An overwhelming amount of time, your processor sits idle or consumes roughly 5-10% of its maximum computing power. Put those idle cycles to use for helping cancer research with Folding@Home. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which utilizes your unused processing power to simulate protein folding which, in turn, is being used for cancer...

A Google site (outside of their search engine) with lots of excellent information for relevant questions is Google Answers (http://answers.google.com). On Google Answers, you can ask and get answers to all questions from “what is the name of the song in this commercial?” to “what kind of engine do they put in this tank?”. What makes...

Odds are you have probably run across Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) already, but if you have not, jump on the bandwagon. Wikipedia is a completely user maintained (aka Web 2.0) website where the community updates and adds new information. You can find virtually anything from historical events to old TV series on the site in, usually, great detail. A lot...