Skitch

I got invited to the beta of a cool mac software called Skitch.

You can take screenshots, draw on top of them, and then drag out an image file to use in any application or you can upload it to your online Skitch account and embed pictures in places like blogs. The picture above was uploaded and embedded with Skitch. First person to comment gets my invite. Next person has to be invited by the first person, etc., etc. You don't know how convenient this is. If only Sapiens recognized it...

Smearing Our Name All Over the Internet

You probably have noticed some new buttons on the sidebar and under the posts. I toss around the word "probably" alot, but the point is that you should look right now for these buttons. On the sidebar, you can digg, share on facebook, add to del.icio.us, and stumbleupon. Under posts, we have digg and facebook. The buttons under posts apply only to that specific post, while the ones on the side are for the main page. Unlike the rest of the internet, you might not know what all these sites are. Here is my handy guide to these websites.

• Digg: A "news" site. People vote to "dig" an article or "bury" it. Articles with the most diggs make the front page. Since Digg is so popular, front page = famous.


• Facebook: Social site designed for girls who like to post hundreds of pictures of themselves making strange faces. People can invite you to add apps, 90% of which are quizzes/advertisements. The average Facebook member has 11 friends that they don't think they actually know but added them because they aren't sure. I think everybody reading this knows what Facebook is.


• Del.icio.us: They call it "social bookmarking". I honestly don't have any idea what it is and don't really care. All I know is that it is popular and can somehow magically make your site popular.


• StumbleUpon: Poor man's Digg. Dumb logo.

All these are part of an effort to increase our sad amount of traffic we get. I even think that the Digg button is working; we have two diggs, one of which is mine and the other is some form of spam bot.

LOL its BLOGGING IRL

Today I was thinking about moving some of our entirely virtual blog out into the real world. I want to get stuff out into a physical form that someone can find somewhere, look at, and pass on. I want to devolve AKoKK into a paper form and then pull people back into our blog on the internet. My idea is to make a collection of writings and drawings folded from a single sheet of paper that gets passed from person to person. And we would make a bunch of cheap black and white copies to give away for free. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I mean a zine. I got the idea from a book I got for Christmas about what zines are and how to make them. Its the kind of thing that can be about whatever you want- it can be about all kinds of crazy crap.

Note: I wrote this really late at night and decided to post this now. I still like the idea, though. It took me a while to decide to spell that last part "crazy crap" or "krazy krap". I went with the more subtle and grammatically correct one.

DC Adventures

Besides the various famous monuments that reside in Washington, D.C., I saw many things that, although less well-known, were just as interesting. In addition to what I saw at the airport (see earlier post), I witnessed one of the interactive displays at the Smithsonian proudly showing the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death". A boy there says to his dad, "How do you use this?" His dad replies, "That means that its broken. You'll get used to that screen." Seriously people, if you're going to use Windows, at least upgrade to XP.

I also passed by the holy church of Scientology. Want to hear a joke? Scientology!

One of the coolest things I saw, though, was what is quite possibly the longest escelator in the world. Located at the Metro stop in DuPont Circle, it is not something you would want to walk up. Trust me, I would know; the escelator just happened to be broken when I was there. Pictures soon.

The Internet is down at the hotel so I'll post this when I can.

Now I am in Vermont. The internet is working just fine here so I am posting all of this. It was a nice drive here, we got to enjoy the scenery of at least 20 car accidents on the icy snowy road. There was lots of traffic because two cars had crashed on opposite sides of the road leaving just enough space for one car at a time to go through. Also, pictures soon.

Sapiens

So I read about sapiens and downloaded it, and was definetely not dissapointed. I'll let ya'll read about it on the Sapiens website.

Get Sapiens here: SAPIENS HERE!!

Also, it only works on macs.

2008

Happy New Year from the east coast! Although I'd like to think that I am somehow farther into the future than all the people in GMT-6:00 and below, I'm really just in a different year according to time zones and calendars. So, what does 2008 mean for AKoKK?
AKoKK's New Year Resolutions

• At least one (1) podcast


• Some super-cool t-shirts for our "hard working" bloggers


• Install a hit counter to see how few readers we actually have


• And lastly, make 2008 seem awesome compared to 2007

Thank you and good night!

Back from Oaxaca

I just got back from nine days spent in Oaxaca. It was really fun and I reccomend it to anyone. Maybe if I feel more energetic I'll write about it and post some pictures.