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Jan 10 / Ozymandias

I Dream of Electric Sheep…

… or at least my PC does. Just a quick post to point you toward the Electric Sheep screensaver. What's sort of cool about this is that you can vote on popular screensavers and have the "genes" of that saver influence future versions. To quote:

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. ***'s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I came across this when looking for good, multi-screen screensavers for Windows. Found some great OS X screensavers while I was at it, but didn't have any luck on the Windows side (specifically, multi-screen). Anyone have any you particularly like?

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  • Losimagic

    I liked this screensaver a lot too, until I realised it was downloading/uploading over 2gb of data every night while I was asleep.  It sends and receives the screensavers that are created on your system I think.  Just a little warning :)

  • http://www.corpnews.com Rasputin

    What’s with the censor-stars on Philip K. ***?

  • Anonymous

    an unfortunate surname under the effects of the post-modern puritanism era

  • http://www.newsatseven.com Nate

    I was always a fan of Mathematically Beautiful ScreenSavers ( http://www.mathsavers.com ).  I have no idea how they work with multi-screen setups though.

  • Anonymous

    Re: "What’s with the censor-stars on Philip K. ***?"

    Good question… must have been in the cut/paste, or something is censoring it? Weird… I’ll go return it to ***.

  • Mark

    That’s ok, just use Philip K. Richard instead!

  • jpbeme

    I use a Matrix screen saver for my work laptop and attached LCD.  I know, the Matrix is "so 90′s".  But it works on multiple monitors.  Check it out here. http://tinyurl.com/zsjq9

  • Anonymous

    Re: "Re: "What’s with the censor-stars on Philip K. ***?"

    Good question… must have been in the cut/paste, or something is censoring it? Weird… I’ll go return it to ***."

    Nope… didn’t work. Looks like d i c k is auto-censored somewhere in community server. Silly.

  • Philip K. ***

    I have to try: Philip K. ***, ***!

  • Anonymous

    We could have hours of entertainment doing this. ;)

  • Anonymous

    djeez… I am so tempted to try to find out all the censored words…. :D

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  • insane_cobra

    Tale of Tales’ Poussiere Sidérale is neat ( download it at the bottom of this page: http://www.taleoftales.com/8/gallery/index.html ). And then there’s The Endless Forest ( http://www.taleoftales.com/TheEndlessForest/index.html ).

  • Josh

    Electric sheep is not compatible with Vista’s Aero. :(