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Entries for week beginning January 21, 2007

January 27, 2007

Mark Ronson's MySpace page

His covers (and to call them “covers” does them an injustice, they’re *massively awesome* reinterpretations) of Coldplay and Britney Spears are outstanding. Can’t wait for the full album.

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The Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton

Even funnier than “Fake Steve”. “Great. Liz Taylor is endorsing me. Can someone please find a way to shut this old bag up? I mean who’s next? Michael Jackson?”

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Capitol idea: Senator Schilling? Curt's not so sure, but fans think he's just the ticket - Local Politics - BostonHerald.com

Heh. He’s probably the only person who’d have a chance at being a Republican senator for Massachusetts.

Kawaii Not: "I'm a blank piece of paper..."

“… and you’re on a deadline”

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January 26, 2007

Show me - The Boston Globe

Local live-music aggregators Tourb.us and Tourfilter get a writeup in the Globe.

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YouTube - Kitty Washing Machine

Automatic “spa” for pets. I’d pay good money to see Bacon and Clyde take a run through one of these things.

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Wii News Channel

Wii News Channel

It just seems right that the first story I pulled up on the new Wii "News Channel" was about the European PS3 launch.

Wincing the Night Away

CD Purchase: The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Pink Kitty Designs

My friend Jenney’s lovely homemade cards. Now with “Breakup Cards”, just in time for Valentines Day!

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January 25, 2007

Flickr Ramps up Triple Tag (Machine Tags) Support.

Good explanation from RevDanCatt of the awesome potential of Flickr’s new “Machine Tags”. Also a great example of a company watching what their users were doing, and working out a way to enhance that behaviour and crank up the awesomeness at the same time.

YouTube - Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

Your handy guide to understanding the whole Cingular/AT&T thing.

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Humanized

Interesting looking program launcher for Windows — It actually makes CAPS LOCK a useful key on the keyboard again — but I’m not sure it’s worth $25.

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Dying to Say This to You

CD Purchase: The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You

Google Testing Blog: Introducing "Testing on the Toilet"

Google posts flyers giving tips on automated testing inside toilet cubicles. Good god, that’s the creepiest thing I’ve heard of in a while.

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January 24, 2007

The Basset Who Came In From the Cold

The Basset Who Came In From the Cold

More playing with my new camera. Bacon reentering the warmth from our back garden.

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Aquarium Feeds - Penguin Webcam

Watch the penguins at the New England Aquarium, and take control of the camera. PENGUINS!

crazybob.org: Install PwdHash, now.

Firefox extension for generating marginally-more-secure passwords. Use your same password everywhere, but hash it against the website’s domain name.

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xkcd - The Problem with Wikipedia

[Three Hours of Fascinated Clicking]

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Baby Einstein - BuzzFeed

Gathering together posts equally confused by the bizarre cameo during last night’s State of the Union by the creator of those bullshit Baby Einstein DVDs. “Bush points out the American Dream in the audience and apparently, the American Dream looks like a less pointy Ann Coulter.”

January 23, 2007

Zync

Some friends’ startup. It’s going to evolve into smart “social search”. In the meantime, Bostonfolks: Try training their brain (It’s fun!) and seeing how well it knows you.

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EFI's Consumer Division Residential Catalogue | Harmony Dimmable Spiral

I’ve finally found a good dimmable low-energy lightbulb. This model’s less than $7, and has none of the buzzing or flickering that’s been a problem with previous bulbs we’ve tried. Gonna buy a few more, then our house will be completely incandescent-bulb free.

Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green

Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say?

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PokerFace - UKGameshows

Tremendously enjoyable quiz show format from the UK. Surprised it hasn’t been snapped up by a US network as cheap filler.

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NESN, Scout create reality dating show with Sox appeal

The only dating show to feature the phrase “Shut the hell up — Papi’s batting” on every episode, I imagine.

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January 22, 2007

Bostonist: Diesel Spreads to Union

Fantastic news — Diesel Cafe’s owners are opening a new coffee shop in Union Square. There hasn’t been a caffeine + wifi place within walking distance of my house since the Grand Coffeehouse shut down.

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Pet shop owner creates beer for dogs - Boston.com

I’d love nothing more than to share the pleasures of a pint with my hounds.

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Glark.org: My Name Is Meta

My Name is Earl shouts-out to TWoP, including having their characters post to the TWoP forums. “No, I don’t think shows should do more meta jokes that cater to the online bloggers and I’m sure everyone at Television Without Pity Dot Com agrees with me.”

In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real - New York Times

“I’m having my breasts redone because of HD”

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January 21, 2007

Blu-ray Volume Unique Keys - Doom9's Forum

And now the keys for Blu-ray discs are getting released, even though there isn’t any software to extract the video yet! Outstanding.

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My most-played artists of the last year

I didn’t realise last.fm had this functionality. Rather puzzled that The Beatles are Number 1 — I do love their new “Love” album, but I didn’t think I’d played it more than The Delgados, or even Girls Aloud, in 2006.

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

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