A few Internet discoveries . . .

First of all, there is new Tragically Hip music to be heard, which is exciting news for me, if no one else. You'll be shocked to know that the new song is about hockey ("The Lonely End of the Rink").

It can be found at msn.com, if you go to music and look around the Sasquatch festival. It's also worth watching the Day 2 highlights so you can see the Neko Case set get hailed out, with people running for cover and protecting themselves under their flags.

Second, I am in love with pandora.com. You type in a song or a band that you like (it works better with bands, I find), and it makes a radio station that plays music with similar qualities. For instance, if I type in Sarah Harmer, it will create a station based on "country influences, bluegrass influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, acoustic sonority, and major key tonality." If you don't like the song, you can skip it (up to 10 skips an hour). And if you hate a song it picks, like when it picked Nickelback as similar to the Tragically Hip, you can click "don't play this song!" and that station will never play that song again. If you really like a song, you tell Pandora and it will pick more songs with the same musical characteristics. It's a lot of fun to hear two artists you'd never connected in your mind before back to back - like They Might be Giants and The Grateful Dead - and say, "Hey, I can imagine them playing some of the same songs." You can make up to 100 stations, so it doesn't take long to find a song you want to hear. It's even better than Sirius, I think.

Third, today's headline in The Onion is the funniest fake news I've seen in a while, and between surfing to the Rick Mercer Report, 22 Minutes, Colbert, Daily Show, The Onion, and The Borowitz Report, plus writing it myself, it's pretty much all I do these days: "Israeli Prime Minister: 'One more suicide bombing and we'll give them whatever they want.'"

Cheers,
John