Today's Voters
Votes due by Sunday, July 17th at 8 PM EST.
Readers, it’s time for SCIENCE! Well, not science per say, but today you are going to be our guinea pigs in an experiment. Our current voting system isn’t the most efficient way to tally votes, and as you’ve seen from various recounts, is often prone to human error. Today we’re going to test out a new system which eliminates our ability to screw things up (with math anyway).
There is a google form embedded below. Just enter a username and each of your corresponding scores and hit submit when you are done. Leave any other comments you have the way you normally would at the bottom (feel free to share your scores too if you are so inclined).
I for one welcome our new automated robot overlords, but we want to know what you think. Any new system is going to have pros and cons, so please let us know in the comments below what you like and don’t like. We will be returning the usual system tomorrow while we evaluate how things went.
Anyway, enough with the science (you monster…anyone?) and on to the music. I’m spending a lot of time working out back-end stuff for today’s experiment, so I’m going to keep the post simple. Tunes are here.
Wow, I can’t believe I am posting this, but it’s culturally and contemporaneously relevant and I’m sure some of you are Potter people- so a couple years back the creative guys over at 
The results are in, and like past groups we had a few blowouts and a few nailbiters. We’ll start with the #3 seed from Miss Cyndi Lauper. “Time After Time” defeats “Bang!” by The Raveonettes, 240.1-198.75. Lauper finished the first round with a 6.80 average, but jumps here to a 7.28– it’s these sorts of momentum gains that will provide much of the excitement in ensuing rounds, so let the games begin. In defeat, “Bang!” goes to the Wall of 10’s with nods from Grant and Janos. By the way, the best part of that magazine cover is neither Cyndi’s bracelets nor the Goonies reference- it’s the picture of Elton John as a child.
Living the Dream 