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The Bureau of Communication - Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence. Boil the Frog. Boil the Frog lets you create a playlist of songs that gradually takes you from one music style to another. It's like the proverbial frog in the pot of water. If you heat up the pot slowly enough, the frog will never notice that he's being made into a stew and jump out of the pot. With a Boil the frog playlist you can do the same, but with music. You can generate a playlist that will take the listener from one style of music to the other, without the listener ever noticing that they are being made into a stew.

How does it work? To create a Boil The Frog playlist, just type in the names of two artists and a playlist will be generated that takes you gradually, step by step, from the first artist to the second artist. If you are a logged-in Rdio subscriber you will hear full tracks, otherwise you will hear excerpts. Here are some examples How does it really work?

When a playlist between two artists is created, the graph is used to find the path between the two artists. Who made this? 11 amazing Indie Games you need to play. Drinkify. Stumblers Who Like The magic button — Make Everything OK. Neonflames. Maximum PC. Shape the Hive What are humans, really, but so many bees, buzzing away? That’s the question (we think) asked by Shape The Hive, a visual “experiment in digital collaboration.” In more concrete terms, Shape The Hive is a massive, color-coded hex grid, where anyone can use a sort of virtual kaleidoscope to fill in hexes with distorted images or videos. It’s fun to have a look around, and easy if you’re inclined to participate, so have a look.

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