Monthly Archives: January 2008

What I read in January

By MattK | Published: January 31, 2008
It was a busy month, with more adventure than reading. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 by Dave Eggers The Family Trade by Charles Stross The Geek Gap by by Bill Pfleging The only one that I’d really recommend is The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 by Dave Eggers. It is sweet, funny, sensitive and [...]
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links for 2008-01-30

By MattK | Published: January 30, 2008
Myth #3: Rent is wasted money In yet another series of calculations about rent vs. buy. I never can shake the feeling that I’m still getting a good deal by renting in my awesome neighborhood rather than buying in a shitty one. (tags: rent housing finance money realestate advice)
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links for 2008-01-29

By MattK | Published: January 29, 2008
Picasa Web Albums – Jaime – Utah SB 2008 oops (tags: video photos snowboarding)
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My favorite spanish heavy metal song

By MattK | Published: January 26, 2008
So very awesome, every time Nonpoint’s Rabia comes up on my shuffle it gets an extra play. The lyrics for Rabia are simple, but so is the subject. Listen to it after the jump.
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links for 2008-01-26

By MattK | Published: January 26, 2008
Make your own Roll-Up Keyboard – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech, offbeat Have you ever wanted one of those pricy roll up keyboard but didn’t want to spend the money? Here is a quick and dirty way to make your own. (tags: diy hack hacks howto computer instructables keyboard)
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Ramblings about add-art

By MattK | Published: January 24, 2008
Ignore this, it is just a braindump from the train.  Unless you want to help out. I’ve started working on a project called add-art.   The idea is to turn advertisements into beauty.  It is based on the popular ad-block-plus firefox extension, but instead of leaving holes where advertisements are removed, it would insert art.  [...]
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links for 2008-01-24

By MattK | Published: January 24, 2008
Input Director Like synergy, lets you share keyboard between multiple lan’d PCs. Shared Clipboard, lotsa options, easy setup. (tags: freeware computer sharing kvm software windows utilities) The Secret Museum of Mankind Cannibals. Fakirs. Crime and punishment. Rituals. Slaves, cults and customs. Warriors and weapons. Musicians and mendicants. Structures, conveyances, beasts, and more breasts than you [...]
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links for 2008-01-23

By MattK | Published: January 23, 2008
ClipX – tiny clipboard manager ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. It makes copy and paste work better. Ctrl-shift-v brings up a tiny gui of your past clipboard. so sweeet. (tags: freeware free computer clipboard utilities tools clipx text)
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links for 2008-01-22

By MattK | Published: January 22, 2008
YouTube – Dasher Demonstration One finger text entry. One continuous line – but how fast is it? (tags: gui interaction interface ui usability dasher erma) Inference Group: Dasher Project: Home An info-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. It is a competitive text-entry system wher a full-size keyboard cannot be used - 1finger [...]
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New Look, problems fixed

By MattK | Published: January 19, 2008
Fixed the permalink problems, slapped on a simpler look. Let me know if you spot any bugs I missed, let me know if you think the site look is lame.
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