Via Radosh, the Music Genome Project does a fascinating job of finding obscure music one might like. Enter a song title into Pandora, and the database dissects the song's elements and finds songs with similar elements. I entered "The Laws Have Changed" by The New Pornographers, and got Weird War's "See About Me," a great song by an obscure band I never would've found, and Mates of State's "Ha Ha." The programming did a poorer job of identifying why I like Sleater-Kinney; in response to "Ironclad" it gave me three other Sleater-Kinney songs, a hard-rock mistake, and an obvious Bikini Kill single. But plugging in "Heaven or Las Vegas" gave me the Stars' "Elevator Love Letter"—as well as the poorer choice of Cyndi Lauper. Interesting stuff.

Unrelatedly: Richard Cheese (Mark Davis) lounge version of Nirvana's "Rape Me" and "You Oughta Know." Davis himself seems frustrated by the inherent limitations of his one-joke gig, but the article is worth it for the mortifying interview with his Costanzan parents.