In my quest for a good Internet radio station to listen to at work, I have finally succeeded.

One of my group members showed us the MSN music site as a source of ideas for the stereo system we're designing. Yes, this site is run by Microsoft, but they're not doing anything objectionable with it, and all I had to give them is my e-mail address, which I figure they probably have by now anyway.

I'm a bad geek in that I can't bring myself to unconditionally hate Microsoft. They're doing a lot of really good usability work nowadays, and putting a lot of money into the usability industry, which is respectable. Also, geeks who hate Microsoft unconditionally tend to piss me off.

Anyway, this site is good for the following reasons:

• It doesn't skip as much as independent net radio stations.

• It hardly has any ads.

• It's got pretty good music categorization, which I am super-picky about. You can tell it "Play me songs that are like this artist, or this album, or this song", and it's pretty good at it.

• It's got lots of obscure music - specifically, obscure music that I like.

• Best of all, it just played "Stonehenge" from This Is Spinal Tap. It's already got me pegged.

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