5 (More) Questions and One Demand for ASL Singer Stephen Torrence
In May of this year, Stephen Torrence and cohorts wound up performing his sign language interpretation of the song “First of May” onstage with Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm. (It’s a song about...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton Sings a Brand New Record for 1990
This past Saturday, geeky music fans in Chicago had a choice. They Might Be Giants was playing at Vic Theatre, as part of a tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Flood.” (Rolling Stone has a great...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton Talks Music, Technology and uPlaya.com
Behold, JoCo in concert. (Brianjmatis/Creative Commons License) It’s possible I went a little overboard in writing this week’s Discovery News piece about uPlaya.com, the Web site that lets musicians...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton, The Web and the Art of the Legal Bootleg
I didn’t go to many concerts as a kid. I grew up in a remote enough area that most of the performers I wanted to see didn’t tour near my hometown. But when I did have the chance to see a show, the...
View ArticleThey Might Be Giants Crowdsources a Homestar Runner Film
Last night, I and many of the other nerds in the metro Atlanta area headed down to Variety Playhouse to see Jonathan Coulton and They Might Be Giants. It was a cool evening made cooler by accidentally...
View ArticlePandora Radio and IRC on TechStuff
Before we dive in, I thought you might like a quick update on how things stand in the office. As I write this, our newly-renovated studio is nearing completion. Or, to put it in Star Wars terms, it...
View ArticleGearing Up for Dragon*Con: Tips for Con Crud Prevention
They're not purple soot sprites: This is a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of norovirus virions. Welcome to gastroenteritis, population: you. (CDC/ Charles D. Humphrey) Here’s a nifty number,...
View ArticleThe Best in Terms of Fans: JoCo Cruise Crazy
If I had been remotely diligent in this blog during the month of December, you might have noticed my conspicuous absence last week. But since I haven’t been diligent at all … last week I was out of the...
View ArticleMusic: Remembering the Space Shuttle Columbia
It’s eerie that America’s most infamous space exploration disasters have anniversaries so close to one another. The three crew members of Apollo 1 were killed in a fire on the launch pad on Jan. 27,...
View ArticleNew Media Success Stories on TechStuff
Yesterday’s episode of TechStuff was all about using the Internet as a platform to deliver content that you might normally find on more traditional kinds of media like television or the radio. The...
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