I recently discovered something on the Internet that absolutely blew me away with how terrific it is.

If that sounds a little too "gee whiz," let me explain. There are both good things and bad about the 'net, and some of the bad things are really bad -- hate sites and other sites that allow people whose behavior is well beyond the pale to communicate with each other.

I had heard about Pandora before, and I listened to some of the music when I was visiting my daughter in Seattle and she was playing it on her laptop. I put it out of my mind, but today I was goofing around and I called up Pandora on my own computer. I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but it was more. I thought I would be able to listen to stations that already existed, but it's better than that.

<a href="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pandora.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1505" title="pandora" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/pandora-300x219.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="219" /></a>Since 2000, the founders of Pandora have created something called the <a title="Music Genome Project" href="http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml">Music Genome Project</a>, an attempt to capture the essence of music at the most basic level of all.

I don't know how many thousands of songs are in the Pandora database

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