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[image: Over_the_Garden_Wall_poster.jpg] For those of you who don’t know (presumably all of you), Over The Garden Wall is a animated short series (10 episodes, 15 minutes each) that aired on Cartoon Network this past week. The story is of a young Teenager named Wirt (voiced by Elijah Wood) and his kid brother Greg. The two find themselves lost in The Unknown - a mysterious forrest full of mystical things - with no explanation of how they got their but searching for a way home. As they make their way through the forrest, they encounter many fantasy mini-stories that constantly subvert your expectations. But as they wander, darkness is close behind and they must work fast to escape the Unknown and return to their home. The series has a wonderful mixture of beautiful scenery, derpy character design, dumb comedy, and fantastic pre-twentieth century music, and it all meshes so well. The scenery makes it feel like an old ghost story: a fantasy forrest full of sepia tones, creepy shadows, and broken down houses. The characters stand out in their relative simpleness; their features are blocky, derpy, and charming. You may know the creator, Patrick McHale, for Adventure Time - some of the same stupid, blunt, unexpected humor pops up here. And finally, the music. The Petrojvic Blasting Company (or at least members of) put together an amazing mix of gypsy music and new orleans style jazz to make a sinister, uplifting, old-timey score. It really adds to that old ghost story feel. Overall, if you like cartoons even a little, this is definitely worth your time. At $10 for HD on google play, amazon, and itunes, it’s easy to get ahold of. Petrojvic Blasting Company also has their own album for sale through bandcamp where you can name your old price! If you’re like me and love music, this is a no-brainer. I like this show enough that if some a few of you are on the fence about it, I’d buy it for you. Same goes for the music. The Petrojvic Blasting Company are great and will send you a personal thank you if you leave them a nice comment. Let me know what you guys think! [image: overthegardenwall-580x326.jpg] [image: Image%202014-11-08%20at%2012.29.17%20AM.png@500x] [image: Image%202014-11-08%20at%2012.30.13%20AM.png@500x] [image: Image%202014-11-08%20at%2012.31.50%20AM.png@500x]

Woo hoo! Do you want to be included in the plugin contest? :smile:

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I made a plugin so that you can resize images in markdown specifically because of this thread. The syntax is based loosely on the way iOS handles multple image sizes combined with normal markdown image embedding:  [white house](http://cl.ly/image/2L3F1M2E1X3l/IMG_0136.JPG@500x) [white house](http://cl.ly/image/2L3F1M2E1X3l/IMG_0136.JPG@x375) [white house](http://cl.ly/image/2L3F1M2E1X3l/IMG_0136.JPG@50%) [white house](http://cl.ly/image/2L3F1M2E1X3l/[email protected]) Install via npm: npm install nodebb-plugin-image-sizer Source: https://github.com/Kern--/nodebb-plugin-image-sizer Known Issues: Images that are set to be wider than their container become elongated (width is set to match the container, but height is not adjusted). This means that mobile can get a bit dicey.

Btw npm link still works fine.

I gave @Schamper :moneybag: :dollar: :euro: :yen: :pound: :credit_card: :money_with_wings: :money_with_wings: :money_with_wings:

Yeah. I thought it was made of plastic. Then I found out that there are no plastic moto360’s :o The silver looked better in my opinion, but I’ll see if I got any pictures of the black one later.

6 v 5 is still pretty close.

If you’ve played Castle Crashers, you know it’s got a fantastic soundtrack (whoever did their sound engineering deserves a raise!) Well, I spent some time converting all the files to mp3 and adding metadata so I wanted to share my work with you so you can enjoy the awesome music. https://www.mediafire.com/?xbkftble4d4urro [image: CasltleCrashers.png]

#Cardboard Probably the weirdest part of I/O was the first gift to attendees. As Pichai was finishing up and announcing the gifts, he started out really vaguely with: “You’re all going to get a Cardboard, let us know what you think” [image: Cardboard.png] Turns out, this is actually pretty cool. The cardboard unfolds with a pair of lenses to form a head set like thing. Place your android phone in the holding portion and you’ve got a REALLY cheap VR headset. Google has demos for it as well as a VR toolkit so developers can make their own VR apps. If you didn’t attend I/O and still want to try out Cardboard, there are instructions on how to build your own. You need to buy some lenses (which run on amazon for about $18) to get the focal distance right, but otherwise all you need are some hosehold items! Check it out! [image: CardboardHeadset.png] home

I have just read that it will be using ultra sonic sound.

I’m kind of surprised that this is the thread that mostly flew under the radar. Android TV actually caught me a bit off guard and I was pleasantly surprised with what it is. First, the UI actually seems really well done. Being google and knowing context helps make the home screen work really well. Granted that I don’t use Google Play Movies, I’m not sure how much use I’d make of the content suggestions (or how accurate they would even be), but maybe it’d give me some inspiration to look up those titles on Netflix :P The second thing that I really liked about this was that google search is first class. Open menu -> “ok google” -> get whatever info you wanted. I could see myself using this all the time for when I think I recognize an actor from a different movie. Or even to get world cup group stats right on my TV! Third is casting. I like the idea of a chromecast, but I don’t know if I’d go out of my way to get one. If it’s part of my TV, though, I’d use that. One thing I didn’t mention in the original post is that Android TV does not need and Android phone. In the keynote, he controlled it with that beautiful red nexus 5 (:heart_eyes:), but he did mention that it needs “just a dpad and voice input”. I’d expect the TVs to come with these simple remotes. Definitely going to be considering one of these next time I’m looking for a TV (which probably won’t be for a few years)

It’s like cars that support onstar or services like that. The car has to have support for it, but I don’t expect having support to be a luxury service. The reason to do this over mounting your phone is that the UI is designed for the car. Things that you actually use in the car are up front. Interaction is also intended to be hands free as much as you’re willing to use voice commands. I don’t really see this as a big selling point for the cars, but if the car I as buying had it, I’d be happy with it.

I guess when you lift it up to your face, it ups the brightness, so maybe? LG said you can get up to 36 hours idle out of the gwatch. That’s 36 hours with the screen always on (probably at 30-40% brightness)

In the keynote I think it kept going. That might change by the time of release.

@Scuzz I think it’ll be a base for both oems and developers to branch from. Much like holo was.

Google I/O launched this morning with a really exciting Keynote. Among a few other things, Google announced a new design paradigm, the L version of android, 3 new niche android experiences, and a few small updates to current google products. The message of I/O 2014 was dominantly unification beyond phones. Google is pushing for consistent UI, contextual awareness, and voice/gesture controls across every aspect of technology in your life. As you’ll see, each of the new products google is rolling out has a familiar design while still adapting to specific devices and use-case. Google’s ecosystem is rapidly expanding, and, unlike Microsoft, they seem to be doing it correctly. This thread is mostly to coordinate by providing a table of contents and anything else that applies to all of my I/O threads. See each of the topics below for more info! Material Android L Android Wear Android Auto Android TV Misc Updates Cardboard

I would try and watch it all but the sound coming from one side of my headset is annoying as hell.

For anyone who’s interested, here’s a talk from Mozilla on rust: https://air.mozilla.org/guaranteeing-memory-safety-in-rust/ It’s a good introduction to the ideas behind what rust does and why it does them.