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‘Chord Geometries‘, developed by Dmitri Tymoczko, is a mathematical model to spatially represent the position of individual tones within 3d space. It works best with the ordered progression of chords within classical music. Below is rendered output from the visualization program he developed. It has been fed the opening of Chopin’s E minor prelude:

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This is viscous fluid embedded with magnetic particles engineered by Sachiko Kodama and Minkako Takeno. It is called “protrude flow.”
There’s a great collection of experiments in fluid dynamics (or accidental art) here at the MIT fluid dynamics lab gallery for 2006.

For you science types, may I recommend ‘the Edge‘–the home of the ‘World Question Center.’ It’s a group I’ve very recently become aware of. It’s like a newsletter–a large hypertext document that chronicles social/scientific trends. Each year a topic is presented, and scientists and thinkers are encouraged to respond to the topic in an essay. [...]

Using some clever tricks with stone-age materials, a crazy dude with a lot of building experience has set out to create a stonehenge equivalent. From the video, it doesn’t look like he’s aligning his 19,000 pound blocks up with any sort of astrological considerations.

And on a more serious note:
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Using the power of Google searches, I hope to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity. I’m not debating whether Myspace offers a good system or service, I’m only lamenting the place it has become thanks to its user base. There are good and bad uses for social [...]

I wrote a very broadly-defined paper for an Intro to Cognitive Science Class. It shows the chronological development of competing theories of mind and ends with a series of predictions regarding where I expect the discipline to go. Yes, it does feel weird putting this on the internet.
It’s very likely that his doesn’t interest you. [...]