According to RS Online Ben Folds will release three EPs this year. The first will include a cover of The Cure's In Between Days and an old Folds/Jessee collaboration and is available now through Attacked by Plastic. However, there still seems to be no international release planned for the EP from The Bens.

The nominees for this year's Mercury Award have been announced and I'm personally pleased to see The Thrills and Athlete on the list. Not so sure about The Darkness, though, but so far I'm mainly basing that on their appearance.

If you want to play a weird bug-eatin' game try Butch Mushroom [via B3ta].

The internet seems to bring out the weirdest in people. Take Japan's Dokaka for one, who has recorded a cappela versions of Metallica's Creeping Death and Iron Maiden's The Trooper [via Metafilter], which sound like Bobby McFerrin on crack. I very much doubt something like this would have happened 20 years ago.

Today's gratitude and salutations goes to the second Lasse to sponsor me in the Blogathon. This Lasse runs the weblog 1001 Pixel and is a fellow member of abcbc and big thanks go out to him for pledging money to Doctors without Borders.
If you're thinking of joining the Blogathon you need to sign up right away as tomorrow is the last day they're accepting new participants. So far more than 500 people will be blogging in the Blogathon, so it's turning out to quite an event.