Eurovision 2008

Eurovision begins tonight and my German Yahoo! launch page featured a story on it today. Not that I could read it as it's in German. But, I translated it via babelfish. Here's what it had to say:

Belgrade (AFP) - the annual fight around the European music crown goes today into its hot phase: In the evening first of the two semi-finals Eurovision song Contest is delivered. 19 countries fight in the Serbian capital Belgrade around ten final places on Saturday. Among them also two Grand Prix beginners are with Azerbaijan and San Marino. Previous year winners and hosts Serbia as well as Germany, Spain, France and Great Britain are automatically qualified. For Germany take this time " NO Angels" part. Announcement Millions viewers co-ordinate by telephone or SMS, which groups and singer may be in the final round also thereby. Ten further places are assigned with the second semi-final on Thursday.

Check out Spain, one of the automatic qualifiers, and its winner. Not sure what they were thinking on this one.