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Show lifd MONDAY • APRIL 2 • 2007 Movie review Webpage review Pandora.com killed the radio star Continued from B1 derstood that music was as complex as DNA ... Well, in the year 2000, someone did. In' 2000, Tim Westergren started the Music Genome Project and eventually Pandora.com. Pandora, com is a Web site that offers free music euphoria. At Pandora.com, you type in the name of a band you like, and it searches its database of music to find bands of similar qualities or similar DNA. Each of the hundreds of thousands of songs at Pandora.com is listened to, and "hand-clicked" through more than 400 musical attributes, including melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, form, lyrics and hundreds of other attributes. After typing in your band and enjoying the music, you have the pleasure to customize that particular station; with each new band you enter, you start a new station. The band you entered becomes the root of that station, and with each song that the Music Genome Project deems similar, you have presidential power to sign it, veto it or even pocket veto it. By giving the song a thumbs-up, you approve it and give Pandora.com the chance to find other songs comparable to the new one you like. By giving the song a thumbs-down, you1 ve kicked it out of the station for good. If you don't do anything, Pandora.com puts it on the back burner and gives the song another chance later. Pandora.com is all about you - the music lover. The Web site allows you to be able to enjoy great music that Nature rules on Planet Earth Discovery channel makes nature awesome again you already know, and it enables you to find new bands that already fit your tastes. UVSC student Jacob Russell, who spends oneto six- hours a day on the site, said, "Pandora.com makes for good sexy time." While Pandora.com is great and easy to use, it has characteristics that can be disappointing. Freshman Stuart Buchanan-Jackson said, "The only I don't like is that you can't specifically play a certain song." Due to copyright laws, the site cannot play a specific song. You're able to type in the song's title and hear songs that are similar - and eventually hear the song you want ~ but never right away. For that reason, Pandora, com was ranked number three behind music paysites iTunes and eMusic on Entertainment Weekly's Best Music Web sites. Another thing that bothers 19-year-old Jessica Hocker is that "it can only skip 10 songs within an hour." It's another copyright stipulation that restricts you from having "radio ADD" and flipping through songs too quickly. But even with these slight imperfections, Pandora.com made the list for Time magazine's "Top 50 Web sites of 2006." That is quite the achievement, today, with the Internet as innovative as ever. BYU student Devin Carroll said, "It is, by far, one of the best ways to discover new bands." So, say goodbye to your FM radio because after listening to the commercial-free and cost free Pandora.com, you will probably never go back. Ty Theobald Life Writer Have you ever wondered what it looks like to see a 10-foot great white shark fly eight feet out of the water with a seal in its mouth ... in slow motion? Now you can, in crystal clear high definition, thanks to the Discovery Channel. Planet Earth seeks to revitalize the nature documentary genre with an epic, 11-part series that spans the globe, top to toe, and showcases some of the most incredible wildlife footage ever caught on tape, let alone in full HD. If you are the type of person who misses watching down-to-earth nature shows on PBS (with no human interference or hosts who wrestle snakes and crocodiles), then Planet Earth is for you. It is simply raw, gorgeous footage showing that nature, alone, is the undisputed master and mother of all art and beauty. The technology used in Planet Earth is ground- Continued from B1 The story is fairly predictable, yet BLADES OF GLORY keeps it fresh, being filled with Ferrell's improvised, hilarious, quick sense of humor. Just as Paul Rudd, Steve Carel! and John C. Reilly did in FerrelPs previous hits {Anchorman and Taliadega Nights), Heder easily holds his own next to the comedic giant. For those Heder fans out there, you'll love seeing him play in the big leagues, and you'll die when see him use the Japanese he learned from serving an LDS mission. Also adding bits of individual humor is an allstar list of brilliant co-stars: Will Arnett (Gob, TV's Arrested Development) and Amy Poehler (SNL) play the brother and sister Tonya Harding rivalry that opposes Chazz and Jimmy's Nancy Kerrigan man-duo in some laugh-out-loud moments. Jenna Fisher (Pam, TV's The Office ) plays their nai've little sister who complicates the story by falling for Jimmy. 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The technology isn't the only thing going into the creation of Planet Earth. According to the Discovery Channel, "more than 70 camera operators spent more than 2,000 days in the field." Producers and film crews took a total of five years — sometimes risking life and limb — to capture the fantastic animals and landscapes in the show. Each episode costs roughly $2 million to make; so, in short, this is the filet mignon of television (high-def or otherwise). Planet Earth boasts several never-before-seen perspectives on nature, including video of extremely rare and endangered animals doing ex- Courtesy Photo/NASA tremely rare and bizarre things. For instance, a segment documenting the rare Birds of Paradise Will absolutely blow your mind with the uncanny shapes and colors they take to attract their mates. Views from several thousand feet invite you to see the curve of the earth, and the wildlife on it, in a whole, new, aweinspiring perspective. 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