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Wacom are the company who is mainly known for their pen-based graphic tablets and touch screens is now making a move on the DJ Controllers market with the Wacom Nextbeat wireless controller. The Nextbeat controller lets the DJ/Music Producer/Performer take his controller away from the base station (STATION!) and keep working away from the DJ stand/Stage; now you can actually stand in the dancefloor and dance with people while you DJ!

 I didn’t realise there is a need for a Wireless DJ Controller that combines two digital players, a mixer, effector …

Remember Ultraviolet, the feel-good movie of the decade? Here’s a reminder:

Ultraviolet Trailer
Now via Story Games, I learned that someone has written an RPG that perfectly captures the film experience:
When fighting faceless, roll 2D6. That’s how many of them die. No, they don’t get to try to hurt you. You just kill them.
When fighting bosses, roll [...]

A catalog of 300 or so extra-solar planets, with statistics and orbital animations, all ready for someone’s space story or science fiction RPG campaign. [via Paul McAuley].

Now this is a macabre follow-up to my last post, about people dressing up as “real” superheroes:
A man dressed as Batman villain the Joker has been shot dead by police in America after pointing a loaded shotgun at them.
The dead man, who was said to be obsessed with the character, was wearing full costume and [...]

NORTH MIAMI, FL - March 12, 2009 - DJ software developer Mixvibes announces the release of Cross, a new digital vinyl software for Windows and MAC platforms. MixVibes drew from its experience in audio engine and vinyl control design to deliver a new professional DJ product that brings more efficiency and simplicity to the mix. Cross is built around a a high-end audio engine to deliver high quality industry-standard features, such as Hot Cues and Auto Beat Loops, and the deck layout is based on acclaimed DJ hardware bestsellers. The …

There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who are willing to dress up as comic book heroes and patrol the urban streets in search of, if not super-villains, then pickpockets and bullies.
They may look wacky, but the superhero community was born in the embers [...]

EKS is proud to announce the launch of its latest addition to the controller family. Known for its previous portable DJ controllers XP10 and XP5, EKS will now introduce the revolutionary Otus model range.
EKS Otus will bring fresh thinking to the DJ controller world. Otus are designed with both usability and technological progress in mind. While the controllers will feel familiar to users of current DJ tools they will also allow better use the software features of tomorrow.
The first one in the family - Otus dualdeck - is a professional 2-in-1 …

[ headline blooper ].
Despite the funny headline, the body of the news article actually uses the term embryonic stem cells (תאי גזע עובריים).

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Cumberland, R.I. (Mar. 5, 2009) – Numark, the world’s leading manufacturer of products for the DJ market, announces that its NS7 premium performance controller will be available worldwide on March 24, 2009. Numark developed NS7 in strategic partnership with software developer Serato.
In addition to NS7’s worldwide release on the opening day of the Winter Music Conference in Miami, Fla., Numark will present NS7 to the public at the Remix Hotel Miami March 26-29. Numark is a Title Sponsor for the annual event, which is focused on the creation, production, …

British DJ Fatboy Slim has entered rehab in a bid to kick alcohol addiction. The DJ, real name Norman Cook, checked himself into a U.K. rehabilitation center on Monday.
The news was confirmed by the 45-year-old manager Garry Blackburn: “It’s all pretty straight forward. He has gone in voluntarily to sort out his drinking problem.”
Cook was rumored to have previously been treated for alcohol dependency in 2002, but vehemently denied reports he had enrolled in rehab.
Cook has talked of his love of booze in the past. During a 2005 interview he …

The fantastic french duo Daft Punk(Bangalter and de Homem-Christo) which always had a robotic groove to it is now, according to the Upcoming Film Scores Blog, signed up to score the next Tron (Tron 2.0) movie by Disney a sequel to a movie about evil computers from 1982 (First movie scored by Wendy Carlos). The movie is scheduled for a 2011 release and will star Olivia Wilde and will be directed by Joseph Kosinski. Daft Punk have already worked on two movies before, Interstella 5555 and their own feature, Electroma, …

ועוד באותו נושא - יומן אישי של רורשך, קורע מצחוק:
Stopped in Target. Shoplifted one pair “Dr. Manhatten” Boxer Briefs for sheer irony. Clearly licensee suffered head trauma as child.
Conundrum: Send to Osterman? Wonder if underpants have half-life. Would send pair to Veidt, but imagine all unmentionables are color-coordianted.
(תודה לדותן).

דווקא אני הייתי מתרגם את זה להנוטרים. כי The Watchmen זה לא בדיוק התרגום המתבקש להשומרים. הקונוטציה התרגומית הראשונה היא Guards, וזה בהחלט לא משרת את המטרה. אבל בהחלט יכלו להיות תרגומים הרבה יותר גרועים כמו אנשי השעון (כן כן, דברים דומים קרו כבר) או הצופים.
מחר יום שבת, איימקס ודיווחים מצפיה שניה.