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Entries for week beginning April 1, 2007

April 7, 2007

Time stands still for Hempfield teen in lockup - Tribune-Review

Kid phones a school hotline an hour before someone phones in a bomb threat. Unfortunately, the school hadn’t adjusted for the new DST switch, so he got hauled into juvenile detention for twelve days. “County juvenile detention officials wanted to keep Webb in custody, Andrews said. “They wanted him to have a mental health evaluation because he wouldn’t admit to making the call.” ” Frightening.

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No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

“OK, here I go, I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.”

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April 6, 2007

Oxford Geek Nights

This looks like a format that’d be worth replicating in Boston. Informal meetups with scheduled 5 or 15 minute presentations, focused on cool web technology.

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CHICK CHICK BOOM

Fun Flashgame from Nintendo. Are they prototyping ideas for console games using Flash? This could easily be a great two-player DS game.

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Japan Runs on Dunkin' on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This cracked me up when I saw it at Fenway last night. The Dunkin Donuts billboard above the bleachers is in Japanese (reportedly, it says “Welcome to Fenway Park”). Dice-K mania hits Dunks!

Magnetbox

Awesome retro blog design.

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April 5, 2007

nike :: JUST DO IT.

As we await Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first start as a Red Sox pitcher, here’s his new Nike advert playing in Japan. The shot of Wally the Green Monster in the middle is kind of disconcerting.

Spinning Into Oblivion - New York Times

“The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc.”

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April 4, 2007

Free Mobile Push Email - Consilient Push

IMAP or POP mail pushed to your cellphone for free. Works with S60 phones.

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filehippo.com Update Client - filehippo.com

Know when Windows programs you have installed need updateing — Like VersionTracker or AppFresh, but for Windows.

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Hairy Chest in the Sox Crowd

Hairy Chest in the Sox Crowd

This is why watching the Sox in HD is so important. Sure, the game's a bit clearer, but really, it's all about those moments when Orsillo & Remy lose their everloving minds and amuse themselves.

Here, they take a fan to task who had removed his shirt (along with his friends) to spell "BOSTON" across their chests. They spent a good two minutes discussing how he should trim his chest hair, pondering whether it joined around the back, doodling with the telestrator, and commenting how he reminded them of Austin Powers. The cameras even cut away from Youk's home run to show this guy putting his shirt back on.

Hooray for Don and the Remdawg.

Internet Access CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHAs to keep the internet looser(sic)-free. I would fully support this project.

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Research points the finger at PowerPoint - Technology - smh.com.au

“Pioneered at the University of NSW, the research shows the human brain processes and retains more information if it is digested in either its verbal or written form, but not both at the same time.”

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Product listing - Geekz Shop

T-shirts and stickers emblazoned with the likes of Richard Stallman, Donald Knuth and Bruce Schneier. I ordered a couple of the Schneier stickers for my laptops.

April 3, 2007

FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox !

Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.

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phpsh -- an interactive shell for php

This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!

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PC World - The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

Limited to products released since the “personal computer”. I don’t want to imagine a world that didn’t have these products as stepping stones.

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April 2, 2007

Ballhype: The Best Stories, The Biggest Fans

Digg for sports fans, with some interesting tagging and filtering options to limit it to the geographies/teams/players you care about.

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Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store

Apple will be selling DRM-free music from EMI next month. Pitched as “higher-quality” (256kbps AAC) to justify the price increase. The interesting statistic once this launches is going to be the number of people who choose the lower-cost DRMed version.

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April 1, 2007

iusethis mac software: applications used by rodbegbie

Up-to-date list of the software I use on my Mac.

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Slife Labs

App which tracks what you’re browsing/reading/writing/working-on over time. Kind of cool to build up a picture of your day.

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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.