Here's an example of an amusing trend -- folks who are using graphing and charting tools to illustrate popular songs. You may recognize this song on the left as California Dreaming. (Click on each picture to enlarge.)

This site has 140 more songs similarly illustrated, including the great classic from Evita shown below using mapping technology:



Check out the graphs, and see how many you can identify. (Warning: Most are apparently current popular music, which left me feeling old and out of touch when I didn't recognize some of the songs.)

Hat tips: Information Aesthetics and Gawker.com