December 9, 2007...4:00 pm
electric sheep
My husband recently told me of a screen saver that uses the sheep up, sheep down voting system, a form of approval voting. Electric Sheep is a screen saver of true beauty and a knitting must have for this season. Here is a quote from their website.
“When [sic] computers “sleep”, the screen saver comes on and [sic] computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”. The result is a collective “android dream”, an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”
Use the arrow keys to vote whether or not you approve of the screen saver. An up key results in an upward facing sheep in the foreground of your screen saver, while a down key results in a downward facing sheep. The votes upload themselves to the internet.
Happy voting.
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