Saturday morning. Lot’s of rain. A huge day of power tools and book case building ahead of me today.

I’m so bummed that Amazon Light had to get rid of their serendipity button. I was having a lot of fun playing with that over the last couple of days. Regardless, it’s still a great app. It’s too bad that the kings over at google put a Cease and Desist order on their blatant google UI. But man for a day there, we saw the best of both worlds colliding into a great app.

Amazon in general has been a lot of fun lately. ‘My Recommendations’ has gotten to a point where it’s frightening how well they know me. Especially for music. I’ve always relied on friends and magazines for music recommendations, lots of tapes and burned CD’s have passed through the mail to enlighten different parties and I’ve always appreciated and will always appreciate the musical dialog between friends. I mean Amazon may be on point with a lot of rec’s but it’s no fun to say, “Wow, Amazon thanks for the hook-up on that rare Middle Eastern Polk Dance Classics reissue, I had no idea that was out yet.” But lately, Amazon’s recommendation have been truly of a different sort. The powerful algorithms that match D.C. punk with 70’s funk and then off the cuff throw in a trip to brazil for serendipity sake – well I’m hooked.

Another app that boasts superior brain power is Synapse. An Mp3 player with a brain. For now they’ve only developed a PC version for download. But I got an email from one of the developers who said they were ‘thinking’ about a version for the Macintosh OS. Let’s hope. Or perhaps Apple will just steal it from them. But a music app that claims to “know what you want and how you want it”?? Sounds enticing.