“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning June 15, 2008

June 21, 2008

Will Wright demoing Spore - Photo: http://bkite.com/00Gtd

Posted to Twitter at 10:34 p.m.

The Spore demo is amazing. Biggest crowd reactions have been to the 2001 parody and the appearance of red Pikmin.

Posted to Twitter at 10:30 p.m.

eating a tasty, but poorly-constructed, burrito. I don’t know f these people are even properly licensed tortilla technicians.

Posted to Twitter at 12:50 a.m.

June 20, 2008

Wandering round to the @laughingsquid drinks before an evening of grooving at 111 Minna

Posted to Twitter at 10:19 p.m.

My 401k investment strategy: Search symbol on Google. Check chart goes up. Glance at Morningstar rating. Figure “good enough”. Invest.

Posted to Twitter at 3:03 p.m.

June 19, 2008

The letter A is also leaving Yhoo! Rumoured to be joining Googale.

Posted to Twitter at 10:50 p.m.

No matter how busy my day, or how scarily large the number of unread items in my Google Reader, I always find time for The Daily Puppy.

Posted to Twitter at 8:03 p.m.

ESPN.com football match visualization

Hadn't seen this before. A lovely real-time glanceable view of the state of a football match. Progress bar showing time in the game, with markers for goals, yellow & red cards and substitutions.

Filed under : Skitch

Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less

“Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!”

Filed under : funny : literature : mcsweeney's

Having a frankly stupid amount of fun with the Spore Creature Creator.

Posted to Twitter at 2:46 a.m.

June 18, 2008

Reddit cocktails. I’m enjoying a “Mister Splashy Pants” - Photo: http://bkite.com/00DjV

Posted to Twitter at 10:01 p.m.

The Reddit alien sees all - Photo: http://bkite.com/00DjI

Posted to Twitter at 9:58 p.m.

Heading to the Reddit open-source shindig, celebrating free-as-in-speech code with free-as-in-beer beer.

Posted to Twitter at 9:18 p.m.

How to nap

Boston Globe article advocating the refreshing power of a mid-afternoon nap. Wonder if anyone would mind if I scheduled time in the conference room each day for a spot of shuteye…

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Filed under : boston globe : infographic : napping : sleep : zzzzzzzzz

Stewart Butterfield’s bizarre resignation letter

That’s the way to do it. “Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!”

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Filed under : bizarre : flickr : funny : stewart butterfield : tin : yahoo!

Things I love about @laughatlantis: When she randomly IMs me in the middle of the day with an Eddie Izzard quote. BUNCH OF FLOWERS!

Posted to Twitter at 4:13 p.m.

Most complex crop circle ever discovered in British fields - Telegraph

This should be the calling card for xkcd geohashing meetups.

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Filed under : crop circles : geekery : pi

reddit goes open source

Reddit release (most of) the source for the site, allowing anyone to host their own reddit. Excellent video announcement from the mascot too.

Filed under : open source : reddit

June 17, 2008

Updating my LinkedIn page to more strongly tell recruiters to fuck off. Two cold-calls on my work voicemail today. Grrr.

Posted to Twitter at 9:10 p.m.

The amount of SQUEE I feel every time I see a WALL•E advert, billboard or wrapped-Muni-train for is getting ridiculous. Can’t wait!

Posted to Twitter at 4:17 p.m.

Do not go and see Signs. It is a bad, bad movie.

From 2002: Why I will never see an M. Night Shyamalan movie again, and am completely unsurprised at the vitriol being unpoured on The Happening.

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Filed under : me : m. night shyamalan : signs

The New Republic Movie Review: “The Happening”

“This film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list of its most laughably terrible parts rather than review it.”

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Filed under : m. night shyamalan : review : the happening

June 16, 2008

Only thing more fun than watching Bartolo Colon pitch? Watching Bartolo Colon bat. Hooray for fat slow unathletic pitchers.

Posted to Twitter at 10:14 p.m.

Flight was 90 minutes late, and the BART is screwed up. Not the best travel day!

Posted to Twitter at 9:11 p.m.

June 15, 2008

Joy, watching NBA finals: “That dude’s tall. And that dude’s tall too.” Nothing gets by her.

Posted to Twitter at 11:12 p.m.

Bad Science: Money money money money money

Ben Goldacre on the experiments that show that humans are happier with things that cost them more money. I suggest naming this “the Bose effect”.

Filed under : money : SCIENCE!

“If you see this message repeatedly, you may need to disable your ad blocking software”

You know what, Hulu? I don't think I will disable my ad-blocking software. It's almost like it's doing exactly what I want it to do.

Filed under : advertising : hulu : Skitch