A Weekend Edition Sunday Morning

Stumbled my way out of bed this morning, powered up the laptop, and kicked on WBUR on iTunes. While half awake/half reading the Times headlines/half listening, I heard a story about egg nog recipes.

Wait... he sounds like Alton.

I am removing a dewar of liquid nitrogen...

It is Alton! Awesome. Here's the story, if you're interested.



They also had an interview with the songwriter Jonathan Coulton, who has been doing a new-song-every-week project. They played his song Code Monkey--very funny and cute; a worthwhile use of 3 minutes of your time. It's my understanding that it was a pretty hot netmeme/download for a while, but I missed it the first time.

Code Monkey like Fritos
Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew



Hey Boston locals--he's playing in Somerville and Cambridge on Tuesday (12th)! Also, his merch page is pretty good--hey Christy, they have a cool squid T-shirt!

Speaking of net stuff I missed the first time around, has everyone seen the Evite page for the War in Iraq? Very funny, in a rueful filled-with-hindsight way:

Hello World Leaders! Come join us, The United States, as we wage war on Iraq, November 14th in Bagdad! It should be a good time: CNN is coming, and we have some really cool new missiles and stuff. Saddam is totally evil, so you're not going to want to miss this!!!!

If you don't know how to get to Iraq, you can see a map here, or you can call Dick at his secure, undisclosed location for directions (202-774-0471). Please RSVP so we know how much pizza to order.

And, of course, the US and Britain are the only ones replying "Yes."