Jun. 17th, 2011

starlady: Carl's house floating above the fields (always an adventure)
Yes, it's Friday here. :P

from [personal profile] lnhammer: Playing for Change covers "Gimme Shelter". Not only is it an amazing cover, it's the first time I've been able to understand the lyrics.

and 10 most commonly misused English words. It says something about me that a lot of these made me say, "Well of course that word doesn't mean that!" But some are rather fine distinctions.

Via [personal profile] seekingferret, a $10 donation to Oxfam America's Pakistan Floods Relief Fund gets you Versions of Joanna, an album of Joanna Newsom covers by a lot of talented artists. It's really good.

On the topic of disasters, The Big Picture has a set of pictures from Japan's northeast three months after the earthquake and tsunami. (via [personal profile] cofax7)

[personal profile] boundbooks has some info on two pieces of legislation currently before Congress which would, respectively, criminalize streaming copyright content and institute draconian Internet censorship measures. Click here to protest the first bill to your representatives | Click here to protest the second bill to your representatives.

ETA: [personal profile] thingswithwings has a meta post on manpain and a vid on the theme of the same. Go, watch, read.