Folding Proteins: Someone's Idea of Having Fun?

Join us, and soon no protein will be left unfolded!

For those of you who don't know, protein folding is to some people what drinking beer and playing video games is to me. Who are these strange, most likely mole-like people and where do they live? Who knows. But we do know that by their powers combined, they have created the largest distributed computing network in the world through the Folding@home project.

In an attempt to use the human brain's natural 3d puzzle solving skills to improving folding algorithms, researchers from the University of Washington (boo ya!) have released a "game" called Foldit. Now you too can use all of your extra spare time to participate in Science's favorite hobby. You know you don't have anything better to do.

The Best Videogames of the Year by Far

Forget about GTA IV or Halo 3 or Rock Band or any of these other so-called 'blockbuster' games that came out in the past year. For those in the know, the real hot shit was the post-cyberpocalypic masterpiece, "Charles Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden" which, among other things, featured the best remix of "Space Jam" (and possibly any song) ever! The creators of this work of art, Tales of Game's, have just released another game, "The Sewer Goblet: The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby". I have yet to play it, but with a name like that, it had better be awesome.