I had an idea for "manual overclocking" once. It would be a crank sticking out of the front of a PC that you could turn to overclock your processor when you re

I had an idea for "manual overclocking" once. It would be a crank sticking out of the front of a PC that you could turn to overclock your processor when you really needed it. Mostly it was a therapy for waiting on slow processes. No, I didn't make one, although now I hop on News.YC or some similar site when I have to wait for too long, so there may still be something there. You could adapt that idea here, with the Gilligan's Island concept of "powering" certain tasks. It would be interesting to configure your computer to require you to regularly move your mouse (or finger on your trackpad) to keep the browser window from fading away or to "power" a check of your email. But could you make it annoying enough?