Your Fscking Desktop part 4

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Bringing togther the various desktop picture threads...

I needed a new desktop wallpaper on my work computer that could keep me awake. Thusly...

http://static.flickr.com/37/123885251_1657214c91.jpg

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

when i win the lotto, i want the bathroom of my mansion to look like that, with tiles of varying shapes and colors.

― the man from mars won't eat up bars where the tv's on (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

whoa nice! did you do that yourself?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hey so past desktop threads have inspired me to play around with non-Windows shells (on XP), but they all seem to be (let's say) "not for me" -- I can handle the super-twiddly minimalism of a lot of them, but I can't take aesthetics that are looking to make the computer look like something out of a particularly good sci-fi film (or the geekoid possibly anime-related looks of some of them). I'd actually be interested to use a shell that's like aesthetically nice, maybe even kind of print-looking. Are there any shell + style combos that have actually had design people involved in them? If not, what are the chances that a non-techy person with no significant design experience could rig one together?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I should say "non-Explorer shells," I guess.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco -- I've found one litestep theme that's very simple, with not a lot of twiddly bits. Minimal and elegant. I'll link you to it as soon as I get home and find out what it's called.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/medesktop.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

whoa nice! did you do that yourself?

I used the "Box Fitting" applet on Complexification.

Console log and weather map were via GeekTool.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Here it is:
http://www.litestep.net/index.php?section=2&page=4&action=list&listing=thumb&order=title&direction=desc&limit=24&distro=all&type=all

It's the top right theme, and you can make the boxes curvy, too, if you like. Been using it forever.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, litestep

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

what? i like it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://memory-alpha.org/en/images/3/3b/Wesleycrusher2379.JPG
You would.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Litestep is the most developed, looks like. The themes take some digging through, though, lest you end up with some godawful chrome-y "bad-ass" looking thing.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like FLUXBOX in Linux the best.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/47/117528333_fa09cbe3ff.jpg http://static.flickr.com/42/117528332_7894cc8241.jpg

Left and right.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, lovely pictures. Whereabouts is that?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Taken near the Byron Bay Lighthouse, just near the east-most point of Australia.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mine's a tasteless shot of me making out with my replacement Sydney g/f. You guys don't really need to see it tho.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 April 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we do.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

i use fluxbox at home, simple orange to red gradiated background on the one distro, a slightly modified version of 'cleancolor' on the other (looks like dark blue graphpaper). two rxvt terminals, a big one and a small one, green and orange courier on black. gkrellm system monitor thing on the right, xawtv or xmms or mplayer top left for my entertainment needs. no icons, everything done via right click menu. some of the fluxbox mods that people have done look stunning (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php) and i can't start to imagine how they were done but can't help but think all that transparency just makes it harder to see what you're doing.

i hope the boxes on that first screenshot move. 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

(i realise now that i should've written that in the style of an ink polaroid.)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahah yes!

God, it's years since I've read (or tried to write) one of those.

This ink polaroid is my current desktop. As you can see, I really need to tidy up my icons because it's impossible to find any of them quickly. Behind them is a Ffestiniog Railway works train - a single mess van hauled by a First World War diesel - in heavy snow. The driver is walking up the line, because he's worried that the points a quarter-mile ahead will be frozen. Moving the train any closer would make them operate, so he's walking on ahead to check them first.

Next to my monitor, you can see some of the crap that's on my desk - a box of blank CDs, and a tin of travel sweets, which I only bought because I was hoping to bump into a pharmacist I know. If you look really closely, you can just about see the biscuit tin that hides behind the monitor.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/42/124140306_bc7842779a_b.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 6 April 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

A new month demanded a new desktop...

http://static.flickr.com/47/138429239_d8d6f27180.jpg

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

one for the apprentice (UK) fans. why? oh, i dunno. i just like it.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/060505desktop.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

(one day i'll get round to un-FLACing and listening to that PiL concert on the desktop. which has been there since december 11, 2004.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

There's a pretty good FLAC front end for OSX....

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Simon, your battery's about to die.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i kn

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

home never looked this beautiful. it did, however, frequently look this sinister.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/060515desktop.jpg

(it's from the chromasia photoblog, since you ask.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/49/146056352_d9bee885f3.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

I was late to this, but a new month, etc...

http://static.flickr.com/86/274736955_e3dc1441ea.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/06/292/20/TindersticksWaitingForTheM1161391516.jpg

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

nice one noodle.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/g.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Lotsa Macs.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/109/274975239_4d1b6bc769.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Every ILXOR is on a mac!

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis T - i want to hear about your desktop pic.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Every ILXOR is on a mac!"

that's kinda equivalent to when someone comes on the WDYLL threads saying "all the ilxors are so good looking!"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/91/274979639_df72c18456.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

not a mac : (

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/desk.jpg

its my old apartment in chicago.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'd swap my mac for that apartment.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4261/desktopek9.jpg

Railroad bridge, Minneapolis. Taken shortly before its most recent fire. Graffiti found by friend. "Stella" is the name of my recently departed dog.

