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Rob say Code Monkey very diligent
but his output stink
his code not functional or elegant
what do Code Monkey think
Code Monkey think maybe manager oughta write goddamn login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy just proud

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a- week-29-code-monkey/

I think I can handle the appearance of the worm-bot. I just don't want someone like Jonathan Coulton writing a song about it. Those d*mn things get stuck in my head and I really would not appreciate that.

The Furry Old Lobster already has a song about him, even.

"remember everything you read" pills

I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me
I take a wake up pill and fill with energy
I power on hard and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
I take a driving pill and head to my car
I drive around a bit cuz work isn't very far
I call my phone and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
...
And I feel fantastic
...

"remember everything you read" pills

I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me
I take a wake up pill and fill with energy
I power on hard and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
I take a driving pill and head to my car
I drive around a bit cuz work isn't very far
I call my phone and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
...
And I feel fantastic
...

"I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you,
But I get the feeling that you don't like it.
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies,
Maybe you don't like monsters so much?
Maybe I used too many monkeys;
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?"
-Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton

Well, since P2P networks are here to stay, it appears that the only thing musicians can do is try to live with it. I can cite here the example of Jonathan Coulton, who actually released most of his songs via a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, free as in beer). He actually does get some money from donations, as in one of his posts he mentioned becoming a hundredaire. So now I guess that, after reading his success story, all other musicians and record companies will install a BitTorrent tracker and start sharing away. Not.

As referenced: On Boing Boing!,
mentioning the 700 hobo names,
which were recorded with geek-folk-copyleft-rocker Jonathan Coulton,
as can be heard here,
or seen illustrated by a number of independent artists via Flickr,
and as was also mentioned with great humor on November 16th's Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Here's the song and the Lyrics

Now, take a musicians web server to its knees will ya! :)

Fine, here, have a mirror:

"You're one badass fucking fractal " :)

"Pathological monsters!" cried the terrified mathematician.
"Every one of them is a splinter in my eye.
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve,
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set, and the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry."
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down

Chorus
Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z's should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

"Pathological monsters!" cried the terrified mathematician.
"Every one of them is a splinter in my eye.
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve,
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set, and the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry."
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
A bulbous pointy form
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down

Chorus
Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
If the series of Z's should always stay
Close to Z and never trend away
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set