“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning January 27, 2008

➠ February 2, 2008

Wonder how many people, like me, this evening thought “I haven’t watched Groundhog Day in an an age,” and raked out the DVD.

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Posted to Twitter at 9:09 p.m.

➠ February 1, 2008

The Collings and Herrin Podcasts

Andrew Collins and Richard Herring are trying out podcasting. Hurrah!

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Filed under : andrew collins : podcast : richard herring

List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia

I’ll take “Companies that have died on the vine” for $400 please, Alex.

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Filed under : business : microsoft : wikipedia : yahoo

Who cares about Yahoo? I’m still bitter about MS buying Rare, depriving my Nintendo of new Donkey Kong Country games.

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Posted to Twitter at 12:46 p.m.

➠ January 31, 2008

Craig Ferguson Takes Citizenship Test

A fellow Scotsman takes the US citizenship test.

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Filed under : citizenship : craig ferguson : usa : video

Windows Vista Help: Opening the Windows Vista box

Official Microsoft documentation on how to open the Vista packaging. Because it *needs* documentation.

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Filed under : design : microsoft : packaging : windows vista

Co-worker has a bug that can only be reproduced by playing “Baba O’Riley” through a speaker loudly. Only at RhymesWithNose!

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Posted to Twitter at 5:25 p.m.

I’ll admit it — I was surprised that the spam about “deciding to open my reverse funnel system” *wasn’t* a porn ad.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:54 p.m.

ThinkGeek :: 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt

“Proximity Based Geek Lovin’” Amazing! Might get these for me & Joy for valentines day.

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Filed under : clothing : geek : love : rfid : thinkgeek : tshirts

➠ January 30, 2008

The raffle’s opened for the chance to buy “premium” red sox tickets. http://rdbgb.us/Rji

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Posted to Twitter at 1:44 p.m.

➠ January 29, 2008

the best thing about tweet-ups? It’s socially acceptable to whip out your phone and start typing. Oh, and the awesome people.

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Posted to Twitter at 10:45 p.m.

Most interesting startup at #webinno looks to be myhappyplanet.com. Social network to learn/teach foreign languages.

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Posted to Twitter at 7:50 p.m.

#WebInno has text-voting tonight for your favourite presenter. Unfortunately, no option for ReOpen Nominations.

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Posted to Twitter at 7:35 p.m.

#WebInno is just stupidly big now. At least 400 folks here tonight. Thankfully, some of the attendees are awesome. The presenters? Meh.

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Posted to Twitter at 7:14 p.m.

Heading home to set-up the new RhymesWithNose surround-sound system I just bought. Will be heading to #WebInno later.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:58 p.m.

What font says 'Change'? - The Boston Globe

Type designers decode the presidential candidates.

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Filed under : design : politics : typography : usa

➠ January 28, 2008

Playing with Packrat (http://rdbgb.us/FK4) on Facebook. It speaks to all my aspergery-obsessive stuff-collecting tendencies. I love it!

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Posted to Twitter at 9:41 p.m.

I’d pay big bucks for an indie-band tribute album to The Rutles. “Ouch!” is one of my favourite songs EVER!

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Posted to Twitter at 8:55 p.m.

Democracy in America | Economist.com

The Economist has an outstanding US Politics blog. In depth, funny and required reading.

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Filed under : politics : the economist : usa

Rooting around in coworkers’ iTunes libraries. Making notes for later blackmailing. (“*Someone* likes musical theatre…”)

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Posted to Twitter at 1:25 p.m.

➠ January 27, 2008

Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ

Lots of the questions I have about SLR photography answered.

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Filed under : canon : photography : slr

Finding myself adding a $450 lens to my Amazon wishlist. Maybe photography wasn’t the smartest hobby for me to take up…

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Posted to Twitter at 9:56 p.m.

Booksthatmakeyoudumb

Comparing SAT scores with colleges’ most popular books according to Facebook. Guess where the Bible ends up on that scale…

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Filed under : books : education : facebook : statistics

Fuel Economy

US Gov’t fuel economy site, which lets you upload your information and compare MPGs with others. My 2001 Civic’s giving me 30 MPG, and that seems to be pretty reasonable.

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Filed under : fuel economy : oil

favotter

Collator of favourited Twitters. It’s a bit wonky (it only gathers together favourites by certain users), but there’s some fun stuff in there.

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Filed under : twitter

Michel Gondry Re-creates His Own Trailer For "Be Kind Rewind"

Michel Gondry’s next film involved Jack Black and Mos Def recreating movies amateurishly. Here, Michel Gondry recreates that film’s trailer amateurishly. Genius!

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Filed under : awesome : be kind rewind : meta : meta meta : michel gondry : trailer : video

“Enough already!”

Clyde imploring me to stop taking photos of him. (Since my class yesterday, I've fired off over 100 shots of him -- these were the only two worth sharing!)

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Filed under : basset : bassethound : clyde : Raw

Regal Clyde

Clyde hamming it up for the camera.

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Filed under : basset : bassethound : clyde : Raw

You Suck at Photoshop

Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace!

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Filed under : funny : photoshop : screencast : video

Listening to my Trip Hop station on Slacker — It’s a pretty good mix! You can listen in too: http://rdbgb.us/triphop

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Posted to Twitter at 5:46 p.m.