Need Help Procrastinating

Here are two websites a friend of mine sent to me over this last week. They are pretty cool so I thought I would pass them along. You've already wasted this much time coming to my blog, what's another fifteen minutes right!?

First is the internet radio site called Pandora.com. Pandora was born out of the Music Genome Project which attempts to take the unique musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and singing and vocal harmony - and build associations with other songs based on those criteria. For example I typed in MuteMath, a band who I just discovered and really like, and then Pandora would play one of their songs, and follow it up with songs that are similiar in charecteristics by other artists.

I have really enjoyed this a lot, it's super cool. The only draw back is that you can only listen to a certain number of songs before you have to register. It's still free, and the benefits of registering are great but I haven't registered yet.

Next is liveplasma.com. LivePlasma allows you to see a map of connections for your favorite music artists, movies, directors, and actors. Say you are interested in watching films that have a Darren Aronofsky quality to them. You would simply put in his name and then a map would appear of the films he has done as well as connections to those films that other people might have. Definitely a fun thing to check out.