The trailer for Serenity is out and it looks badass. It looks just like the show but on a larger scale and with a bigger budget. I\’m actually more excited about this than Episode III.

I\’ve been looking for something like this: the thorough History of the Batmobile covers all the Batmobiles from the comics, movies, tv shows, cartoons, and even alternate timelines.

DP Review has a preview of the Nikon D50, the new entry-level DSLR. It has the same 6 megapixel sensor as the D70, so picture quality-wise it should be same; it\’s just cheaper and easier to use. They also have news about the D70s. But the best news is that the D70 is firmware-upgradeable to have some of the same features as the D70s. Good thing cause I just got mine.

Trent Reznor released a song from the upcoming NIN album as a big GarageBand file that you can download and play around with. That\’s so cool. It\’s like getting the source code of a computer game. I wish I had a Mac now.

What I\’m giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for \”the hand that feeds\” in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.

The explicit content only version of Straight Outta Compton is like the opposite of what they\’d sell at Walmart.
[ From Boing Boing ]

I made a little time lapse video of the view out my office window at my old job. If only the work day could really go by this fast…
· Low quality (4.6 mb avi)
· High quality (10.6 mb avi)

Now this is cool. A company called Numark was showing off a prototype iPod mixer at a show in Frankfurt. It looks like the iPod\’s controls, including the scroll wheel, are replicated on the machine in a bigger scale.

The LA Times recently had an article about the John Lautner-designed Chemosphere, the Modernist house that looks like a UFO and has been in a ton of movies. I never knew that it\’s in the valley; for some reason I thought it was in the Hollywood Hills or something.
[ From Scrubbles.net ]

The Half-Life 2 expansion pack should be coming out this summer. Valve is actually making it themselves this time, unlike with the original Half-Life expansion pack which was made by Gearbox Software (although they did an excellent job). This one takes place right after the end of Half-Life 2, and Alyx has a bigger part in the story too.

I\’m obsessed with this video of Japanese rockabilly dudes dancing in a park. It\’s so weird! Is that how greasers dance? Somehow I don\’t think the Fonz would be caught dead doing this.
[ From evhead ]