iPod with a brain?

I just read and enjoyed this article from the NY Times about people who are convinced that the Shuffle mode on iPods isn't really random. So tonight I used Shuffle for the first time, and out of around 3,000 or so songs, which one came up as the very first song? None other than the first dance from our wedding ("When You Say Nothing At All" by Alison Krauss)! Then just a few songs later, there was one by Garbage...one of whose members lived across the street from Gretchen's parents (even though he moved, to this day we still sometimes call it "the Garbage house" even though we know the current family much better than we knew the Garbage dude). Now there's a techno song playing...and we live near Germany, the home of techno music. (Not only that, but it's a song by Dave202, and we just got an email from our friend Dave who works in DC...with area code 202.) Coincidence? I'm not so sure...