Bjørn Stabell 白熊

I’ve been having so much fun listening to songs and watching music videos by Jonathan Coluton, an ex-software developer gone Internet music artist, or “Internet star”. He originally made headlines with his “Thing a Week” project in which he would make and publish a song every week. Merlin Mann has a good interview with Jonathan where he discusses what the process was like.

Want to hear and see his stuff?

His unique background makes for some unique songs, very geeky songs, like code monkey and lately Still Alive, the end theme song for the popular game Portal, which the villain artificial intelligence GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) sings. It’s one of the coolest and funniest songs I’ve ever heard. Here’s a really cool and cute remake:

And here’s the original “Portal” end theme, in which GLaDOS writes the lyrics in a terminal, accompanied by ASCII art. Very cool, very funny, and very geeky The portal trailer is also worth a look.

Also funny and catchy is Flickr, which has the problem of being completely non-sensical if you don’t also see the music video at the same time:

Other favorities are Digg the Code, Mandelbrot Set, A Laptop Like You, and Skullcrusher Mountain.

What are your favorite geek songs?

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