Some excellent Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office. I fast forwarded right past the one in Thursday’s episode, because I figured it was a genuine “The More You Know” segment. Luckily, Joy got me to skip back.
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Superb AprilFool from Flickr — The “interesting” photo pages are only showing kittens. Extra points for respecting users’ timezones, so the hack only goes into effect for the 24 hours that is April 1st for you!
Hells yeah! “A list of things which do not actually constitue a valid April Fools’ Day joke”
TeeVee.org’s April Fools site is superb. There’s a lot of love gone into this.
Somerville has a Dog Park
Until very recently, there was not a single place in the City of Somerville (population ~77,000) where you could let your dog off-leash. Thankfully this has now changed, with the just-opened dog run on Nunziato Field. Here's some of the cheerful dogs that were gallavanting round there when we took Bacon down this evening.
Atom 1.0 enabled
My Atom feeds now conform to RFC 4287. They’ve actually been ready since the “proposed standard” document was published nearly nine months ago, but I’ve held off switching over to them until most feedreaders supported it. Where “most” in my mind was defined as Bloglines.
Unfortunately, Bloglines still borks over some of it, and is barely maintained these days. But most sane feedreaders (like those whacky kids in Redmond) are now well up to speed, so the switch has been thrown. Enjoy my curly quotation marks in all their unambiguous glory!
My old Atom 0.3 feed will continue to be published at http://groovymother.com/atom03.xml. Feel free to use it if Atom 1.0 is out of your reach. It’ll probably drop down in features (such as <content>) in a few months time as I try to retire it (like I did to RSS two years ago(groovy mother :: Good(?) Housekeeping))
Any problems, do please let me know.
April 1st has come early this year, it seems.
“Daversy is a source control tool for relational databases.” Man, something like this has been needed for years.
A collection of the “Thwack”-style graphics from the 60s Batman TV show.
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Hopes for a return of Arrested Development are dashed. No worries — It ended on such a pitch-perfect note that I almost don’t want them to return for fear of pissing on their legacy.
jwz’s awesome screensaver collection is now available for OSX. Windows users are still SOL. “There is no Windows version of xscreensaver, and there never will be. Please stop asking. Microsoft killed my company, and I hold a personal grudge.”
Bacon guards his squeakyball
Don't you dare try and steal it from him, or he'll viciously roll his eyes, yawn and ignore you.
This looks handy. Install Windows applications into isolated silos so you can try them and uninstall them without leaving debris all over your hard drive and registry.
Got multiple kids with Downs Syndrome? Victim of hate crime? Then ABC would love you exploit your pain for ratings. Cynical fucks.
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Good post from Anil, that is quite appropriate to a little side-project I’m going to be taking on for Beantown web types.
BusinessWeek article on the troubles facing early adopters of HD-DVD & Blu-Ray. I reckon Comcast & DirecTv are going to win the battle to bring High Def movies into peoples’ homes. The days of shiny discs are drawing to a close.
Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.
Betty Boo & Alexfromblur’s new single. Hot damn, it’s ridiculously catchy and smashing.
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