A la The Lady Pants, a music meme for you. Here’s the rules:

1. Open up the music player on your computer.

2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next twelve songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of twelve songs by four artists, you can if you’d like.

And here’s my list:

• New - No Doubt

• Love Of My Life - Erykah Badu Ft. Common
• Goodies - Ciara Ft. Petey Pablo
• Under Your Spell, Standing (Reprise) - Buffy
• God Only Knows - Beach Boys
• Zombie - Cranberries
• Good - Better Than Ezra
• La Copa De La Vida - Ricky Martin
• The Prime Time of Your Life - Daft Punk
• Fever - Peggy Lee
• Jerk It Out - The Caesars
• Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter

Somehow, I ended up with no Cher on here, and a lot more 90’s alt-rock than I would have thought. Another bit of ephemera for you: Firefox 2’s spell check engine does not recognize the word ‘meme’. A most egregious oversight.

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So there’s an idea floating around whose time has come, and which finally has been given a name: the Temple of Ego. Longtime readers (Hi mom!) will remember a lil’ something I once made called Stalk Jason Rhyley, which was… well, the exact same thing as a Temple of Ego. I’ve never had prior art on something before, and I have to tell you it feels weird.

I decided that it was probably time to bring the auto-stalker up to date and make it pretty, since these days I publish way more content on other sites than I do here — and on so many other sites that it is brain-melting. Thus, I give you Jason Rhyley’s Ego Wall.

Code available on request, but be advised it may be more code than you would expect. I had to fix creaky old Magpie RSS to deal with newer versions of Atom feeds in order to make this work correctly. I know that eventually I’m going to have to give up on magpie, but it is what I know, and I am old and set in my ways.