Here's What's Awesome: Music From Pi, Power From Cheese

TGIHWA! Being Friday, I'm sure you know that means "Thank goodness it's Here's What's Awesome," and we've got another roundup of links that will have you saying TG for sure:

Behold the power of cheese, indeed
When I first mentioned chicken power, I didn't expect to make the use of really unusual energy sources a regular part of this column. But then last week we found out about trees generating energy. And this week, it's... cheese? Yes, the "power of cheese" is more than a marketing slogan after all. Kraft will be taking the used whey from some of its cheese plants and turning it into biogas, which can be used to power thousands of homes. I'm almost afraid of what power source we'll discover for next week - maybe Huey Lewis's "Power of Love" is more than a song, too. [CleanTechnica]

Revolution 3.14159265
A very mathy friend of mine once designed her bathroom tile pattern on the Fibonacci sequence. The first time I saw the pattern I was so mesmerized that I momentarily forgot why I'd gone in the bathroom in the first place. Had this friend been a musician instead of a sculptor, I suspect she might have developed something like Paul Slocum's Pi House Generator, which generates house music based on the ever-changing irrational number pi. As the computer calculates more and more of pi's digits, the elements of the music change - not hugely, but enough to keep you interested (and maybe to keep you dancing.) NoiseAddicts has a sample of the music here; I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone takes that music and adding in the voices of Pi reciters to the beat. [Noise Addicts]

Cars and trucks and things that go on rails and roads
It's a bus! It's a train! It's the Blade Runner, a British prototype for a mass transit vehicle that can use railways whenever possible, but can hit the highway when rails don't reach the destination. [Plenty]

Now it's your turn. What ideas, inventions or installations have caught your eye this week? Share a link or two in the comments. I'll be here listening to the Pi music while you do.

(Photo by ulterior epicure)