It really seems like my iPod is screwing with me by always playing Beck. And I like Beck although less now that he's a Scientologist, but sheesh, I don't want to listen to him constantly. It's like my iPod is fixated on him, almost always front-loading the Beck despite there being thousands of other songs on my pod, and none of my songs are rated so it's not that.

So, I thought I was nuts, but apparently I'm not alone. Pretty much everybody has the same complaint about their Pods if they use one long enough. Although it has less to do with the iPod shuffle function being non-random as the tendency of humans to interpret random events as non-random.