I read about this in Word, one of my favorite music magazines from Britain. The guys who started Sleeveface.com took a handful of LP covers and put those covers in a photographable context to create art, a conversation piece, homage to a by-gone era. I checked the site out and really think it's a lot of fun. Here's one of my favorites:

Since the start of my new job, I've been even more obsessed with the Internet than ever before. I now have my job as the excuse for spending hours upon end online because I can atribute it to my career. Well, this is definitely true to a certain extent. Learning about social networking sites and the latest trends and technology is something I need to keep up on but viral videos like the one from "What the hull?" Kelly, below, won't be a big influencer - I hope!

So, about these two new music sites I've discovered... I have to give credit to www.Mashable.com , a blog and social networking site about the latest social networking sites, for turning me on to these.

Firstly, there's www.foxytunes.com and its partner www.foxytunes.com/planet. I'm more intriqued with the planet part than I am the main portal, which allows you to customize a browser-supported media player and more I'm sure. FoxyTunes Planet is great. You can type in any artist you're really into and it will aggregate a bunch of content about that artist all on one page - everything from You Tube videos to Yahoo Lyrics, Amazon reviews, Flickr photos, and any additional widget you'd like to add to that page. It's a great way of learning more about a particular artist, like Cut Copy, a recent discovery of mine. http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/cut_copy

I had been thinking about how great the fact that my ipod Photo - a product that turned into a standard ipod within a few months of it coming out in 2005 - had lasted as long as it had. I had it replaced once under the Apple Care Protection Plan but it essentially had treated me very well. I had no intentions of replacing it whatsoever, despite how attracted I was to the iPod Touch. In fact, I had just bought a new set of Shur headphones to go with it. And then it happened. I left it in the gym in the tray of the elliptical machine. I went back the following morning and it had not been turned into lost and found, which is apparently what usually happens at my gym. I guess old iPods are not so coveted anymore.

So, after a few days of looking at home for it, I decided to start making my decision about my next iPod purchase. I really wanted the iPhone, depsite the ATT partnership. However, I was not willing to pay the few to break my Verizon contract, which doesn't end until September of 2009. So, I decided to get the iPod touch.

What is going on out there with Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google? And did I hear that News Corporation wants to make a bid to get involved in a Google-Yahoo partnership? I'm not sure what to think of all this but I would hope that we can keep the search and internet advertising business as diverse as possible. Here's just some of what The Times has to say:

Bits: How Google Could Keep Yahoo From Microsoft

Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo

Another Difficulty for a Microsoft-Yahoo Marriage: Recruiting

And here on Mashable, you can vote on whether you think Microsoft-Yahoo would be anti-competitive.