Some Kind of Octosquid?
An undetermined species of a squiddish/octopuseous nature was caught in the filtration system of a natural energy laboratory in Hawaii last week. Check out the picture, it really does look like a squid and an octopus got married and had a baby. Scientists are checking it out now and they’re guessing it’s genus Mastigoteuthis but it could be a new species. If it is they’ll need a name – may I humbly suggest “Mastigoteuthis JoCo?”
Thanks Michael for sending this in…
Songslide: Pick Your Price
Ever since I came across Jane Siberry’s online store I’ve wanted to try offering that same kind of flexible pricing – when you buy her music, you decide what you want to pay for it. From what I hear, even though everyone who buys has the option of getting it free, generally the average price per song tends to stay much higher than a dollar. That is, until she gets some press – then the non-fans come out and screw up the curve.
I don’t have the chops (or the time or the will) to figure out how to set up a shopping cart that does that, so I was happy to hear about Songslide – they do pretty much the same thing, except there are high and low boundaries. When you’re picking the price you can see exactly how much money the artist gets. Most of my music is available there now, and they were kind enough to make me the artist of the week for this week. If you’ve been meaning to buy music from me but thought a dollar per song was too expensive (or cheap), now is the time…
Afraid to Move, Moving Anyway
It’s been several days and no website problems – I may not have mentioned, after that whole thing with deleted data there was also a situation with a bad network card. There were some unexplained outages that went away once they replaced that sucker. It’s running so smoothly now I don’t know what to do with myself.
Mailing list is not rebuilt yet, but I will say here that it’s official, we’re (that is to say me and Paul and Storm ‘re) going to Texas in September. I’ve just added a Houston show to the calendar, and there will be a couple other shows in other cities that get added around that. Texans: please do not kick me in the shins with the sharp toes of your cowboy boots.
I’ll also be doing a show at Union Hall in Brooklyn on July 10th, along with Graham Smith and The Petersons, the evening to be MC’d by the ever explosive Dave Hill. This will almost certainly sell out, so buy your tickets ahead of time.
Popsci Video Contest Winner
They’ve chosen a winner – I won’t spoil the surprise, just go here. Thanks to everyone who entered, there were some really great ones in there. I’m honored that you would all spend so much time working on something like this (even if you only did it for the iPod).
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