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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.

Entries for week beginning April 6, 2008

April 12, 2008

The Moldy Peaches

CD Purchase: The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches

Made In the Dark

CD Purchase: Hot Chip - Made In the Dark

Back in Black

CD Purchase: AC/DC - Back in Black

Splendour

Splendour

Joy & I have been staying at the Mosser Hotel this week in San Francisco while apartment hunting. Come join us on this video tour of our luxurious suite.

(This is primarily a test to see what breaks on my blog when I post a video to Flickr -- Seems to have worked pretty smoothly, but goddamn, there needs to be a way of choosing the frame that becomes the thumbnail!)

April 11, 2008

Portishead in Portishead // Current

Portishead concert, showing on Current TV over the next few weeks. Material from their splendid new album, Third.

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April 10, 2008

Ten Thousand Cents

Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill.

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Best Game Ever

Improv Everywhere make a Little League baseball game into a massive event. Lovely.

April 9, 2008

Red Sox World Series Ring Raffle

Your chance to win an ugly-ass bit of bling, and a $7000 tax bill. Um.. thanks?

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Torch protest

Torch protest

The "Free Tibet" and "Free Darfur" groups were protesting the torch, but a visibly larger group of Chinese supporters were protesting the protesters.

And in the end, the torch didn't come anywhere near us!

Computer Science Unplugged

Simple worksheets to explain CompSci concepts like text compression or sorting algorithms. Pretty nifty.

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Absolutely Everything DVD Box Set

The superb 90s sketch show Absolutely is finally getting a complete DVD release. Hurrah!

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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.