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With all the hype around social networking and various other Web 2.x phenomena, sometimes I’m reminded that one of the most powerful aspects of the Internet is still the hyperlink. The way it allows you to free-associate your way across the ideascape so often leads me to new places I would have never, ever found in “meatspace”.. so today I was reading the NYT Magazine feature on an artist building his career in Second Life, and a few clicks later I ended up watching this video…

The music in the video is just an evolving electronic synth loop like something from Steve Reich or Brian Eno, but it’s the animation of the evolution that’s whimsical and funny on the surface and weirdly conceptual once you watch it for a while. Even though I know there aren’t real ants inside my computer rearranging the notes as the music plays, and I even understand a bit about the physics of what’s really going on in the computer’s processor, in the end the ants aren’t a bad metaphor for understanding how it all works.

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