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Pandora vs. Last.fm music recommendations

Last.fm and PandoraPandora and Last.fm are both services that purport to recommend music to you based on your musical preferences, but in different ways. Pandora lets you pick a song and then recommends song with similar musical qualities. Last.fm, on the other hand, recommends music based on the preferences of other people who like some of the same music you do. Blogger Steve Krause used both Pandora and Last.fm for a few months and wrote a nice article on the services' differences and similarities and how good they really are at recommending music. Ultimately Krause decided that both services are cool, but found "Last.fm better than Pandora at delivering songs that I liked or at least didn't feel compelled to skip."

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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