{"id":2087,"date":"2010-02-03T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:57:07","slug":"they-seem-to-still-might-be-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/they-seem-to-still-might-be-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"They Seem to Still Might Be Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice little follow up to my glowing review of They Might Be Giants&#8217; new CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/they-might-be-giants-here-comes-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here Comes Science<\/a> on Time.com.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to see pro-science folks do well by not dumbing things down, contrary to the norm.\u00c2\u00a0 Those songs are still favourites around the house, I will often put it on while we are having dinner and the whole family bops along and sings the words.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually Cael usually also acts out the words, which has to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s way cool stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Check these guys out.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=60412239001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fvideo%2Fplayer%2F0%2C32068%2C60412239001_1954746%2C00.html&amp;playerID=42806370001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/42806370001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=293884104\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=60412239001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fvideo%2Fplayer%2F0%2C32068%2C60412239001_1954746%2C00.html&amp;playerID=42806370001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Special bonus, which I didn&#8217;t know is: they did the theme songs for Malcolm in the Middle, and The Daily Show.\u00c2\u00a0 Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice little follow up to my glowing review of They Might Be Giants&#8217; 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