Screen Savers
Some cool screen savers I use/have used.
Electric Sheep – Got this one from Dan Melzak. Used it on my laptop for a while. It does take some computing power, but the generated graphics are truly awe-inspiring. Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers ‘sleep’, the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as ‘sheep’. The result is a collective ‘android dream’, an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Surveillance Saver – Got this one from Bruce Schneier’s Blog . Used this on my work computer for a while. I’ve always been intrigued by the voyeuristic and Orwellian nature of web-enabled cameras. It’s also amusing to watch a busy food court in a Norwegian mall while you’re bored at work. SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.
