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August 11, 2008

Anatomy of a Subway Hack

The presentation on hacking the MBTA which was pulled from Defcon due to a court order… but not before the slide deck had been distributed.

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August 19, 2007

Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share

Graphical programming “language”/environment. Designed as a tool to let kids learn programing.

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March 17, 2007

A gathering of OLPCs

A gathering of OLPCs

Several prototypes from the One Laptop Per Child program were brought along for geeks to play with. While I'm not going to give up my MacBook any time soon, they are beautifully designed for what they're needed to do.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

To inspire programmers taking part in the 24-hour Programming Contest, a list of topics was drawn up and ten were drawn at random.

(This board was later amended to say "Convince us that you used at least 4...")

And no, I have no idea what "BBQ Calculator" means either.

OLPCs bring joy

OLPCs bring joy

Alan Taylor with a OLPC laptop.

OLPC Draws the Crowds

OLPC Draws the Crowds

SJ Klein of OneLaptopPerChild draws a big crowd during an impromptu demonstration over afternoon break.

Geek Debris

Geek Debris

October 5, 2006

Doonesbury@Slate - Stata Center

Alex Doonesbury’s attending MIT, and today the Stata Center, my favourite new piece of architecture in the Boston area, made an appearance,

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October 3, 2006

Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:25 pm 10/3/06

Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:25 pm 10/3/06

Tim Westergren of Pandora, talking with a hundred-or-so interested students and other music geeks at MIT.

Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:10 pm 10/3/06

Pandora Town Hall, MIT, Tuesday 6:10 pm 10/3/06

A subset of the crowd at the Pandora Town Hall.

September 21, 2004

MIT Geek Humour

MIT Geek Humour

If you don't know what IHTFP means, Google away!

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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.