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Entries for week beginning February 10, 2008

February 16, 2008

Lost In Translation

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Lost In Translation

Audiosurf: Ride Your Music

An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!

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February 14, 2008

chumby: barack obama is your new bicycle

Hooray! Just what I wanted!

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Vara Software : ScreenFlow

Really rather sweet Mac screencasting software. The post-capture editing tools look handy.

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ACM Queue - January/February 2008

ACM Queue is the one freebie trade magazine that I eagerly await and read cover to cover. If you’re a software engineer or architect, I highly recommend signing up for a free subscription at acmqueue.com

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Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

Collected facts about Barack Obama. This needs to be a Chumby app.

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My upcoming trips on DOPPLR

My upcoming trips on DOPPLR

Can you spot the connection between all my upcoming trips? To Toronto, Baltimore, New York and St Petersburg (in the Tampa bay). (Clue)

S'gonna be a fun season!

Flying Meat: VoodooPad

Local private hypertexty wiki note-taking brain-dumping app for OS X. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and really like it.

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TrackMyShipments

Forward your shipping confirmation emails to this site, and they’ll ping you as the packages move across the US.

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February 13, 2008

Pepsi launches 'healthy' option

Pepsi launches an all-“natural” version of Pepsi in a limited trial. Of course, it’s just as unhealthy, being massively full of sugar, but we can all pretend it’s better for you.

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February 12, 2008

YouTube - Rabbit Rescue

Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.

18 Smokin' Hot Business Card Designs

Varied mix of designs for business cards, plus links to suggestions for what to put on them. Spurred me on to creating something nicer than Moo Cards for when I’m attempting to be “professional”.

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Late Night: Behind the Brawl

Outtakes from last week’s Late Night where Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart killed time/entertained the nation (delete as appropriate) by brawling.

Android in Harvard Square

If you’re interested in developing for Google’s new cellphone platform, there’s a developer day in Cambridge in a couple of weeks. Wonder if the iPhone SDK will be out by then too? Would be interesting to compare-and-contrast.

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February 11, 2008

Commuter Feed

Crowdsourced traffic reports, via Twitter. Of course, there’ll need to be another site tracking all the accidents caused by folks texting accidents to this site while driving…

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Spongebob Voice-Overs

The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality!

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Netflix, Citing a Clear Signal From the Industry, Will Carry High-Def DVDs Only in Blu-ray Format - Feb 11, 2008

Further fuel for the “HD-DVD is fucked” fire, slashed-price players and superbowl ads be damned.

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February 10, 2008

ongoing: XML People

Fascinating account of the people (and corporations) involved in the creation of XML (which was published ten years ago today)

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Scenes from CPAC: Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising edition | Economist.com

Photos of some of the delightful treats on sale this week at the “Conservative Political Action Conference”. Mmmm… misogynriffic!

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Mitt Drops Out | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart uses the exact same words as I did when I read Mitt Romney’s dropping-out speech. (Spoiler: “FUCK YOU!”)

Lola Boston - A Woman's Guide to Boston

The Globe’s fine marketing folks apparently decided that the perfect name for their new women’s supplement was that of the transvestite from the Kinks song.


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.