Never bet someone (especially cousinJas) about the alcohol percentage of regular Budweiser, unless of course you are the one tricking someone else to make the bet.  The content is 5.0%.  And whatever you do, don’t bet the purchase of a dinner.

Recently I’ve signed up for a last.fm account. Basically last.fm is a service that tracks my music listening trends on my computer and ipod. Based on this data last.fm then not only suggests similar artists to listen to, but also shows me links to the last.fm accounts of other members with similar tastes/trends in music listening. In theory I like this aspect of social networking, but I’ve not used the service long enough to take advantage of the social aspects yet, merely the suggested music parts, and the dynamically created internet radio stations based on my listening trends.

Turns out that there are a few other social/musical networking sites that are in a nice little race to create a large enough userbase to sell themselves to big-time companies such as yahoo, microsoft, google… etc.

so give Mog or iLike (or iJigg just for new music) a try as well

Man, is my commenting/suggesting websites I sort of like, or at least like the concept of similar to someone wearing clothing with large logos of the company that makes the clothing? I’m wasting my webspace by promoting other webspaces? (hmm… I think that analogy is a bit weak.)

More interesting to the calvert set of folks are some book catalogue and networking sites. Like last.fm lists of the books you own can be created and shared on the internet. Shelfari and LibraryThing for specifically books and Listal for all sorts of media. Truth be told, as I type this, I’ve not done more that look at each of these site’s main pages. They might actually suck. They might fold later down the road due to lack of use. Your favorite might be so merely for user interface. I think I like Listal, but that’s just the effectiveness of the marketing on its homepage that’s making me think that.

here’s someone else’s brief overview of these book sites