Banditry: The idle musings of John B

Someone’s built a website that translates phrases repeatedly into Japanese and back until the phrase stays the same in both languages. So, for a Crazy Friday Competition, I fed in a bunch of lyrics – pretty much all indie/rock stuff from the 1960s through to the 2000s, if that helps – and you have to work out the original, the song and the artist.

Whoever gets the most wins a Babylon Zoo album; whoever gets the second-most wins two Babylon Zoo albums. I’ll post the right answers on Sunday. Post your answers in the comments, along with sarcastic jibes about how the blog has gone downhill.

1) Do you love to love you?
2) At the foot of the toy, he is like a mixture of stuttering children
3) World, died at the western end of the city
4) I turn off the hazard lamps.
5) Also, all girls, to take gold
6) If the nitric acid, he knows the hearts of animals
7) Above, some other girl
8) In this case, if you have difficulty walking
9) Honey, get a lock to lock, it will take time
10) We need to maintain the greenery of the village community
11) I love his shows
12) Line of credit for the toes
13) This is a special fashion show is the result of his recent research on her head
14) Courage, hard core, a little fun
15) How many people, I can see the sense of shame

If anyone gets number 11, I’ll be so in awe that I’ll do pretty much anything they ask of me. If anyone doesn’t get number 10, then the opposite (but I like the way it sounds, very Japanised…)

From CiF:

We managed to add a 5th terminal to Heathrow without too many problems – apart from some lost baggage in the immediate aftermath; which, while tiresome, was hardly a showstopper. Trouble is, with our infinite capacity to see the negative, this was seen as some kind of apocalyptic proof of how useless we are at infrastructure.

The French built a new terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport a couple of years before Heathrow terminal 5. It fell down.

• 'Compare seu QI' is a current trending topic. OK then: slightly enriched uranium is less good than @stephenfry's quiz show #
• RT @Herring1967 I have been overwhelmed with messages of support and commiseration and am ending the day feeling a bit sorry for Brian Logan #
• Maybe my LC piece (live tomorrow AM, waiting-for-not-very-exciting-things fans) on Carr-esque fools versus Hicks-esque Fools was overkill #
• …although I now wish I'd used the fools vs Fools distinction #
• The @charltonbrooker show tonight was remarkable, in that everything reviewed sounded like a slightly-too-implausible reject from TVGoHome #
• 'Best ever TV' poll. Top Gear winning massively, The Wire second. VOTE FOR THE WIRE: http://d2q8l.tk/ please RT #
• Foolish Dr Who fans. By not voting for The Wire, you are letting Jeremy's evil hordes take over the world. That is not what the Dr would do #
• And so to bed, sober. I literally don't remember the last time I went to bed completely sober on a Friday. #
• Alcohol is fun in moderate, and occasionally large, quantities, as long as you don't get addicted #Idvoteforapoliticianwhostatedthistruth #
• Most 'health & safety' restrictions are actually spurious nonsense made up by lazy middle managers #Idvoteforapoliticianwhostatedthistruth #
• Spending decisions shouldn't be democratic as most voters don't understand stats or economics #Idvoteforapoliticianwhostatedthistruth #
• Backstreet gin-shops FTW http://bit.ly/DV1ev #backtothe1760s #
• Just had a Mark Corrigan moment watching American reality TV: "humanity is awful <switch channel> aah, Delia…" #
• Sober Saturday night more dealable with; I've had lots of those. Happy birthdayery @beatniksalad, sorry I can't be there #
• Unrelatedly, Almost Famous and In The Loop are both excellent films. Can't believe it took me nine years to get around to watching AF… #
• Then again, it's only in the last 12 months that I've seen the Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller all the way through #

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What d’you reckon? It’s not quite minimalist enough for my tastes just yet, but I like the way it does all the groovy Web 2.0 stuff, only two years late. I think the text box needs to be narrower and the borders wider… any other suggestions?

OK, so my new entries on this blog are showing up in Google Reader with the correct titles, but with the following body text:

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…which is Bad, and implies Evil People have hacked the site. But I’ve checked all three feeds (I’m using the one at /feed, RSS fans), and all the files are clean.

So:
a) is anyone else seeing the spammy nonsense?
b) what the hell is going on?

Update: thanks Unity. I’ve temporarily solved things (although I haven’t done the detailed clear-out of database tables that’s also required, gulp. TOMORROW). Whilst doing so I’ve accidentally deleted the main theme. I could restore it, but it wasn’t widget-compatible anyway and at least now I’ve got a project for my non-drinking, constructive weekend….