Super GEEK, Super GEEK, you're Super GEEKY, yow!
If your band would like to do a "Weird Al" style parody of the Rick James Super Freak song called "Super GEEK", I will add the song to this site, put up a banner for your band and put your band in my top friends!
Get your GEEK ON!
Would you rather type on a keyboard than run in a marathon? If typing and geeky stuff is "your thing", then you should join our folding team at:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Team Name: GEEKS for a CURE
Team ID #84451
Download the Folding software from the Stanford site and run it in the background of you computer. You don't have to do any "work", your computer does it all! It's real EASY! The program sends folded protein data back to Stanford University. This data is used in research for many diseases including Cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and many more.
See how fast your computer is at folding proteins vs. other members of the team! If you got a PS3, those are wicked fast too. It's the first "speed test" I've encountered that made me feel good inside!
Recently Stanford announced that this Folding@home distributed computer project had achieved 1 Petaflop. A petaflop equals one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). If you'd like to imagine this enormous computation capacity, think about calculating a tip on a restaurant bill, now do that for 75,000 different bills, now do that every second, and lastly, imagine everybody on the planet is doing those calculations at the same second- this is a petaflop calculation. Now you see why I say enormous… read more in my blog.
GEEKS for a Cure is now within the Top 1% of all folding teams!!!!
Join the GfaC team NOW and become part of the most POWERFUL computer on the PLANET!!
If you are a gamer with a fast graphics card from nVidia or ATI, you can help the MOST!!
1. You need a graphics card; preferably a 8800 series nvidia card. Requires PCIe 16x slot.
2.Download GPU2 client here: http://folding. stanford. edu/English/DownloadWinOther
3.Download the latest drivers for your new gpu.
4.Turn off any existing cpu folding
5.Run the GPU2 client for team 84451!
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The Folding Team is just ONE idea. You don't have to join that to help our fight! Please leave a comment about any ideas you have for raising money and awareness of health related charity causes.
If a charitable group has made an impact on your life, give them some props here in a comment.
Getting a Charity WIRED!
What would you do?
The game is to come up with the best “technology†strategy for use by ANY charity. But there’s a catch:
It’s got to be FREE and donated stuff doesn’t count! This will probably limit it to Internet related stuff, but some GEEKS are crafty!
The focus should be on advertising and promoting an upcoming event, but if you’re a REAL GEEK, I bet you can give me more than that.
Do I have any players?
I’m really looking for “cookie cutter†uses of technology that ANY charity could adopt. FREE means there are no hurdles to jump and it can be implemented quickly and without displacing anything else.
There is a wide array of different area’s that could be looked at, but I wanted to start with advertising a charity event. Promotion of an event or idea is one of the most universal elements involved with most all Good Causes. I’ve seen events succeed or fail based on the advertising alone. I find that sad and something GEEKS might be able to do something about. What digital elements would you put into place and what would the timeline be?