Aaron Rutledge

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Amazing little animated music video. It catches so many aspects of what make anime great.

Susan Cain: The power of introverts (TED2012)

killscreendaily:

Trussed-up telenovela Downton Abbey, an Edwardian-set import, has captured this nation’s hearts and imaginations with its savvy combination of icy British subtlety and hot-blooded American-style romance. And much like your average everyday card-based RPG, the show often stages the fall of…

thepersonalnetwork:

We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.

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Finished this up this weekend and I’m quite happy with it! Classic “oh I love this song” jams from the early 90s. Wether you heard these songs at the club or at the rollerskating rink, most of you should dig it.

Pretty impressive. I hope this catches on as a real holiday, I’ll be celebrating next year!

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

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!

A perfect song for the coming winter.

cincishaolin:

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. - O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba

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.