"I pictured you in the sun . . ."

So, Michael Stipe (of R.E.M. fame, of course) has released an album - or EP, or whatever it's called - of six different covers of Joseph Arthur's In The Sun. Why am I mentioning this? Because this is a charity album - all proceeds go to the In The Sun Foundation, a charity for helping with hurricane reconstruction. And really, it's a beautiful song. (I'm especially fond of the cover Stipe did with Coldplay, but that's just me.)

If you're interested, it's available on iTunes.


And on a completely different note:
"If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal."
A couple of people, actually.