute Overload: Seriously hungry, hungry hippo

I want a hippo for a pet! I’m sure Bacon and Clyde wouldn’t mind.

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shirt.woot.com

Oh lordy — Woot launch a Different-T-Shirt-Every-Day shop. My credit card quakes in fear.

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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.