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Entries for week beginning December 14, 2008

December 20, 2008

Achievement Unlocked | Armor Games

The game where unlocking achievements is the only point of the game. Hint: Clicking the Hint link gets you a “Cheater” achievement.

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SmartSleep

Hurrah! Sleep your MacBook instead of hibernating it when you have sufficient battery life left. It was very annoying that I had to wait for OS X to persist 3GB to disk before I could pick up my laptop.

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Twitter Venn

Enter words and see how they overlap in Twitter usage.

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December 18, 2008

Obamified

Obamified

Made with the amazingcakes Obamafy Photo Booth plugin.

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December 17, 2008

Monkey's Christmas message

“I’d like to shave a stoat.”

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December 16, 2008

Not quite what I had in mind.

George Oates’s tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr’s behalf.

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What's In The Box? | Vermillion Lies

One of my favourite music-geek-thrills is hearing a support act at a concert, being wicked impressed, and buying their CD from the merch table afterwards. Vermillion Lies supported Amanda Palmer last night, and were ace in a quirky discordant silly folkpop kind of way. You can download their latest album for free here. Give ‘em a listen, whydontcha?

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December 15, 2008

Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer and the Danger Ensemble

Amanda Palmer and the Danger Ensemble

rodbegbie's Songcolours.

No idea what this means, but it’s pretty. “ohh roof da walk boy gigantic”

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Last.fm's Playground: Unwanted

Which tracks do last.fm’s users hide from their profile most often? Your guide to the world’s finest guilty pleasure tunes.

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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.