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15 Best Skylines in the World

03.28.06

Browsing the web and I found a fun website with some cool facts.  The 15 Best Skylines in the World list Luigi Di Serio’s top picks with fun facts about buildings and great photos.  I think this gives me a great list to start my list of “Cities I need to visit”.  I haven’t gone anywhere besides New York (#4) and Seattle (#15), but Schlosser just got back from Tokyo (#5), Castle went to Toronto (#7) to watch a F1 car race, and Hooper just went to Shanghai (#3).  I love cool cities, so I am going to start making my list.  Look back here in about a week or two for my list!  I totally want to visit Hong Kong and Shanghai, so a trip to China might be in order for me.

New DJ equipment, maybe a breakthrough for the casual DJ

03.28.06

iLounge is reporting that Numark, who makes various DJ equipment like mixers and turntables, will debut the updated iDJ2 iPod mixer.  The original iDJ had several major flaws which have been fixed.  It has pitch control which would allow you to beat match perfectly.  I don’t know if they fixed the issue with cued listening, so your cued channel is in the headphones while the other channel is pumping up the crowd.  Now with only one iPods required you can play two tracks simultaneously, record the mix back to the iPod, and use external hard drives that can attach via USB.  Hopefully they keep the price around $300, since the original iDJ was $250, which would bring the casual home party DJ market right to Numark’s doorstep with cash in hand.  I look forward to stopping at Guitar Center to play with one of these in the coming month.

Source: Engadget, iLounge