Category: just for fun

Random 10 tunes

An idea stolen from Bob @ FlackLife, who posts his gems just about every Friday. My take is a bit different, because I’m playing mp3s on Winamp and using Predixis MusicMagic, which creates a playlist of tunes from your collection that are similar to a tune you pick. The song I selected was Wilco’s “War on War,” and here are the first 10 of the random 20 songs that MusicMagic’s formula somehow connected to that tune:

  1. “Take A Walk,” Spoon
  2. “Neighborhood 2 – Laika,” The Arcade Fire
  3. “Hotel California,” Less Than Jake (Eagles cover with a ska flavor)
  4. “I Will Follow,” U2
  5. “Take the Fifth,” Spoon
  6. “Go,” The Replacements
  7. “Sad Song,” Blue States
  8. “Just Desserts,” Chumbawumba
  9. “Plea from a Cat Named Virtue,” The Weakerthans
  10. “Cool’n’Out,” Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

What’s in your playlist? Why not play along and share your own random 10 on your? If you do, please let me know and I’ll post a link from here.

Ms. Dewey: search goddess or time-wasting temptress?

I’ve just discovered the Ms. Dewey search engine (thanks to Gideon Strauss, who calls the site the anti-Google), and I can’t decide whether I like her or not. Ms. Dewey is certainly more entertaining than those other plain vanilla search engine interfaces.

Ms. Dewey, Search Goddess

In the words of Adrants:

She’s saucy, she’s sexy, she even poses provocatively from time to time with a cute little notepad – but beware, like most hot chicks she is chatty as hell and gets a little needy when neglected (along the lines of “Hel-loooo? Type something here!”). Also, sometimes she sings. We don’t get embarrassed often, but we got embarrassed then.

In the end, Ms. Dewey is yet another Internet black hole to suck away your time. Not as highly addictive as the ultrainteractive kung fu remixer (thank goodness), but a nice diversion when you’re needing a break from ignoring all those media queries.

Update: fellow blogger brownpau suggests we see what happens when we ask Ms. Dewey about Janina Gavankar.