Did you know if you hear a cricket chirp you can get the temperature? They are surprisingly accurate little buggers too. Just count chirps for 17 seconds and add 40 to what you get. (Thanks Discover.) Step into the great outdoors. This piece monitors an accumulating the temperature in cities throughout the world. As the program gathers info, crickets gather in your computer. Soon their mating calls are juxtaposed, the range of weather gets interesting to hear. Sounds a little like a Steve Reich composition, no doubt. The cities names also appear in colors according to their current temperature. Eventually, when you have collected enough bugs in your machine, each city's weather-rhythm is continually updated. The sounds you hear are 8 loops that vary in length according to the recent temperatures. These temperatures are gathered live from an on-line database of about 60,000 weather reports (thanks New York Times). You see when each loop has cycled (cpf, cycles per Farenheit) in the brightening of the vertical stripes. Whereas a black stripe is simply waiting for data (or has just completed it's loop). <img src=http://funkymomma.org/arch/cricket/loops.jpg>