How many hours of your life did you spend in front of your double-tape-deck boombox, making mixtapes from the radio? These days, I'm rarely tuned in to the radio, so I don't know what's new on the Top 9 at 9, let alone who hosts the show. But when I'm at work, I get the comfort of local and personality- and user-driven radio piped through my headphones all day long via WOXY.com.

WOXY started as a regular FM station in Cincinnati back in 1983, and has since changed hands and broadcasting methods a number of times. But it's never changed its format; it's always been "The Future of Rock and Roll." I can listen to WOXY all day at work and know that somewhere out there, there's a DJ sitting in front of a computer, carefully picking what I'm about to listen to next (and ready to take my requests). None of that lame MP3-player-on-random crap. Plus, they archive their playlists so you can go back and look up that song you heard Tuesday right before your 1:30 meeting but didn't get a chance to jot down. That totally trumps terrestrial radio.