Donate Your Spare CPU Cycles
Do you leave your computer on all the time? Then you might want to consider donating some of your spare CPU time to a worthy project like World Community Grid. This project, like SETI@home (a UC Berkeley Project) and Folding@home (a stanfurd project, which also runs on the PS3), uses your computer to perform complex calculations on large datasets. World Community Grid has projects that will help fight cancer, AIDS, and Muscular Dystrophy. After downloading and installing some software, the servers at these projects will send a small amount of data to your computer and ask it to perform some calculations on the data when its not doing anything like when your screensaver comes on. When your computer is done, the results are sent back to the project servers. It takes no effort on your part and you get to tell your friends that your computer is part of a distributed super-computer, okay so maybe its not something you’ll tattoo to your forehead, but its still a worthy cause.