odd letters » nerd rock rocks! http://oddletters.com they just fill your head with numbers Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Coolest Thing Ever Today http://oddletters.com/2009/12/19/the-coolest-thing-ever-today-2/ http://oddletters.com/2009/12/19/the-coolest-thing-ever-today-2/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:00:07 +0000 molly http://molly.transneptune.net/?p=134 (an occasional continuing series of the absolutely best things ever of a given 24-hour period)

Anyway. The Coolest Thing Ever Today is this brilliant ASL version of Jonathan Coulton’s “Re: Your Brains.”

Mr. CaptainValor has an extensive channel list of other sign-interpreted songs. It might be the extreme sleep dep talking, but I have an uber insta-crush on this guy now.

…I have to stop doing that.

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Why yes, it was epically awesome.

Check out the full flickr set of the Jonathan Coulton & Paul and Storm concert here.

]]> http://oddletters.com/2009/12/06/what-i-did-yesterday/feed/ 2 my immediate future is exciting and cramped http://oddletters.com/2009/12/04/my-immediate-future-is-exciting-and-cramped/ http://oddletters.com/2009/12/04/my-immediate-future-is-exciting-and-cramped/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:23:32 +0000 molly http://molly.transneptune.net/?p=89 Big day tomorrow. First, TEDxUniPittsburgh. I’ll be presenting a talk on the C/cultural C/commons and thinking about culture with a long term, sustainability view, rather than through a short term ownership or production lens. I won’t call it an anti-copyright stance, though I’m sure someone there will. Look for the video here soon.

Then, Jonathan Coulton live at the Rex Theater. ::cue squeeee!::

Then then, back to work on my long long list of deadlines. It isn’t getting any longer, thank god, but it also doesn’t seem to be getting any shorter.

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My bootleg download of “The Fame Monster” has the curses blanked out. (It sounds like GaGa is saying, “I’m a free bint, baby,” which is arguably worse than “free bitch.”) That’ll teach me, I guess.

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And, finally, a dispatch from the Land of Duh, via the BBC. It seems that children who use technology are ‘better writers.’

But, frankly, if patronizing articles like this lead to serious pedagogical attention being paid to the benefits digital connectivity has to offer the academy, I’ll bite my tongue and take it.

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