Monthly Archives: July 2008

Books: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

By MattK | Published: July 30, 2008
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem has been called a space opera, but that seems inaccurate.  The characters eventually make it out of the atmosphere, but time is the subject of the book – not space.  Some of the best parts are about contemplation, piecing together puzzles and following the threads of deductive logic through to a conclusion.  [...]
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links for 2008-07-19

By MattK | Published: July 19, 2008
stanlemon.net : jgrowl nice little notifications on web pages. (tags: jquery javascript plugin growl jgrowl interface ajax display ui web)
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More Horrible Recruiters

By MattK | Published: July 18, 2008
This morning, my inbox melted into a thin runny gruel due to the amazing incompetence of Prodigus Tech. Also, to feed google a bit, Max Archie is a wankstain. update: now we get pieces of flair.  See see the sidebar.
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links for 2008-07-18

By MattK | Published: July 18, 2008
Bug Shooting (tags: free freeware screencapture screenshot utilities windows image)
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Making Context Free Art

By MattK | Published: July 14, 2008
If you are reading this post in your feed reader, you’ll want to click through to my actual website. Trust me on this one. I was really impressed with Aza Raskin’s ContextFree.js experiment. I like how the simple rules of a context free art piece generate complex forms. See below, that text will turn into [...]
Posted in Art, Browsers, Design, Dev, Hacks, Pals, morelight | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Recent Nerdery

By MattK | Published: July 10, 2008
I drew my whole apartment on google sketchup in order to settle a discussion with my partner Sam over where we should move some chairs and tables.  Sadly, it did not help. Due to a nasty twitter post, I had to write up rot13 in ruby – which is of course hot. #ruby on rot13 [...]
Posted in Dev, Pals, Ruby | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Two stories about light and information

By MattK | Published: July 3, 2008
When I was younger I saw small haloish ripples around some shadows.  I thought I had magic powers, that I could see auras.  I believed I had this secret power for quite some time.  While reading a moving presentation by Matt Web about ancient Patagonian communication (it’s sort of heartbreaking), I learned what it was.  [...]
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