Innovation

Here's a couple innovative online music radio ideas:

http://www.pandora.com

Called the music genome project (clever), you enter an artist or song that you like, and it creates a station based on that. From there it chooses songs that it thinks you'd like, and even tells you why, lol. You can provide further feedback on whether you liked its choices and it'll adapt.

http://www.musicovery.com/

A focus on discovering music - you can choose two categories, Ambience or Dance, and choose options within there. The neat mapping it provides is cool. You can specify the decades that you'd want the radio to play from, or just choose the genre from the bottom of the "remote" there. Neat things include specifying mood (energetic, calm, positive, or dark) and increasing or decreasing desired tempo.

Enjoy ;)

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Pure and Simple

There's a reason I like endurance sports like running or cycling - the simplicity and purity of the aim. I can momentarily leave the complications of my life and pour all of myself into this one thing. Its tiring, there's times when you want to quit - but there's unfettered freedom in willing one thing.

Danish philosopher/theologian Søren Kierkegaard wrote a book called "Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing." I so easily complicate my spiritual life into a list of a thousand things to do and a thousand things to learn. Motives begin to convolute and often corrupt. I have been reminded by God - that as a Christian I am to will one thing: to know and love God more.

I think when I learn to view all the aspects and areas of my life I can enjoy that same freedom of pouring all of oneself into biking 40km for example. The freedom of living for a single aim, indeed, purity of heart is to will one thing.

The full text is available online here [religion-online.org]

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