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Meish.org has created an Album Cover Challenge where you try to name the artist and title for 60 different album covers. Some are easy, some just aren't.

On the heels of the Daily News' article about people who don't have or really want cellphones for their disruptive qualities, the Times takes a look at the cellphone culture on trains. Amtrak, for instance, has a "quiet car" but just because it's called a quiet car doesn't mean the people are meek, as one violater had her cellphone "thrown it against the wall, smash[ed] into pieces" (an Amtrak conductor says the quiet car is self-policing). Metro-North riders are lobbying for their own quiet cars.

The BBC will be releasing a list of the top 100 books as chosen by the British public soon, so the Independent though they'd ask a few British notables what the worst books they've read are. Here are two interesting entries:

Right out of Jayson Blair's (and many others') playbook, the Wall Street Journal gives tips for "white-collar slacking." Jane Spencer's article elegantly sums it up:

MTV proudly jumped the gun in reporting that "bling bling" has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. "Bling bling," originating from Cash Money Millionaire rap artist BG (BG is short for Baby Gangsta!), describes "diamonds, jewelry and all forms of showy style." MTV asked BG for his reaction: " 'Bling bling' will never be forgotten. So it's like I will never be forgotten. I just wish that I'd trademarked it, so I'd never have to work again." But, as a Metafilter reader pointed out, it's not in the dictionary yet. [Via Metafilter]