frogblog on SuperFrenchie!

Pamela’s great post on McCain appeared as a guest post on SuperFrenchie today! The title should be enough to whet your apetite: Put your lips together – and blow it out your ass.

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Awards

No, I don’t mean to talk to you about yet another strange musical endorsement (some geeks who used The Playground of the Baby Giants and Dinosaur as backdrops to software tutorials, and who massacred the songs through seemingly random editing). I’m talking about something else. I just got a special (and somewhat incestuous) You Make…

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Ingenuity. No, Really!

I don’t play computer games. I don’t own a console. I don’t even play cards. So I don’t know what possessed me to watch this video, and then to keep watching it. But if you’re even a teeny tiny bit geeky (if you own a TV or, say, a watch), hang in there during the…

Charts

I apologize in advance for this self-congratulatory post. As you know by now, I’ve posted my songs on many sites, some of which offer statistics on the number of plays and/or downloads. On Dogmazic, a French free-music portal where I posted a few French songs, I reached a couple of symbolic milestones this week: over…

Randy

Speaking of the 2008 Macworld Expo (the context of the latest Geeks in Love episode), you might want to check out the last few minutes of last Tuesday’s Steve Jobs keynote speech. Ever since Apple made it big in the music biz with the iPod+iTunes, these keynotes often end with a live musical performance. So…

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TMBG Podcast for Kids

They Might Be Giants, a great duo of a band (that people have often compared my music to, I’m flattered) have published 3 episodes of their new Podcast for Kids. Apartment 4 and 7 days a week are particularly stunning, both musically, in spirit and visually, at least as good as the best of Sesame…

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iPhone in the Wild

I just spent a week of R&R in the small family house in the tiny village in Normandy. I’ve installed an ADSL modem/wireless router there, and I brought my MacBook and my iPhone along for the ride. Things would have been different had I had to work, but as it was, I used my MacBook…