Pandora

Pandora rawks. Check it out. They had this whole music genome project thing, which appears to have resulted in some really fabulous preference-based radio streams. I'd pay for it. That's pretty high praise, from me. Check it out. Now. :)

edit: About the name, they use Pandora in reference to curiosity, and as our current society favors the curious, the legend of the box is no longer brought to mind, instead, we find discovery. Neat, huh?

And just to be more clear: It is a site where you can stream music from a seemingly very well chosen array. What you do is pick an artist or a song and it then takes the elements of that to choose your next song. You can tell Pandora that you like the selection or not or just let it keep playing songs for you. If you tell it that you don't like a song, it stops playing that song and chooses another for you, using the fact that you didn't like that particular song to help make future song decisions for that station. If you tell it you like the song, it will use that information as well, in the end bringing you new music in a fashion tailored to your tastes.

I love it, I've had a dearth of good new music and this is opening my world back up without any headache of wading through gobs of obscure facts. This is just music, just for me.