The Happiness Project is a wonderful concept album created by Charles Spearin (of Broken Social Scene and Do May Say Think fame). Recordings of his family and neighbours are transformed into songs that examine the melody and meaning of ordinary speech in a unique and beautiful way....

Recently Last.fm released a tech demo called Boffin (Slang for a scientist or other smart dude). The open source application gobbles down all your music, matches your songs with data from last.fm and then gives you a nice big tag cloud representing your music library.