Super Flickr Galaxy

Here's a cool little toy to waste your last hour at work on a Friday evening. It's called Tag Galaxy, and it creates "solar systems" of similar pictures using photo-sharing website Flickr.

Simply type in a keyword and it'll make a planet of pictures, with moons and comets created from related photos orbiting around it.

For example, here is Planet Radiohead (or Planet Telex if you're a Radioheadcase).


(what's the one with the crayons about?)

Have a play on Tag Galaxy.

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Killers + Duran Duran

Here's something I missed while I was in Cannes - Brandon Flowers duetting with Simon Le Bon on Duran Duran classic Planet Earth:



It's quite good, isn't it. Perhaps Brandon looks a little embarassed, and Le Bon is relishing the spotlight a tad too much (was it ever any different?) but wouldn't it be good to see the Killers go "a bit Duran" on their new album? Stuart Price is producing, so it's not entirely out of the question.

You can see the whole performance - with bonus tedious intro! - on youtube (youtube).

In the meantime, I'd love to get to see the Mark Ronson / Duran Duran collaborative gig in Paris next month. Anyone got a spare ticket?

[via Arjan Writes]

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Happy 40th birthday, Kylie

G'day Kylie,

We would like to wish you a very happy 40th birthday. Try not to panic, this does not mean the end of your life. Look at Madonna: She's a full ten years older than you but she's still able to flash her gusset at the entire world every five minutes. You might need to spend some more time on the pelvic floor exercises, but it's good to be flexible as you advance in years. Maybe try some berocca, too. And support pants.

In the meantime, enjoy all the things that being 40 has to offer. You will be able to afford and enjoy bottles of wine that cost more than £10. You no longer need to listen to new music because you already know plenty of music, and it's way better than The Pigeon Detectives. You can spend more time on the toilet and nobody will complain.

And if it all gets too much, remember that age ain't nothin' but the last three letters of sausage.

Best birthday wishes,
All at Discopop Towers^TM

PS It's not all bad. You could be 20 again.

Kylie - Look My Way (TV appearance, 1988

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Oh Bollocks

Woolworths to stop selling CD singles

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Worst album covers of all time!!!!!1

Someone at the NME must be really pleased with themselves, as they have managed to pass off a years-old internet meme as their own original piece of work.

Yes, at least half a decade after someone emailed you the same content in an Excel file, you can gawp at "the worst album covers ever" courtesy of the NME website. And, to give it a fresh twist, you can rate the covers yourself - just like you did on Am I Hot Or Not in 2001.

The NME (which, let's not forget, bills itself as an "agenda-setting music bible") has even stooped so low as to steal the jpegs off the original worst album covers of all time website. The creators of this site also released a spin-off book in 2006, which you can buy here.

To avoid too many suggestions of copyright infringement, the lads at NME have cleverly picked out a few new additions to the list by scanning through the big pile of CDs in their office. Among their suggestions are Prince's Dirty Mind (iconic), Madonna's American Life (a pastiche of Che Guevara), and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium (just some text on a CD cover).

Next week on the NME website: The changing faces of Michael Jackson, a picture gallery.

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NERD video

We first mentioned NERD's new single, Everyone Nose back in January but it's only just lumbering into view over the horizon now.

Given the shoddy production work Pharell and Hugo have turned in for Madonna and Ashlee Simpson lately, this is something of a return to form - a big, bouncy club anthem about women "doing" cocaine with (irony alert!) Lindsay Lohan in the video.

Here you go:

NERD - Everyone Nose

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