The Global Consciousness Project, home page, scientific research network studying global consciousness
global-mind.org
Basically it works with various eggs, that are random number generators, essentially a coinflip machine that produces a series of 1's and 0's from static white noise, then when a global event happens, say a big sports event or 9/11 world trade center, when everyones attention is focused they can look at the data to see if there is an allignment.