Tuesday digest

[autographedcat]

What a cool project. How many album covers can you identify? Here are 60 album covers, stripped of all indentifying text. One of the things I miss about vinyl records is the covers -- yeah, some CDs still have interesting art, but it's so SMALL!

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Finally, a political movement I can get behind! (Thanks to lysana for the pointer!)

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rmjwell shows us the most compelling evidence yet that Schwarzenegger is just a puppet governer:



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filkerdave points me at this lovely tool for translating a phrase into and out of foreign languages until it loses all sense or meaning.

http://home.cwru.edu/cgi-bin/multibabel

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A very amusing eBay auction. Be sure to read all the text:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=3146042998

Comments

[delennara.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'd almost fall out of my chair aobut that auction!!!
Yeah, please get a life.
(I collect seashells, at the beach, I never care about tags)

beenies

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

That's real life entertainment. I briefly considered writing him a mail, asking if he could, please, take a picture of... no. Hihi.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

The album cover contest is fantastic!!

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I'm really scared at how FEW of those albums I recognize.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too ... just asked myself whether I'm too young or too old - I own exactly two of those *g*

[sibylle]

*nods*
must have had different artwork over here
(blindly convinces self of that)
though I know which age group I fall into.

Does knowing people that played on some of the albums personally help to get extra points?

[niquildrvr.livejournal.com]

You know, I was wondering the other day if people were still fanatically collecting those beanie babies. Now I know. $860???? Geez. I should clean out my closet.

[sibylle]

*love* that babelfish thing
we once made a lyrics quiz using bablefish, but only three languages. Was enough to render the songtexts completely absurd

I meant to say......

[sibylle]

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