Archive for May, 2005

More Fun with MP3Tunes

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Let me know when this gets boring, but Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow is now #5 in the list of top albums and Jonathan Coulton is now #1 (!) in the list of top artists. No special quirky filtering necessary. Dear Brobdingnagian Bards: eat it, sincerely, me.
I thank all of you who have been kind [...]

How Do You Like Them Apples?

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Airplay people! Airplay! Ikea has been getting a workout on a few specialty/mix shows at various radio stations around this great nation of ours, and is actually showing up on the fmqb submodern chart, tied for #10 with Dropkick Murphys and The Aquabats. What does this mean? Who knows!

Stormtroopers, Booth Babes

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Here are some photos of us looking cool at E3.

I interview a storm trooper, he threatens me with a blaster

Hodgman poses with booth babes who hate him and everyone else

Podcasts are up

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

The PopSci kids tell me they had a little trouble with the posting of our first show, but it eventually made it up there on Wednesday. Just finished the second one, and if all goes well it should be up tomorrow. Podcasting is time consuming, especially when you try to make it sound like radio. [...]

E3 is Coo Coo Crazy

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

So I’ve seen press briefings for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. I’ve had free hot dogs at the Microsoft party, and enjoyed a few delicious energy drinks, all the while toting my digital recording device and microphone around trolling for content. I must say, the PS3 looks pretty amazing. Xbox, yech, the system will be good [...]