Music and Videos

I've been working a lot of hours lately, and I got tired of the music I have on my iPod pretty quickly, so I've been looking around the online services to find some new stuff.  I turned up a few nifty things that I thought worth mentioning.

iTunes opened up a new area of the iTunes store, called iTunes U.  They offer free audio and video recordings of college courses, which I think is just super cool.  So far I've listened to the first few sessions of the MIT algorithms course, the first two lectures in the MIT linear algebra course, the first lecture in an introductory Greek course. 

iTunes radio is still a bit lame.  I check it out every once in a while, but they don't really add content very often.

Pandora is just as cool as ever.  I keep forgetting about it, but the site periodically emails me to remind me it's still there, and the volume is low enough (maybe one email every two months) that I don't get annoyed.  I fired it up today, and found a few new bands on my Nightwish radio station: Elis, Theatre of Tragedy, and Luca Turilli's Dreamquest (their band photo is awesome...)