ats:
"Monument (If it bleeds, it leads), an installation by Caleb M. Larsen, comments on the media's fixation with tragedy."
[...]
"Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and instructs a ceiling-mounted mechanism built from Legos to drop one yellow BB per person."
It's certainly an interesting way of visualising things -- you can imagine using it to track web hits or something instead.
I think it'd be neater if it moved around and dropped BBs in particular places, though; for this application, you could make it drop BBs on a world map in the appropriate place.
ats: Interesting Wikipedia article of the day.
Did you know Russia has a tradition of open-tuning guitar playing?
(Found while editing articles on the history of Russian rock music...)
Lots more information here.