Terabyte Labs

One thing I like to do with my many hours spent online is search for and discover new music. This isn’t always easy of course; it’s difficult to tell Google what kind of music you like and have it suggest other similar music. That’s where the Music Genome Project comes in.

Since January 2000 a bunch of hard working audiophiles have been compiling a massive list of over 300,000 songs and entered their musical properties into a database. This means you can now discover great new artists similar to the ones you love.

Pandora is a service based on the Music Genome Project. You can enter the name of an artist or song and it will stream a personalised music station of music of the same style. The service is entirely free so make sure you try out.

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I was at a friend of mine’s. We were all there to witness the big event; his house gave the best view from the top of the hill. The event was to take place somewhere over Birmingham that night, we just didn’t know exactly when.

All of us waiting, the tension was mounting when someone shouted look!”. Through the trees at the end of the garden there was a glow. I moved round to get a better look. A small mushroom cloud fireball was rising slowly into the sky. Then came the flash, so blinding that it hurt even with my hands over my eyes. Then a terrible noise as if air was filled with buzzing electricity. I looked back round again and the glow through the trees was getting bigger. The wind was getting stronger. Suddenly everything was blasted away by a hot, fiery wind. Flaming wreckage rained from the sky. Everything was on fire. I looked up, the back part of the house was crumbled away and fire consuming the rest. The last thing I remember was running…

At least that’s what I thought I remembered. When I woke up I was back in Cardiff. I couldn’t possibly have been at my friend’s house. Besides why would they do a nuclear testing over Birmingham? And how would the blast cause so much damage over 100 miles away? Those were some of the questions that made me realise it was just a massively vivid dream. A pretty cool dream though all the same.

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