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Entries for week beginning July 12, 2009

July 17, 2009

Janey Thomson's Marathon

Track & Field meets Desert Bus. Can you keep going for 26.2 miles?

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MTV To Launch New Track Upload Program For 'Rock Band'

Harmonix is building a program to allow bands to upload their own music to Rock Band and have indie game developers build the play tracks. This has great potential for AMAZING!

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Eggs Of History

Eggs. Dressed as historical figures. Obviously.

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Serious doubts

Marco Arment, author of Instapaper, considers quitting iPhone development given Apple’s dumb moves. Steven Frank of Panic is looking even smarter for never falling into this mess.

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July 16, 2009

Welcome to webOSdev

Palm have released the “Mojo” SDK for the Palm Prē’s WebOS. Now that this is publicly available, it will be interesting to see how Palm’s app store grows.

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Truman sings & dances

Truman sings & dances

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We Are The World

We Are The World

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We Are The World

We Are The World

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Now I’m Only Falling Apart

Now I’m Only Falling Apart

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‘Cause We’ll Never Be Wrong

‘Cause We’ll Never Be Wrong

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Musical Break 4 Measures

Musical Break 4 Measures

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July 14, 2009

THE TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL

Flaming Lips, Bob Mould, MGMT, The Streets, Girl Talk… Should be a great weekend.

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July 13, 2009

For those of you comparing my facehair...

…to Wolverine or John McCrirrick, you’re wrong. My inspiration is 21st president, Chester A Arthur.

July 12, 2009

Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief

Psychological study suggests that use of profanity could be a source of pain relief.

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The Evolution of Tim Wakefield, Knuckleball Pitcher

NYTimes profile of the mighty Wake.

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19th Century Carnival Barker?

19th Century Carnival Barker?

or.. why grown men shouldn't be trusted with their own beard clippers.

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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.