In the Air Tonight
DJ Oxide plans four different events to celebrate two-year Empire residency
Anthony Augustine
O2 in the Basement — Two-Year Anniversary
Parties — www.djladyhouse.com;
www.urbnet.com/djoxide/;
www.myspace.com/zsuzanna;
www.judgejules.net
— After two solid years of dishing out funky house and minimal
techno in the basement of The Empire, resident DJs Oxide and Audio
Angel (Suz) are celebrating with a busy month of special events.
Kicking things off on March 17 is San Francisco’s DJ Ladyhouse.
The following week will be the official Winnipeg release party
for Oxide’s debut 12-inch on Blunted Funk Recordings. Popular
London radio/club DJ Judge Jules will be in town for his first
Winnipeg performance on March 29. And just two nights later it
should be chaos in the basement, as every DJ who has played the
club over the past two years has been invited to come down and
spin. All shows will be at The Empire.
NBC Web Highlights— www.nbc.com/Video
— The viewing habits of North Americans have shifted drastically
over the past few years with the introduction of digital video
recorders, on-demand programming and torrent feeds, so networks
are scrambling to change the way they deliver content. After tiring
out a team of lawyers by trying to stop video portals such as
Google and You Tube from rebroadcasting its clips, NBC has decided
to host the videos itself in hopes of recapturing some ad revenue
and generating web traffic. You can bet other major networks will
quickly follow suit.
Pacman on an iPod — tinyurl.com/lel79
— It surprises me that it’s taken coders this long
to port over video games for the iPod. Using the same Multiple
Arcade Machine Emulator (Mame) technology that allows you to play
old-school video-game consoles on your home PC, this program will
soon have you gobbling pellets on your Ipod Nanos or any of the
new video iPods. It’s only a matter of time before more
games are adapted for this open-source project.
Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN & Yahoo
— tinyurl.com/8l2mm
— Anyone with a Gmail account has probably already noticed
that Google has finally integrated the much-anticipated Google
Talk feature with its web-based e-mail system. On the surface
this doesn’t seem that exciting — who really needs
another instant messaging program — but a simple work-around
will allow you to integrate all your IM accounts into one handy
system. After some easy tweaking, you’ll be chatting with
all your contacts from within Google’s webmail program.
This way you don’t have to get your buddies to set up an
account to be able to use Google Talk.
MySpace Meet Up — www.myspace.com
— If you actually want to meet some of the people you spend
hours online chatting with, you might want to head down to Shannon’s
Irish Pub on March 16. Although Winnipeg has a fairly active MySpace
community, this is the first official meet-and-greet that has
been organized.
Anthony Augustine is a freelance music and pop culture writer
who spends way too much time in front of the computer. He also
hosts a weekly two-hour electronic music program on CKUW 95.9
FM Got a site you think he should see? E-mail him at anthony.alloneword@gmail.com. |
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