February | 2007 | puppet wrangling

Is it Friday already? Must be, if it’s already time for this:

I want a girl to make a mess
“Badge” by Cream, guessed by Kim
Now he’s married to Mabel
Curtis C called
“The Long and Winding Road” by the Beatles, guessed by Thud
I’ve seen that road before
You never seem to want to dance anymore
I’ll probably be some kind of scientist
“La Isla Bonita” by Happy Drivers (orig. Madonna), guessed by Kim
It all seems like yesterday, not far away
The cries around you, you don’t hear at all
“Epistle to Dippy” by Donovan, guessed by Kim
The doctor bit was so far out
“Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Kim
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove

You know the drill. These are lyrics. In the comments, you guess the song and artist. We all walk away mildly amused. Good luck!

Not for the first time, I wish I had Showtime: the trailer for the new This American Life TV show, premiering next month.

I don’t know…I just feel like a real Lost jigsaw puzzle would be missing a few crucial pieces.

Princeton ESP lab to close. Guess the psychics there didn’t see this one coming.

Brave new world:

“Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.” [link | via]
“Astronauts’ spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts’ movement, according to futuristic research being conducted by a new lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.” [link | via]
“A vicious Mexican drug gang war has moved onto the Internet video site YouTube, where rivals taunt each other with blood-soaked slide shows and video of their murder victims.” [link | via]
“A bionic eye that can restore sight to the blind should be commercially available within two years, scientists behind the revolutionary technology announced today.” [link | via]
“THE US wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.” [link | more | via]
“Behind the scenes, the spread of a pathogen that targets wounded GIs has triggered broad reforms in both combat medical care and the Pentagon’s networks for tracking bacterial threats within the ranks. Interviews with current and former military physicians, recent articles in medical journals, and internal reports reveal that the Department of Defense has been waging a secret war within the larger mission in Iraq and Afghanistan – a war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.” [link | via]