So about 10 years ago I used to stream audio from winamp to a shoutcast server. Then a bunch of listeners would hang out on IRC and talk about music, and internet stuff, what have you. Well.. I was missing that kinda time-wasting, so I setup a little thing on Mislabel. It’s just a chat room, with a shoutcast relay! 1 person can DJ at any time, and everyone in the room can listen. It feels a lot like the old days, but way easier to setup. Pop in if you want, I’m working on a way to make it auto-dj 24/7 on it’s own!
Time once again for me to dig through my last.fm history and itunes play counts to bring you all my picks for the best music you may have missed. Top 10 countdowns step aside and new, clearer categories are named for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Best Head Nod Grooves
Samiyam - Sam Baker’s Album
Best Guitar Based Album
Grails - Deep Politics
Best Hope for American Electronic Music
Sepalcure - Sepalcure
Best Album for Breaking Blocks
C418 - Minecraft: Volume Alpha
Best Thing Jamie XX Mentioned This Year
Greenwood Sharps - Things Familiar
Best Aphex Twin Substitute
Dave Monolith - Welcome
Best Album for Adventuring
Jim Guthrie - Sword & Sworcery LP
Best Use of Seinfeld Bass & SNES Drums
Rustie - Glass Swords
Best Summertime Album
SBTRKT - SBTRKT
Best Album Overall
Zomby - Dedication
Here’s one of my fall projects that has come along nicely. This is the latest prototype for a two-player card game that I’ve been designing. It’s tentatively titled “Revival of English Magic”, and is set several years after the end of the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I’ve read this novel a bunch of times over the past seven years since its publication, and the style, setting and characters have made such an impression that I wanted to expand that world a bit more. I hear rumors that Susanna Clarke is working on another novel, but her website has disappeared this year.. so that doesn’t give me much hope.
As for the game, I’ll worry about publishing, rights, and all that stuff later once I get the ratios smoother and maximize the fun. The base mechanics borrow a bit from the Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh TCG’s, but are based on a fixed set of cards (no way to buy yourself a better hand here). Each player plays the role of an English Magician in the year 1822. The game simulates a gentlemanly duel between them. Players take turns expanding their libraries with books, relics, and gardens. Then tap into the implicit powers of these items to cast spells and summon fairies to do their bidding. I’ve stayed true to the themes set in the novel, so the players do have to manage the line between madness and reason as they weave their magic, or else do themselves harm.
Overall it’s been a really fun project! Hopefully it will see some scale one day, or at least catch the attention of the author or her publishers!
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. - O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba
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28th October 2011
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Reblogged From d-d-d
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Since I started reading about Stripe.js last week, the deeper I look into this API, the more I’m convinced that this is going to be huge. Stripe is poised to be the Square for coders. Just like any small business can get up and running with an iPhone, and one of those little white block readers.. now any decent developer can get crackin and quickly, securely, and simply add credit card transactions to their site/app.
I have a few little ideas kicking around the back of my head for what I may use this for.. but I just need to rustle up the time to put in into gear. Most likely I’ll pair this with trying out something on the FuelPHP platform.
Whatever moans and groans you hear (or emit) whenever someone says “in the cloud”. This is a perfect example of a nugget of goodness that cloud computing is really bringing forward.
An awesome read. Highly recommended.
This is really really awesome.
(Source: vimeo.com)
I posted on Twitter today asking if anyone had an idea for what to do in this situation:
- A friend of yours sends you a link to awesome cat video, etc
- You saw said link yesterday/last-week/4-seconds-ago and enjoyed it
- Your respond with a default “old / seen in / haha”
- Your friend is now a bit insulted, even though they only sent it to you to share common interests, and collectively celebrate how awesome the cat was.
So what’s an online addicted soul to do? What can we use to say “I saw that previously, and yes, I loved it too!”. We’ve all gotten so good at trolling, we don’t have any good ways to give each other high fives.
