The Red Army Choir joins forces with Finnish rock group Leningrad Cowboys to sing . . . the Alabama national anthem.  The only thing that could top this is the nuns from Sister Act dropping "Like a Virgin".

Holy shit, I've never seen anything like this in my life.  These two are amazing.

(Credit to Marc Andreessen, whose new blog is highly recommended.)

Is it just me, or is Google at least partially offline?  I can't load their home page or execute searches from the toolbar.  Gmail seems to be working; however, Google Reader is not.  No, wait, Gmail isn't working either.  That, or my cookies are completely hosed.  Whatever the cause, Google is effectively offline to me.

I know technical glitches occur every day, but it's so weird when they happen to an integral component of online life.  I literally thought, at least for a moment, "how am I gonna search for stuff?!".  There's a reason why Google has become a synonym for search, but Yahoo! is not, even though Yahoo! predates Google by several years.

On a completely unrelated note, some Disney-bankrolled "family band" (the Jonas Brothers) has recorded a modified version of Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" for Meet the Robinsons, and the world has darkened a little more as a result.

ETA: Maybe it was just me.  IE became more and more unstable—context menus wouldn't come up; opening a new tab locked up the browser—and I eventually had to reboot my computer.  Everything (including Google) seems to be All Better now.

Ganked from a_newchapter4me: enter your birth year into YouTube's search and post a video.

I guess Johnny Cash's birthday was just a few days ago, so this seems appropriate.  Check out those horns!

A new music meme, using covers from albums I actually listen to on a semi-regular basis, because you don't have enough images to download on your friends page as it is:



( the list )

Not exactly comprehensive, but I didn't want to be here all night.

This was going to make me hate the world a little more, until I found out that Devo was involved in the project and, upon listening to some of the tracks, I realized the music isn't half-bad.  I mean, they sound like Devo would sound with a bunch of tweeners doing the playing and singing.  I have a feeling Alex would dig this in a large way.

And Mark Mothersbaugh has doing music for kids' shows for years (Rugrats for one), so this isn't nearly as unusual as I thought it might be.  The quirkiest bands seem to be the most appealing to kids anyway; just look at They Might Be Giants.  I'd love to see Primus do a kids' album, for example.  That would be hilarious.