Janelle showed me Pandora.com over the weekend, and it is the coolest thing I've seen online to date. Its even cooler than Google Earth, and that's saying something. What have I learned about myself? Well for starters, I've learned that I like "mild rythmic syncopation." All the music I like across genres seems to have it, but then again according to Wikipedia "Syncopation is used on occasion in many music styles, including classical music, but it is a fundamental constant presence in such styles as ragtime and jazz. In the form of a back beat, syncopation is used in virtually all contemporary popular music." It occurs to me that Pandora probably puts that in most music. Oh well.
One other thing I noticed over the weekend is how much the Firefox extention AdAware kicks ass. The first time I loaded pandora, I didn't even realize there were any ads on it... it wasn't until I opened it internet explorer that I noticed it has a really annoying flash ad right there in the upper right corner. AdAware cuts ads out of webpages before they load! My favorite example is my old yahoo mail account. There got to be a point when I gave up using it because of the annoying ads, but that was before I started using Firefox & AdAware. Check out the comparison below.
I've got to get going, peace out, and word to your respective mothers!
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A post-post note: Dr. Karen is right, I was talking about AdBlock, which stops ads from loading in webpages while using Firefox. AdAware is free software for the PC that protects against spyware. Oops!
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Hey Adam, where can I find it??? I have Adaware for my computer, but the only thing I could find for Firefox as an extension is "Adblock." Is that it???
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