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Best Streaming Radio: Bestmodo Showdown
Turning an online music service into a powerful automated DJ isn’t easy. You can give an algorithm millions of songs and millions of data points, but it’s still not going to have any style. So of all your options — including Google’s new All Access — which streaming radio service is most worth your time? We found out.
What Do You Want From Lyrics Sites?
Seriously, what is the deal with all those janky lyrics sites? You google the lyrics for Random Access Memories and you’re suddenly transported to the early 2000s. It’s sort of surreal. I’m not the first person to mention this by far, and yet the lyrics world just seems to stagnate.
Warning: Don’t Drink And Internet
You don’t drink and drive. That’s a stupid, terrible thing to do, with a simple, understood cause and effect. So why do we keep waking up, wondering how on earth that drunken Facebook message seemed like a good idea, and oh my god, I ordered WHAT over the internet? We’ve outgrown the drunk dial or drunk text. And oh, the chaos we’ve drunkenly stumbled into now.
Did Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki Invent Bitcoin?
It’s hard not to be curious about the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, since he or she basically just stuck around on the internet long enough to introduce Bitcoin/get everyone all riled up and then disappeared. But Ted Nelson, the sociologist who invented the term “hypertext,” thinks he knows who Nakamoto really is, and in this video below he calls out Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.
If Vine Tried To Make A Commercial About Vine Using Vine
Because Twitter wants to force lightning twice with self-imposed limitations on communication, Vine has been awkwardly limited to 6 seconds of video. But what does that 6 seconds mean? Could Vine promote Vine in 6 seconds? Could you explain what Vine is in 6 seconds? Is 6 seconds longer or shorter than you think?
Is Yahoo Buying Tumblr For A Billion?
Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it’s doing, or how it’s going to do it (outside of teenage dream hires). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing a serious Hail Mary: buying Tumblr for $US1,000,000,000. That’s one billion.
