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.
Continue reading My favorite spanish heavy metal song
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links for 2008-01-26
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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.
Ramblings about add-art
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. Curators could book shows on add-art.org for artists. When you go to a website with tons of ads, they would be replaced by art images.
Great stuff!  Once we get the plugin working with add-art.org, we should look at decentralizing it. Let the extension communicate with multiple ad block lists and multiple replacement image servers. Then package the add-art.org server as an installable package so anyone can run it. Let users pick up the url of other servers as a way to get art from the artists they like on their browser…
Deviantart might run something like this.
Maybe flickr/explore/interesting could be a provider.
Hell, why not use atom/rss as the provider and let any rss list of images be the provider?
Image sizing becomes an issue. You need to stick in appropriate sized images. If they aren’t the right size you’ll need to slice them up on the client side. Is that cheap? Does the browser give you a way to not only decently resize, but also slice from an image?
links for 2008-01-24
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Like synergy, lets you share keyboard between multiple lan’d PCs.
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Cannibals. Fakirs. Crime and punishment. Rituals. Slaves, cults and customs. Warriors and weapons. Musicians and mendicants. Structures, conveyances, beasts, and more breasts than you can shake a stick at! This is The Secret Museum of Mankind.
links for 2008-01-23
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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.
links for 2008-01-22
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One finger text entry. One continuous line – but how fast is it?
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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
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Awesome – a script that downloads and installs trac on your shared dreamhost account.
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getting trac to attach comments to tickets as you make commits
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wsdl for rest. Tooling support for REST web services
New Look, problems fixed
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.
links for 2008-01-19
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debug running windows .net apps with managed events instead of windows events etc.
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Mainly for the superrich. But it is worrying.
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Great little essay about hacking dna – how virii in real life are just like computer virii etc.
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President Bill Clinton’s explanation of his marc rich pardon.
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HandyFind lets you find words as you type in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Notepad, and more. You’ll get where you want to go as soon as you enter enough letters. Don’t scroll around. Don’t use the Find dialog. Just type where you want to go.
For Sale: Small Table, Evil
I bought it because it was beautiful and because it was horrible. Some people want a house out of Home and Garden, I like a bit more of Haunted Mansion.
At night, when you sleep, it eats anything you’ve left on it and grows more tentacles. First a stack of mail and my penny jar disappeared, later I was searching for my black vase full of black roses. When I was looking for my car keys I noticed the nubs sprouting from the previously smooth underside.
The stray cats disappeared from the shopping market. The trees emptied of birdsong. The table became too long for the hall I had put it in, so I moved it to the foyer where there was a bit more room. I had to buy an area rug to cover the deep gouges it made in the floor as it paced at night. No matter, it looks great. I wouldn’t be selling this awesome table, but my fiance insists. It has learned to climb stairs.
I never should have shown her the scratch marks on the bedroom door upstairs. Now she won’t sleep over.
For sale to good goth owner, $666 or O.B.O.
links for 2008-01-18
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online language learning system freely available to everyone.