Posted: July 26th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: music, tech | 7 Comments »

Yo, peep this shit: Numark is releasing a iDJ dueling iPod mixer. This would make a great addition to the next loft party, or the often-rumored CU promoter bar/dance event.
Link courtesy Engadget.
Posted: June 28th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites, general, tech | 2 Comments »

Quite simply, Google Earth is the coolest fucking thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
Stop reading. Go download. Freakout.
And, yes: Google stock is a steal at $300.
Posted: May 11th, 2005 | Author: Nghia | Filed under: art, tech | No Comments »
So the debate continues, as to which is better: Film or Digital cameras. Both film purists and the tech-saavy can argue that they have their own reasons for using either type of camera.
Heres my opinion:
Digital: pros: Its convenient because you can immediately see what you just took. Digital is cheaper to develop, because you only print what you really want. Easier to manipulate, because you can send it straight to a program like Photoshop and don’t have to scan it in.
cons: Sometimes looks flatter, doesn’t show depth that well. This can especially be seen in black & white photograpy (of course they’re improving upon this technology). Organizing digital can be tough. Can you tell the difference between a DCS00101 or DCS00102 file? Even though photo tagging helps, but its still an art, not a science. And you better have it backed up if you’re hard-drive decides to crash.
Film: pros: Its a tangible product which you can save permanantly. You can frame prints, no one ever had computer screens hanging on the wall. Its actually exciting to develop a roll of exposed film.
cons: Buying and developing film can be costly once you add it all up. They say that 35mm film maxes out and is the equavalent of a 3-4 mega-pixel digital camera. Thus the resolution is not as high as the newer digital cameras. Then you have to resort to using a slide scanner or drum scanner for a larger print .
Anyways, I’m gonna take it back to the Old Skool. This site shows you how to make your own Dirkon, 35mm camera. I’m talking about one of those fun pinhole cameras, not one of those dirty things that get Christian excited. But I guess he can still use a pinhole. That monkey.
Check out the gallery, all the pictures don’t look that much worst than Lomo cameras. This would be a nice Sunday afteroon project.
Posted: April 15th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites, general, tech | 10 Comments »

[ Just in case you're a total idiot, most of the following links are NSFW. ]
If Mr. Neal’s free porn website recommendation of YoungerBabes.com (NSFW) and BonerFuel.com (NSFW) just aren’t doing it for you anymore, then here’s your chance to take things up a notch: Virtually Jenna* “The Official Video Game of Jenna Jameson”.
As reviewed over at WiredNews, the newly released and fully-interactive Jenna includes all the typical dirty things you’ve ever wanted to do to a uber-whore-pornstar: from gentle carressing and fondling to double-entry dildos and anal beads, with the ultimate goal of getting the slutty starlet off.
Sorry, halfcracker. No cleveland steamers in this release. Gotta wait for the upgrade. But be sure to check out the demo video to see Jenna’s digital doppelganger in action.
And for those of you with those ever-so-annoying office computer network porn filters, here’s a SFW link to Jenna’s PG-rated publicity site, for her “ever growing legions of fans” (no pun intended, I’m sure).
* Astroglide not included.
Posted: March 10th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: events, music, tech | 9 Comments »

As if the official schedule wasn’t daunting enough, the tech-savvy people down in Austin are offering a 2.6 GB file containing over 750 free songs from this year’s bands.
Holy shit that’s a lotta music.
So, start clearing room on your iPod (or iRiver, if you’re lame like that). Or, you can download the smaller 350 MB file, but it only has 30-second clips of each song. Natch.
Note: both files require a BitTorrent client to download. And leave your BitTorrent client running (even after your download has finished). This helps reduce download times for other uber-hipster, swishy-haired audiophiles like Nghia.
And pray your office IT department doesn’t report your “suspicious bandwidth usage” to your boss…