Bashin' bits and takin' names

Well, I'm happily up to my elbows today in the silicon and software wonderland that puts food on the table, and haven't anything particularly deep to say, so I'm going to slack off and dump out a now very out-of-vogue random ten (or twenty or so) and a coupla random links from the history file laid down by one of my Opera browsers 'fore getting back to work.

The software picked the .oggs in the following order today:

1. Sarah McLachlan—Building a Mystery (live)
2. Sarah McLachlan—I Will Remember You
3. Barenaked Ladies—What a Good Boy
4. The Beastie Boys—the Negotiation Limerick File
5. The Beastie Boys—So What'cha Want?
6. U2—Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Tori Amos—Silent All These Years
8. U2—Surrender
9. Daniel Lanois—For the Beauty of Wynona
10. Siouxsie and the Banshees—The Passenger
11. Tom Waits—Goin' Out West
12. Tori Amos—Precious Things
13. Sarah McLachlan—Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (live)
14. Midnight Oil—Star of Hope
15. The Beastie Boys—Alive
16. The Red Hot Chili Peppers—The Power of Equality
17. Midnight Oil—Short Memory
18. Alanis Morissette—Thank You
19. The Tragically Hip—Looking for a Place to Happen
20. The Holly Cole Trio—Downtown

Yeah, yeah, I'm a fossil from the eighties. Dunno what gives with it repeating on artists; still mostly a CD guy, so my .ogg list isn't endless, but I do have a lot more variety in there than the list implies...

Well, okay, I do have lots of McLachlan in there right now—side-effect of the fact that it's one of the things that works best for calming the savage beast that is my ten-week-old son—so that's no wild coincidence. Those other guys just got lucky, I guess. Go fig.

And from the recent links file:

Oh, it gets worse! Church and state were never supposed to be separate! In the original Constitution, the president wasn't elected by the people. He was directly appointed by God during the sacrifice and ritual disembowelment of the Speaker of the House, according the grand traditions of parliamentary godmocracy!

— from Fafblog interviews: THE CONSTITUTION! on Fafblog

... and ...

BASIL EXPOSITION: (on picture phone) Hello, Austin. This is Basil Exposition, Chief of British Intelligence. You're Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, and you're with Agent Mrs. Kensington. The year is 1967, and you're talking on a picture phone.

AUSTIN: We know all that, Exposition.

— from an early script for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

... that script, by the way, is a neat thing. All sorts of odd little bits that got dropped from the final cut. Kinda like a text version director's cut... And of one of the masterpieces of our age, no less.