Radio Garden is a visual interface to the world's radio stations. It opens a Google Earth view of the planet. As you move around and zoom in, it plays the radio stations from the area that you select.
Right now I'm listening to CKRW-FM in Whitehorse, Yukon. They're running a -21 for 21 days contest right now. That brings back memories of the winters in Grande Prairie, Alberta where I lived for a few years.
You can search by country, city, or station if you don't want to browse. Stations are indicated by green dots and there's an information panel that shows you what station you are listening to. (The browsing is a bit tricky because the selection marquee moves opposite to the direction I move my mouse.) You could probably find stations with an app like TuneIn, but this is more fun.
Radio Garden is one of the cooler things I've seen on the internet for a while.
Update: The excellent Recomendo newsletter reports that there are now Radio Garden apps for Android and IOS, with the same functionality as the web site.
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