Rainbow-hued screen of death

In a move that angered many of the company's gay employees, the Microsoft Corporation, publicly perceived as the vanguard institution of the new economy, has taken a major political stand in favor of age-old discrimination.

The Stranger has learned that last month the $37-billion Redmond-based software behemoth quietly withdrew its support for House bill 1515, the anti-gay-discrimination bill currently under consideration by the Washington State legislature, after being pressured by the Evangelical Christian pastor of a suburban megachurch.

Babelsong meme

Ganked here from dragonscholar:

Take the refrain of a well-known song. Put it through Babelfish in the following manner, then post the results in your LJ for people to guess: English -> German, German -> French, French -> Portuguese, Portuguese -> English.

Dude. You have to try this -- not necessarily guess my own, but you do have to do this to your favorite songs. It makes them that much better.

Mine came out relatively intact, it seems. I've erred on the side of "easy to recognize" and picked two classics (er, well, one's a classic and the other is, at least, old) and one very new. This shan't be hard. ( Five...no, three songs. No, wait, make that four. Dammit! )