Joel Hodgson, of MST3K fame, does a Q&A on Slashdot!

He was one of the founders of Msytery Science Theater 3000 but left the show, citing creative differences, before the end of its run. He has recently started a similar film-ripping operation called Cinematic Titanic. Slashdot readers proposed several questions, here's Joel's answers.

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/25/1457218

Free music!

Always a good thing.

There's a project called RPM, the goal is that during the month of February, you make an album. It can be multiple tracks, it can be one long jam, whatever. But you write and record it in one month. the music equiv of NaNoWriMo.

Now, I make no claim as to being a musician, so there's no way I'm participating it (ignore the < 20 free hours a week thing). But they have an online jukebox of last year's recordings! I'm listening to some pretty cool electronica right now. I just wish they had a torrent of all of last year's songs: they had 850 albums submitted last year!

Anyway, the jukebox is at http://www.rpmchallenge.com/jukebox/

New web comic: Project Skinhorse!

You may or may not be familiar with Shaenon Garrity's Narbonic series, it was a very cool mad scientist comic. Well, that ended many moons ago, and now she's back with a new series called Skin Horse. It's about genetically modified animals and opens with a cross-dressing psychiatrist trying to talk down a modified lion. There's only a few week's of material right now, so easy to get current on it. Also, you can find Narbonic off of this site.

Recommended.

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php