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Others, not so much.

Basically, the press conference day is crowded and noisy and pointless. Even worse, they play irritating techno music at you for what seems like hours.

To be honest, I didn't give it much of a chance. I mean, especially after Jim <a href="http://www.thielaudio.com/">Thiel</a>'s captivating presentation on the new CS3.7, the Philips press conference seemed like so much noise and swirling lights and fake boobs.

It's amazing.

Through a process that R. Luke Dubois has dubbed "time-lapse phongraphy," you can listen to all of <I>Billboard</I>'s number one singles since 1958. Playing a "spectral average" of each piece, lasting one second for each week it charted, the 857 songs create a spacey collage.

Not the you're thinking about, but one that explains how animals run, fly, and swim.

It starts to rain: Do you run or walk?