Think of a song, any song. Hum a few bars. You don’t even have to remember its name or who it’s by… just a distinctive line of lyrics, and you can find it on the internet. Enter the line you remember in quotations in a Google. Its title and artist will pop up with links to the song’s lyrics, music, videos, ring tones, and internet radio stations featuring it.

Speaking of internet radio stations, the coolest one I’ve found is pandora.com About a decade ago, a big group of music lovers came together, took tens of thousands of songs and categorized them along lines of rhythm, complexity of melody, instrumentation, etc, etc. This allows you to create an instant, personalized radio station by putting in one musician you like, and they add to the station, other, similar artists. You like Billie Holiday? Three clicks and you can create “Billie Holiday Radio”, based on her music. There you’d hear Ella Fitzgerald, Etta Jones and Sarah Vaughan. It’s seriously cool. Plus, the advertisements are generally graphics on the webpage; if you’re listening to it like a radio, there’s nothing interrupting your tunes.

Or, say you’d really like to listen to a radio station from a town where you follow the sports team, or the town where you went to high school. Dude, you can totally do that using www.radio-locator.com Formerly out of MIT, radio-locator.com has over 10,000 internet radio stations indexed by location.

Want to see a Nirvana video from 1993 or hear Johnny Cash sing “Pffft You Were Gone”? Proceed directly to /www.youtube.com/ First appearing in February 2005, YouTube is a video sharing website where regular people (mostly nerds and teenagers) post videos. But to watch these videos, you don’t have to be a nerd or register or anything. Just go to the website and search for whatever you’d like to see… from Michael Jackson’s Thriller to the moon landing.

Finally, if you receive an email from the Department of Health advising you not to eat canned pork because of swine flu... Ignore it. It's just Spam. LOL