Website 1 - Musicovery
How it works is both elegant and simple. You move the mouse to where you feel your current desired "mood" of music would fall on the grid. The site loads a playlist of music of that mood, ie. the Mood Radio. You can then customise it by whether you want hit music and/or non hit music, and if you are heavily into music from the 80s, or you don't like anything put out after the 50s you can change the range on the timeline. You can also customise the musical genres played, so if you only want to listen to metal, or you love everything except classical there is a setting for that. You can choose to play an artist, and by pressing the play button on the artist name beneath the track you can play another song by that artist, otherwise the playlist continues on with songs of the same mood.
There is also a Dance Radio, where instead of selecting for mood you select by tempo and dance (which I guess is a function of how easy it is to dance to or something? Paint it black by the Rolling Stones is considered Dance +, One headlight by the Wallflowers and 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins count as Dance -).
Generally awesome site for just listening to some music that you like and that is consistent in vibe, which I really like.
Website 2 - Logic puzzles.
I love logic puzzles. I get bored of crosswords (and the spelling is an issue) similar issues with acrostics and ciphers, cryptic crosswords annoy me, word searches are too easy. Sudoku get dull too, they are fun at first, but there is only so much fitting into the boxes I can be bothered with. But logic puzzles I love, I love the word clues, I love ticking the little grids, I love working out how things work together, and what clues exclude what aspects, etc. And this site a) provides a challenge by telling how long the puzzle took and comparing that time with other peoples, and b) easy, online access, no waste of paper. Brilliant.
Now going to do more work.
2 comments:
Oh thank you for the logic puzzle link - they are my faves!!! And so hard to find in book stores :( Now I have a new way :)
You are welcome, I had the same problem - I love them best but they are impossible to find, and when I DO find them I impulse buy them because I know I will never find them again. Now I can do them without spending money, or killing trees, and you can too! :D
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