A couple of sleep-deprived geeks figured out a neat hack: They used a simple Linux command to get their computers to “listen” to various bits of data the computer was generating — from random numbers to the hard-drive activity — and outputted it as audio files. It’s pretty wild-sounding stuff, much like the parrot-like squawk of an old-skool modem. Then they ran a few highly-structured bitmap images through, such as the American flag above. The results are oddly musically tenable: The digital anthem.

(Thanks to Jason Uechi for this one!)