The next album you purchase

Monday 02.23.2009 01:35AM

Should definitely be:

album cover

* Not a real album. Unfortunately. Instructions to make your own are below.

I like to imagine that PSEUDOGALTARA is a metal band that went electronica. Pronounce the name out loud in a low guttural voice. They had a lot of trolls on the internet and decided to write an entire album about them. The music is really bubble-gum pop – appealing to teenyboppers – hence the color scheme. They have not totally lost their badassed-...ery, though, hence the robot with huge guns. It's the best of all worlds, really.

The meme:

  • Go to Wikipedia and hit “random.” The first random Wikipedia article that comes up is the name of your band.
  • Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations.” The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page will be the title of your first album.
  • Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days.” The third picture in the top row, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
  • Use Photoshop or a similar program to put it all together.
  • Post the results to your preferred online outlet with this text in the “caption” or “comment”.

The information:

  • Pseudogaltara is a genus of moth.
  • The original photo
  • The quote: “There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.” – Emile Chartier

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First-time-in-history meme

Tuesday 04.04.2006 06:39PM

There's a first-time-in-historythis-century event coming up in a little over 5 hours that you might not have been aware of.

At the tone, the time will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06.

Yep, at 1:02 (and 3 seconds!) the time will be “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6”. I never would have realized this on my own, so thanks goes to Wired for the heads up.

So I figured – what the heck, I'd try to start a silly meme (a practice, or idea that spreads, basically). Take a picture at or around 1:02:03 to commemorate this historic occasion, then upload it to flickr and tag it “thetimeis123456”. Then view the tag stream of images. Be creative with your picture(s).

Technically it will happen again, at 1:02 (and 3 seconds!) in the afternoon (if you don't use the 24 hour clock). So I guess you can get away with taking the picture then, if that works better for you.

Tell your friends! Repost! Etcetera!

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