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Entries for week beginning March 7, 2010

March 13, 2010

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Dan’s ‘do

Dan’s ‘do

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As shy and retiring as always

As shy and retiring as always

Pistachio talks

Pistachio talks

Interviewed at the ONEfourtée drinks

March 12, 2010

“The Big Oh!”

“The Big Oh!”

Bacon, scrambled egg, chiles, cheese and tortilla chips, in a waffle cone. Delicious!

Schwagbags

Schwagbags

Oh, so much unnecessary crap

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Well, that’s breakfast sorted

Well, that’s breakfast sorted

March 11, 2010

March 10, 2010

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I heartily approve of this new nomenclature. openstache: { closestache: }

“Feeding pigeons is illegal”

“Feeding pigeons is illegal”

""The law is illegal."

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1024 bits of you and me

Another amazing Kickstarter project - For every $10 you pledge, you receive a 5”x5” mini painting inspired by a word or phrase you submit. The goal: A giant installation of 1,024 such paintings.

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March 9, 2010

Books: Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Great take-down of 37Signals’s bluster by someone who manages real, non-internet-fairy-dust companies.

“Don’t try and make a name for your software company by issuing such over-heated generalisations.”

Blank It

Thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing web-comic. Start here, and keep on clicking.

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March 8, 2010

OK Go Rube Goldberg video: meet the makers!

Interview about the making of the OK Go video. Confirms that there was some light post-production tweaking, but for the most part, what you saw was one machine.

Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac

This is a big shift: “We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360.” I will never need Boot Camp again.

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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.