The Inner Beauty of Spam

A visual artist at the University of California at San Diego has found a use for spam — not the gelatinous meat product, but the kind that clogs up your e-mail inbox with offers of cheap Rolexes and rapid weight loss.

Alex Dragulescu, manager of the university's Experimental Game Lab, makes art out of Internet trash by "recycling" junk e-mail messages into intricate computer art.

Last spring, for his master's thesis in fine art, he created a work called "Pseudocode,"

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