Lost in Translation

I'm looking for a full translation of "Nuestro Himno," the new Spanish-language version of The Star-Spangeled Banner (National Anthem). More info:

• Where I heard about it


• Times article (including an mp3 of it)


• Political cartoon


• Reference on author


• Partial translation

Lyrics?

Here's my attempt at a translation, starting with the Chicago Tribune text, using Altavista's Babelfish, and my own brain.

( Our Hymn )

There were a few words that Babelfish didn't translate so I made a stab at them. Anyone know better than I do?

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You put blue102 and I together, and wacky things happen. Take this for example.

Nuestro Himno III

NPR to the rescue! Their translation seems a lot better (that is, both more coherent, and less offensive) than the Chicago Tribune -based one I cobbled together before. The reason for that? There's apparently two mixes of it, one with a rap breakout section, and one without, and the breakout is the controvertial part.

And in case you're curious, Wikipedia has all four verses of the original English, as well as another English translation of the Spanish version, different from the NPR translation.

Azck!

I was thinking about adding someone as a friend, b/c I keep bumping into them on other friends' blogs, but then I realized they had a sponsored+ account. I refuse to have any ad-ers in my friendslist.

ETA: Which means I just removed two people from my friends' list. If it's you, you know why.

I'm #1 (according to #2)

Today I was checking out my blog stats (c/o Blog Explosion) for my other blog, and started browsing through what pages referred people to me. And I saw something shocking and amazing. I'm the number one hit on the phrase "modern science" (without quotes) at both Yahoo and MSN! I'm guessing they must use the same search engine, but still, it's really cool to see. :) Below are a couple partial screen shots - I didn't save the whole screen to save you bandwidth.

Accessable capchtas!

Yay, Blogger's introduced an accessable word verification system, where you can select an audio human-verification tool if you can't use the visual one. Awesome!