I posted earlier about Pandora Radio - I like the Ambient stations and regularly listen while doing mundane shit such as the dishes or whatnot via my iPod Touch. I saw a post at Gizmodo that was pumping an iPod app by Ambient Music Maestro Brian Eno called Bloom that allows you to make and interact with an Ambient sound generator by tapping the screen - or not - it'll make Ambient jams without your interaction, too. Ambient jams when I don't have wifi to stream them. Cool! Nailed it for $3.99 and am enjoying immensely!
===>>Adding after original post:
I dislike the way Apple has made it so you cannot use sound apps OTHER THAN THEIR OWN MUSIC PROGRAMS as a background to other activities, such as web surfing or reading via Stanza while listening to something. I can run a playlist via the iPod's built-in Music program and surf to my heart's content (and you can even sorta control it by double-tapping the button - it will bring up a small controller and allow you to adjust volume or skip or whatever), but if I use Pandora or Bloom or whatever it will shut off when you close it to open anything else.
Oh - and if you let Bloom generate it's own music, you can conserve battery by killing the screen via the power button.
