So GeekPop ’10 has started, and they’re kicking things off with an online treasure hunt.

Prizes include hula hoops, giant bubble-making kits and vouchers for mp3 downloads from 7digital.

Go, search, have fun!

This is not explicitly a song about science (although it’s getting harder and harder for me to draw that line), but I’ve got a remix coming out as part of the fascinating project that Pocket has been doing – releasing an album of collaborations with all-stars (like Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Kilbey of The Church and Craig Wedren of Shudder [...]

I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. It’s an early draft, so who knows what will happen, but thus far dancing robots, monocles and several songs from this very site have been mentioned.

David Barnett, the Guild salutes you!

Between playing on Wednesday and moving into a new house, there hasn’t been any time for writing and recording – so the 23rd will go by without a new song.

It will arrive soon, along with a penitential cover.

Thanks for understanding.

It’s 11 p.m. Eastern, so I’m claiming this as still the 23rd, and I’m submitting a vastly improved mix of“A Strong Enough Lie.” Drums are now matched to beats, extraneous things have been cut away and that saz part makes more sense.

Sometimes, even coffee isn’t enough to make it all make sense the night before. If you’ve [...]

How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now?

It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with the Science Songwriters Association. Any outfit that includes The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets and Mose Allison in the same list is OK by me.

So very many songs…. Breathtaking.

MASSIVE and [...]

Yes, it’s the 23rd. There should be a new song here. There isn’t.

You, oh faithful readers, will have a scientific song rather soon. And then, as is the custom here, you’ll have a truly horrible penitential cover.

Mea culpa.

I’ve just been interviewed in this new zine, Eye Ball.

It is a dictionary of joy and interesting things.

There are entries consisting of bhaji recipes, and of interviews with David Rees of Get Your War On, and of a description of the upside-down horse of Lascaux, and celebrating the Humboldt squid.

If you are reading this here, [...]

I’m blowing this month’s deadline in a big way, I think – moving out of my house this week. Many things in boxes. Phone & internet going down.

But the finished thing should be interesting. And a penitential cover song about science. Not sure which to choose, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know!