There was a time in my life when I did not know of Slashdot’s existence. I now divide my life into two periods: pre-Slashdot and post-Slashdot.
There are handful of websites out there that every self-respecting nerd/geek/whatever has to know about. Slashdot is one of them. Digg is another.
The point of this nerdy link-o-rama is that Roommate read about this thing called Pandora on Digg. Pandora is a user-customized radio. Yes, I know Yahoo has a user-customizable radio, but if you’re a real nerd, you’ll always do everything you can to try new technologies. Pandora works by asking you for one band you like, and then it builds off of that one band. For example, to keep things easy, I started with Nirvana. But then it started playing all sorts of crappy, sludge rock bands I don’t like, so I had to temper the Nirvana with Bloc Party, and then Self, and then The Skatalites, and then NoFX. And then the radio started playing music more to my actual tastes.
Moral of the story? Be a nerd. Go to Digg. Listen to Pandora. Find out about new bands.
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boobah...he who shall remain nameless strongly recommends reddit.com as well...he says it's "teh r0x0r5." sigh. how am i going to deal with TWO penis-enabled dweebs in my life? ;)
Posted by tarflet | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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I tried Pandora a couple of weeks ago, but the results weren't that good. I put in quite a few things that I liked, but it kept playing crappy stuff I just don't care about. Maybe I'll have to give it another go.
Posted by rebecca | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
slashdot is a little confusing. they could clean it up and it would be a lot easier to read. digg is much easier to look at. pandora is indeed a Very Good Thing.
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
this is typically not the type of nerd i am. mind you, i am quite nerdy. but i went to slashdot for the very first time and had no idea what was going on. however, pandora is a Very Good Thing... yay!! thanks p-man!
Posted by heatherfeather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16