“groovy mother...”

Replace those dull “periodic table” icons with something more fanciful.

Splendid article explaining the whats and wherefores of Google’s new “Web History” feature, so you don’t have to install it to experiment.

Wicked cool multi-touch-esque synthesizer-thing.

The highlights of Don Hincliffe’s loony “info” graphics which “explain” Web 2.0. I think my favourite is “The Habits of Highly Effective Web 2.0 Sites”. It’s gorgeously demented.

The origin of Twitter (or Twttr as then was) in papery form. Seems I was quite accurate when I first saw it and described it as “the way my friends and I used to use our AIM Away messages to pass on information and injokes.”

Somewhere between kinda-cool and terrifying: Allow Google to know Every Single Page you visit, and they’ll let you search against them. Yes, useful, but there’s no need for this to happen on Google’s servers in the sky.

Add nice corners and shadows to your images with just a smidge of JavaScript.

Lummy! It’s been five years since I started writing on groovymother.com. Gonna have to spend some time this weekend doing visualizations of my post history.

“Look, you guys, when the world is divided into who has Pug Hats and who does not, I will really miss you and write every day. “

Love the “features” on this. (Found while playing around on the renamed “Google Product Search”)

The Scottsdale, AZ police department is running recruiting ads in the mens room at Fenway Park. I saw one last week, but really didn’t think it was an appropriate time to whip out my cellphone and take a photo.

Bunch of handy GMail Greasemonkey scripts bundled up into one tasty Firefox extension.

A couple of hundred HD-DVD fanboys did an organized reverse-boycott, all purchasing HD-DVD discs on Amazon on the same day to try and prove… something. Not quite sure what. Really it emphasizes how lousy both formats are doing that a sales graph can be moved so dramatically by a few hundred customers.

From the “about bloody time” file, a plugin from Microsoft for Firefox which allows WMV files to stream in your browser. This has been broken (and required lots of DLL copying) for years.

Dear Boing Boing, If I wanted half-assed rumours, guesses and pointless speculation relating to yesterday’s VT shooting, I’d turn on any of the 24-hour “news” channels. In the meantime, I’m reactivating my Xeni filter.

Get rather spiffy looking wall-art produced, based upon the DNA of you and your loved ones. A “snip” at $390+

Greasemonkey script to remove all the crap from YouTube pages that isn’t the video.

Ah, these make me laugh every single year. The worst possible novel-starts, in 25-words-or-less. My favourite is “Ah, poetic Paris: with its pâtés and beaujolais, tiramisu and au jus.”

Cool re-skinning of Google Reader to make it more like a Mac desktop app, using only CSS.

Holy crap, the new US passport design looks like a Colbert Report “let’s overdo it with the eagles and flags” pisstake!

“Product activation sucks. It sucks because your continued use of the software you purchased is forever dependent on the continued availability of the license server. And it sucks because your license can be unilaterally revoked because someone, somewhere has decided you must be a pirate.”