Jay’s Life

Alison showed me a site today, called Pandora. It’s created by the Music Genome Project. The reason I’m telling you about this site is because of what it can do. You type in the name of your favorite artist or song, and it creates a streaming radio station of songs that match that musical style. Not just genre matching, but instrument usage, similarities in the song structure and mood of the music. I listened all day today. Give it a try yourself.

Link: Pandora

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This article made my day. Maybe Katrina will have shown Bush that the economic impact of loosing entire cities to global climate change events is probably alot worse than ratifying Kyoto.

As the US grapples to contain the devastation wreaked by Katrina, Germany’s Environment Minister, Jürgen Trittin is experiencing a storm of outrage following his suggestion that the US brought the catastrophe on itself.

In an opinion piece in Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper, the environment minister was quick to point the finger of blame, openly chastising Washington for its refusal to sign the long-debated Kyoto treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The American president has closed his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes such as Katrina — in other words, disasters caused by a lack of climate protection measures — can visit on his country,” Trittin wrote.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1699073,00.html