At the Mattsapundit Research & Development Directorate, scores of underpaid Indian engineers have been coding day at night, and they’ve come up with a few technical improvements around here.

• The “What I’m Reading” and “What I’m Watching” features in the sidebar allow you, the enraptured reader, to learn and emulate my preferences in literature and film. Click on the book or movie title to be taken to Amazon.com, where you can buy the item, thereby funneling money into the Mattsapundit Beer Acquisition Fund.
• The “Print” link now at the bottom of each post brings up a clean, printer-friendly copy of that post, perfect for Xeroxing 500 times and stapling to telephone poles all over town.
• The new categorized blogroll lists my favorite spots from all around the blogosphere.
• I’ve also installed plugins under the hood to allow me to manually order links/categories, generate Google Sitemaps, backup the database, mass edit comments, weed out spamming scumbags and other cool things that you don’t get to see.

Coming upgrades include:

• An “email this post” link after every post.
• A better title image.
• A slick image uploading/resizing/posting mechanism.

Stay tuned, folks…