The Jonathan Coulton Project

Hi,

Happy first of may, and to celebrate the coming of spring, why not watch a first of may video....

My Video: http://jocopro.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268824

Spiff's Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-77ElyvRxI

I don't normally speak out on issues like this, but I feel I have to.

Virgin Media, one of the big UK ISPs has stated they will start charging companies that have high bandwidth services, and if they don't pay, they will limit Virgin Medias bandwidth to them. There has been a great deal of dicsussion on Net Neutrality, but Virgin Media are the first company to publicly declare they will do this.

Even if you don't live in the UK, even if you aren't a Virgin Media customer, we all need to speak up now, as if Virgin Media do this, it will be a sign to all the other ISPs that their customers will let this happen, and then it will be too late.

So the UK concert happend, and it was the best.

I managed to get some video, although the video quality is very dodgy, the audio is fine:

Over There - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDT9ejTNimQ

The Saturday Boy (Billy Bragg cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KZzArJK0A

A bit of banter when Jonatha returns to the stage to find presents - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAKTzgFcdY

Anyone who has been visiting my site for about 2 years will remember me trying to arrange a UK tour, well dispite my best attempts I couldn't pull it off. Jonathan assured me he would cross the big pond to perform.

Well Jonathan is clearly a man of his word, as on March 20th (that is the day before Good Friday) he will be performing, for one night only in London at a place called Dingbats.

Book your tickets now, before they sell out. Only just under 500, and I think it will sell out (it will if I have anything to do with it!):

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=258531

I recently got an iPhone, and was not happy to find iTunes in the UK don't support ring tones.

After much investigation, I finally found a way to get Jonathan Coulton songs on my iPhone as ring tones on the PC for iTunes version 7.6.

1. Open your music file in your sound editor (e.g. Audacity), and crop it down to 40 seconds or less, if not already, then save.
2. Convert the file to an mp4 (using dvdvideosoft - video to iphone mp4 converter, yes video! - http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-to-iPhone-Converter.htm)
3. Rename the file with an m4r extension (make sure you first uncheck “hide extensions of known file types” in tools -> folder options -> view, or in Vista, Organise -> Folder and Search Options -> View Tab -> Untick Hide extensions for known types)
4. Drag the m4r file to your iTunes Ringtones window

Or you can download these and simply drag them to the ring tones window of iTunes:

• Code Monkey (Start of Song)
• Code Money (Chorus)
• Re: Your Brains (Chorus)
• Still Alive (Duet Version)

After a small outage on the official Jonathan Coulton forums, it was decided a back up place to chat may be required, so as a stop gap solution it was decided here was the place to go, so if the official forums are down, and you want to chat about JoCo stuff, post in the comments of this entry on my site.

I have sent up a forum on a free site, I suggest that is used:

http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/joco/

Hey guys,

I think this is really funny.

This video on YouTube is how to 'Hack' Jonathan's site to get his music for free:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfCldIq6pfM

Guess who got the first comment on it....Jonathan.

The only way it could have been funnier is if Jonathan's original comment had been allowed through:

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/01/31/hacking-my-site/

This is where he explians how to get the music from his site for free, that he doesn't care if people get his music for free, and why the default is to ask for money.

Other than Jonathan getting the 'First' comment, my favourite comment was 'Wow! Can you tell us how to get the new Radiohead release?' by mtgordon

Edited to Add:

The video was removed after about 2 weeks. My guess is the guy was too embarrassed by the first comment being from Jonathan.

Download: iPod WMV

This is the alternative version of the Mr Fancy Pants video.

It was shot at the same time as the original Mr Fancy Pants video that I released earlier this week, but had a different director.

I would like to thank all the people that made both of these videos possible. Including all our friends that joined in at the 'Award Giving' and also to Jinx, who supplied the Bedazzeler that spurred me on to actually doing the video as I had said I would about 12 months earlier. (If you hate it, you can blame her ;)

Just a quick post to point out that last years Ecard is still active and working. Just press the little envelope on the side menu.

Or the one in this post:

It has an awesome video made by Tom for Chiron Beta Prime. It is still my favourite video.

Download: iPod WMV

This is my version of the Mr Fancy Pants video. There is another version to come later in the week that is by the other major contributor to my video. But which one is better?