Do you love screensavers? The screensaver programmes linked to on this page are more than your usual mindless rotating patterns that come with Windows.

Electric Sheep

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" The longer you run this screensaver, the more varied the patterns.

BOINC

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.

Click here to see the projects you can run with your BOINC screensaver.