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I don't exactly know if this belongs here, but it is one of the finer things out on the internet.

If you haven't heard of it, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Pandora.com

It is an internet radio station that you can program just by entering either a favorite artist or song. The nice people who run this website have created something called the "Music Genome" which is a data base of recorded music that makes it possible to play the music you'll like based on what you request.

You can create any number of stations for yourself and each station can have more than one artist or song as a seed. As the station plays, you can tweak it. If it plays a song you don't like, you can give it the thumbs down. It won't play that song again and it will shy away from other songs that are too much like it. Conversely, songs that you like, you can give a thumbs up to.

It's great for me because it will play music from artists I've never heard of who I'm a big fan of now.

I have a Louis Jordan/Fats Waller station that is my favorite. I have a Leon Redbone station I like too. When I feel like some good Rock, it's Van Morrison or Creedence Radio.

Check it out, it's great.