Archive for July, 2007

Best Cover Songs

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

The NY Post published a list of the best 100 cover songs, and they put my version of “Baby Got Back” at #2 between Dolly Parton’s “Stairway to Heaven” and The Bangles’s’ss’ “Hazy Shade of Winter.” Admittedly this list is “in no particular order” so it doesn’t mean I did the second best cover song [...]

Which is Spookier?

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Is it:
1) a Mandelbrot Set the size (and perhaps even the shape) of the known universe,

OR
2) an image of me (or perhaps Dr. Zaius) found in a stain on a hardwood floor in a house in CT that I have NEVER VISITED OR STAINED?

(Thank you David and Alexander.)

JoCo Crosses the Pond

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

That is what the headline will read if sometime in the future I am actually able to set up a tour in the UK and/or Europe in general. I hope to do this, and really, we’re trying to figure out how to make it work. From looking at Eventful demands I can see that there’s [...]

Million Dollar Idea

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Here’s your million dollars right here: it’s called Splittr (or perhaps something else, but let’s just say).
The Creative Commons by-nc license is great for non-commercial collaboration – tag your content with this license and you indicate to everyone that you’re happy for other people to use it in derivative works as long as it’s non-commercial [...]

More Geek Honors

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Will the internet never cease to bless me with these small but wonderful signs of creeping cultural significance? Over at Instructables you can learn how to make your own Big Warm Fuzzy Secret Heart in ten easy steps. Thanks for the tip Claude…