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So I don't have a music collection on my office computer, and my iPod has been not especially functional for like 2 years, and our firewall locks down suspicious random connections like streaming radio. So I tried Pandora again, but it's still kind of clunky, not very good at getting the music I actually want, nor at letting me skip past the four Sex Pistols hits it keeps trying to foist on me when I say I want punk.

Today I started using Last.fm, and so far it's a whole lot better, for whatever internal reasons, and less irritating to use (they even display the track info in the title bar, which is a small but awesome improvement). I don't know whether broadly-speaking its recommendation system is any better, and I may create an account to find out, but this station I'm listening to now, built off a single band I said I liked, nails the cluster of things around that data point really well. And I should maybe not be surprised, because this is Radio Clash. On pirate satellite.