- Pacman as text adventure (via Nerdcore). It looks like this:
>w You move west. As you move you are eating the food pellet in your way. It tastes delicious. There is a shrieking noise echoing through the maze. You are in a passage leading from west to east. In the EAST you can see some delicious food 4 steps away. There is a crossing to the east 1 step away. In the WEST you can see some delicious food just 1 step away. There is a junction to the west 2 steps away.
Luckily, there’s also a little map.
- The entire new album Sepultura, A-LEX, can be played online (warning: no volume control in the online player; via biotechpunk).
- David Letterman’s “Top 10 things I will actually miss about Bush” (via direkteingabe):
The B-side of the Day (23.1.)
The second post in this little series about relatively unknown Queen songs, this time “I Go Crazy” – » unofficial still-image video here –, B-side of the “Radio Ga Ga” single that was released today 25 years ago, on 23 January 1984.
It contains somewhat funny lyrics with self-references:
I took my baby dancing – to see a heavy band
But I never saw my baby ’til the encore
She had the singer by the hand
[..]
So I ain’t gonna go and see the Rolling Stones no more
I don’t wanna go and see Queen no more no more
Postman, gas man etc. as rivals would still be okay for the narrator, but that she left him for a rock’n’roller?? — See the entire lyrics at LyricWiki.
And if you also want to see the video of the “slightly” better known A-side: This way. Or take the extended version (unofficial video) right away.
Musik-Quiz 44
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Links of the Week (2009/03)
- Spontis’s Top 10 of the most extraordinary female singers (part 1, part 2; German, but with videos).
- Several Simpsons movie references.
- Again phantastic photos at The Big Picture, this time Earth from space.
- How much are a million pennies? Or a trillion? Or…? The MegaPenny Project helps to understand these numbers (to some extent)… (via Bad Astronomy).
The B-side of the Day (17.1.)
A new, irregular series of posts that will of course focus on Queen… (Due to unclear legal issues, I won’t embed the songs here but just link to them – they are only one click away, anyway.)
“Lily Of The Valley” was the B side1 of the Queen single “Now I’m Here” which was released this day 34 years ago, on 17 Jan 19752 – » here’s a “video” with the lyrics. (The “had” at the beginning is from the line “Baby you’ve been had” of the song before – both are blended. Unfortunately I didn’t find a better version (with lyrics) online.)
A and B side together can be heard here, and here’s a live version from late 1974 of “Now I’m Here”.
Opinions on this series (and the song selection) explicitly wanted. 
Photo: clix/sxc