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Backdoor code planted in WordPress 2.1.1 after one of the wordpress.org servers was compromised.

ZOMG! http://rojaks.blogspot.com/2006/09/hello-kitty-craze-hello-kitty-airline.html (from phinnia)

Stereogum's "Yo! MTV Crap" feature is always good for a huge laugh and/or a healthy dose of "WTF??!!??". Today's post: Europe's 1987 epic, "Cherokee". "[C]an someone please tell us why a Swedish hair-metal band decided to sing about the forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s? This would be like Panic! At the Disco writing a song about the shameful evils of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882."

Speaking of the Cherokee, they just voted (76.6% in favor) to revoke the tribal citizenship of Freedmen. (a longer article from Saturday at washingtonpost.com)

Listen to a preview of "Big Wheel" from Tori Amos' upcoming album at the Epic Records forums. Tori channels Liz Phair: "I am a M.I.L.F./ Don't you forget." It's...different. Good different or bad different, I'm not quite sure yet.

Sinfest: It's metacular!

Breakfast of the Gods: The Last Good Morning. It's magically delicious fabulously demented. Go, read!

Recruiting ;)

YouTube is almost as bad as Wikipedia as far as the "oooh, clicky!" factor goes.

I know several of you on my f-list are already quite aware of Happy Rhodes. Those of you who aren't should take a peek at these (or at least turn them on and listen to them in the background as you do other stuff). The sound on the "Mercy Street" cover is better since it was apparently a soundboard feed.

Happy and Bon Lozaga cover Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street":

Watch on YouTube

( Happy performs Feed the Fire )

more Happy on YouTube

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Things I Am No Longer Allowed to Do Aboard the Battlestar Galactica
(contains spoilers through season 3)

221. I have not "had it with these motherfrakking Cylons on this motherfrakking ship".