Something cool to display on my third monitor while I work

In My Humble Opinion
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I have three displays on my desk - two laptops, and a 19" LCD. The LCD is attached to a telescoping mount, so it sort of hovers above my desk. I really don’t use it that often, but it seems like a shame to waste it.

I’m looking for something cool and graphical that I can display on it when it’s not otherwise in use. Something informational and useful, not just a pretty screensaver.

I’ve had a few ideas, but nothing worth bothering with.

Newsmap is my best one so far, but it doesn’t change that often, and is actually kind of hard to read.

A friend suggested a real-time stock market display, but since my working day is generally from 5:00 PM - 2:00 AM, that’s fairly useless.

Any other ideas?

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I think Digg Swarm would be cool to leave up. It shows the submitted articles and how many people are digging those stories in real time. Requires Flash to work.

3

You could run SETI data checks.

4

How about a Matrix sreensaver. :stuck_out_tongue:

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The Electric Sheep screensaver.

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Here’s an unusual one - a visual interpretation of a computer playing chess :eek:

(It’s not a strong program, but the graphics flow…)

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/

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When I’m not using it for other more productive things, I put Audion’s “visualizer” on my third screen.