An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

So in my day to day light ramblings, I happened to stumble back across a beloved old friend of mine that I had totally forgotten about over the course of a year or so.  It's the lovely site Pandora.  It's a pretty sweet site.  What it is is a free internet radio site playing music that is more or less catered to what you like to listen to.  Let me explain this in a bit more depth.  You sign up for the site and it asks you to type in the name of a song, artist, whatever that you like listening to.  Now, the first song that starts playing is generally by that group.  From there, you can give the song a thumbs up or a thumbs down, and it will try to offer you other music that has sounds simliar to your interests.   You can also keep adding in the names of songs or artists as you please, so it will grow your musical collection.  And then it just keeps going.

I've hard fairly good luck with it so far.  It seems to be able to guess what I like fairly well.  It can tell I like the happy go lucky songs with the faster beats, and even though I haven't asked them to add the Offspring or the Goo Goo Dolls, they still work their way onto my station.  It's pretty damn good, considering my two bands even remotely close to them that I added was Sum 41 and Blink 182.  Other than that, it's been mostly Disney songs or othe rmusicals.  Note to self:  Remember to add Grease on there...

You can also have more than station on there, which helps if you have a craving for a particular genre of music and don't want to be bothered with the random Weird Al song popping in there while you're listening to Metalica.  Just seems to kind of ruin the mood, know what I mean?  If Pandora had one big flaw, it's that you can't have it just play one particular song whenever you want.  It is a radio afterall, and you never know what will be coming up.  Another flaw in the system:  it's tried to play Kayne West on me twice.  Man, he's a douche.

Seriously though guys, I think you should try it out.  The site is www.pandora.com.  Sign up and rock out with your socks out.  Also, it seemed to actually include the link this time.  Why couldn't you do that for xkcd?  Gosh webs.com, you're being so silly.

Peace Out.