Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Code Monkey and other lovely tunes

Via the Java Posse podcast, I heard a great song called Code Monkey. I just wanted to make a general statement that the author and musician, Jonathan Coulton, is hilarious and he is doing something really interesting. It seems that he is creating a new song each week. He has a podcast called "Thing a Week".

Go here to see all of the work he had done and support him. You can hear any song he had done there as well as buy the songs or view the lyrics. All of Jonathan Coulton's music is released under the creative commons license.

The Jonathan Coulton Project is a group that takes these songs and makes music videos. They seem to be under a similar license. So far there are five videos available in both mp4 and wmv formats.

Monday, July 17, 2006

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less

Even though this was give to a group to Google developers this applies to everything. The professor is a sociologist and speaks about the human condition of choice. I think this applies to nearly everyone in nearly every field. It also applies to parents as they think about the happiness of their children and the choices they have.

I also want to say thanks to google for making this available to the public.