Ironwolf

Dear God: file under Problem of Evil.
Dear God,
hope you got the letter, and…
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer
but all the people that you made in your image, see
them starving on their feet ’cause they don’t get
enough to eat from God, I can’t [...]

Music by Harold Arlen, words by Yip Harburg, who also wrote the words to Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Sung by Audra McDonald.
Life is short, short, brother,
(Ain’t it the truth!)
And there is no other,
(Ain’t it the truth!)
You got to rock that rainbow
While you still got your youth,
Ain’t it the dignified truth!
Was a guy called Adam,
(Ain’t it [...]

Number 10 in a series.

Merry Christmas! Don’t be ashamed to say it.
Translation: Happy Solstice! Don’t be ashamed to help us bury the truth.
Winter Solstice
Embedding disabled on this one. Go and watch it here.
Reason for the Season?
Vienna Teng — The Atheist Christmas Carol
Vienna Teng, from her album Warm Strangers
It’s the season of grace coming out of [...]

Nerdcore: hip hop by nerds, for nerds.
Several of the songs below are NSFW.
Schaffer the Darklord — The Rappist
Hi-res QuickTime version here.
MC Hawking — Fuck the Creationists
[Site]
MC Hawking — What We Need More Of Is Science
MC Frontalot — Bizarro Genius Baby
[Lyrics]
MC Frontalot — It Is Pitch Dark
A treat for fansaddicts of the old Infocom text [...]

I’ve seen tesla coils live at Burning Man numerous times— they’re incredibly loud.
Quoth Doc Brown: “If we could somehow harness this lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work…”
Introducing the Zeusaphone.
A Zeusaphone Mario Bros. duet…
Dr. Zeus playing with the Zeusaphones. Or are they playing with him? Or does the water get him [...]

Last weekend I went to a conference where some had brought an XBox 360 with the first-person puzzle game Portal. I got to see it played all the way though, and I still want to play it myself, which is saying something. The end of the game had a wonderful surprise as the credits roll: [...]

ALBINO! is a San Francisco-based Afrobeat band that I was introduced to at this year’s Burning Man. They’re quite fun— I love the “wall of saxophones” sound.
Puppet Boy
No Go Sell
Live at Mystic Hot Springs

This hit my mailbox in the form of a 2.4 MB Windows Media attachment. I enjoyed it, but I’d like to remind everyone that if it’s worth clogging up people’s inboxes with, it’s probably already on YouTube.
Try to remember that.
Tom Rush performed this at Judy Collins‘ Wildflower Festival

I first saw the Extra Action Marching Band live at Burning Man about three years ago. They have a habit of showing up in public out of nowhere for impromptu performances, and their unique combination of serious musicality and bacchanalian revelry is truly intoxicating.
Enter the Dragon
Black Chicken
Guanguango

There’s no substitute for seeing them live, but this will give you a little of the flavor.
Time To Start
Drum Bone
I Feel Love (with Venus Hum)
Mandelbrot Part 4
Earth To America