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TeMPOraL on Aug 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain

White noise hurt my ears, but I found pink noise working great and not disturbing. I could listen to it for an hour; at one point my imagination starts treating it as a sound of sea waves on a beach.

Benjo on Aug 12, 2011 [–]

Yes, I like nature sounding noises like beach or wind.

http://simplynoise.com/ has decent brown noise.

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