Screensavers: the perfect way to distract yourself from that empty document on your desktop which is supposed to be your essay on factors which contributed to the start of the American Civil War. With hundreds of funny and interesting screensavers now available on the Internet, it’s never been this easy to take yourself to new levels of procrastination goodness.

1. Wikipedia Screen Saver

This one displays a random Wikipedia page every 30 seconds, so you can come across all sorts of interesting bits of trivia whilst you’re away from your desk. And who knows, you might even learn something!

2. World News Screen Saver

This one tracks a range of RSS feeds from news websites across the world and configures them onto a screen saver for you - perfect if you like to keep abreast of current events, but you might end up glued to it for hours on end.

3. Twitter Screen Saver

This screen saver (pictured) is useful for anyone who compulsively checks their Twitter account. It shows different tweets from all over the world and plots them on a globe. Who knows what you might see popping up?

4. Cancer-curing Screen Saver

Who said no good can could come from a screen saver? By downloading it you take part in a distributed computer project which lets the people at Stanford be able to cure cancer by hosting some of their research. Awesome.

5. Clock Screen Saver

Ever feel like time is slipping away from you? This screen saver is a graphic clock which moves as time passes, so you’ll always know what’s happening. And it looks pretty as well!