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The Art Project is my favorite Google experiment. You may have heard that the search giant has closed down Google Labs and ended many of the experimental applications that lived within it. However, I recently noticed that despite the formal end of the lab, a number of very cool experiments are still with us.

It's important to note that experiments are just that, experiments. Some of them are rather rough, and Google warns that they may crash or simply disappear if the company decides to shut them down.

Fortunately, the experiments that work within your browser are easy to deactivate if they cause problems. Here's a and here are some of the experiments that are fun to try; a few are even useful.