I am the user of the day at Rosetta@Home
Rosetta@Home is the website for a project that uses a screensaver to analyze proteins that could lead to the cures of major diseases, such as cancer. Everyday they feature a different user as their "user of the day". Today I am that user so that is pretty cool. I am always wanting to build up a team of Rosetta@Home users to be on my "Team M.I.A.", but it hasn't quite happened, yet.
Here is a screenshot ...
If you ever join Rosetta@Home, and you download their screensaver, there will be an option (on the website, not the screensaver, I think) to join one of the teams. Please join my Team M.I.A. ...
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=3302
The cool thing about this screensaver is that it is basically harnessing the power of thousands (or more?) computers out there to act like one supercomputer. The more people who use the screensaver, the faster it will get its job done.
I'm such a nerd about Rosetta@Home that I made 2 YouTube videos about it a while back ...
The videos combine clips from M.I.A.'s songs (all of them) with images of her and images/video of the BOINC screensaver ...