― Kudos, spaz-boy (Pareene), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

awwwwwwwwwwww

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

jed, I might've taken you up on that at one point. it was a shithole. an enormous, cavernous, sprawling, perfect-for-500pax-parties shithole.

― researching ur life (grady), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

My boring new desktop, I don't like images in the background.

http://modsvsrockers.net/desktop.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i don't like you :(

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 21 October 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://quimby.gnus.org/4ad-pics/ThisMortalCoil.1983-1991.cd.jpg

i'm too lazy to actually take a screenshot. but, that's the background i use and i'm on os x, with the appearance set to graphite, a hidden dock, and nothing on the desktop but a folder named "boekje" from a user on soulseek (i'm downloading 'the glass bead game' by breathless from them) in the top right corner.
oh, and i have an entire 4ad theme going on with my ibook, too. i own sixty albums on 4ad and i use all of the covers for my screensaver.

welcome to my sad, dark little life.

― suicide hotline orgasm (blood bitch), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't realise that would be so big. sorry. i'm o.k. with a mod deleting that if they'd like.

― suicide hotline orgasm (blood bitch), Saturday, 21 October 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Old faithful:

http://static.flickr.com/117/275079420_1c56768d11_o.jpg

― I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in the city hall... (papa november), Saturday, 21 October 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've got this centered on a black background. Windows XP hereabouts.

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/2256/2197thedjpostersbq4.jpg

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Thats really cool! Who is the artist?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis T - i want to hear about your desktop pic.

It's a 1943 photo of NYU students learning how to design camouflage schemes. See http://pruned.blogspot.com/2006/10/camouflage-class.html

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 21 October 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

I changed it last night

Free Image Hosting

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Saturday, 21 October 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6040/deskhc6.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 21 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/rob_brennan/ilx/DesktopOctober2006.jpg

― robster (robster), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

That's really cool! Who is the artist?

It's Justin Bua. He does a lot of really cool expressionistic urban stuff, jazz & hip-hop & all that. They've got prints of his on places like art.com. I've got another one of his prints, Piano Man, on my living room wall. Dis one here:

http://www.justinbua.com/images/newsite/miniPrints/P1.jpg

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/eyeball_kicks/desktop-2.jpg

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 October 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/102/275811917_45f6999b6e_o.jpg

― martha gives letterman the 'lick' (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 October 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

hi jbr!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 22 October 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

― martha gives letterman the 'lick' (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 October 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7393/desktopzav0.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

that's not brett favre

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

its his daddy

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 22 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1020/desktopmy5.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4337/desktop2006fp7.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 22 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I never did manage to finish that game. Mind you, I didn't have a map.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/desktop.jpg

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/treefell/desktipmon.jpg

― treefell (treefell), Monday, 23 October 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

used this one by a ilx regular for a long time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/41088409/

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

very simple, reflecting my current aesthetic obsession:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/061023desktopMA.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

upgrade. this is perfect. i will listen to "plainsong" while gazing at it :)

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/061023desktopMAuse.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/Picture-1.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

How can you have calculator in your dock when you use quicksilver? nerd respect for still using ƒ in folder names tho. xpost

― stet (stet), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

srsly!

kenan stop using suitcase it is horrible! use linotype's free fontexplorer X

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Free, you say?

Yeah, I get Suitcase free from work. It is horrible. The newer version is even worse than the one I'm using.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sleeve-notes.com/etc/oct06.jpg

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Is that Momus?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, its Katerine en Concert!

http://polypheme.hautetfort.com/images/medium_katerine.2.jpg

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/106/277808457_62ba0231bf_b.jpg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Every ILXOR is on ~~a mac~~skype!

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Work Desktop

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=278271652&size=l

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Work Desktop

http://static.flickr.com/85/278271652_ab1e7c4479_b.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh lovely!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

use linotype's free fontexplorer X

You are the art room's new hero, sir.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.billdolson.com/reentryseries/SSM_V1.0/stills/DC-CapT_40.jpg

(more pictures like this here - they're MIRV'ed ICBM tests. (multiple independent reentry vehicles/intercontinental ballistic missiles) Info & video clips here)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

(terrible thumbnails, you can't see the lines on them. just click the small previews on that first page)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

(ok ok, they're digital image manipulations that impersonate missiles, but still, very nice pics, methinks)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 28 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/fsckingdesktop.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 28 October 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

i'm assuming someone, somewhere in these threads has already pointed ILX to the wonders of spacetelescope dot org. but i just found it, so there. this is, apparently, a cluster of ancient stars:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/070524stardesktop1.jpg

i'm set for life with that site.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh but nebulae are the way to go with space pics!

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.capableofanything.com/desktop.jpg

― django, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Shorpy is my nuGod for desktops now.

What I have now:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/512702579_4e7decfeb5.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

oh, cool site!

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

oh man. now i need two lives.

or another computer.

hey! there's one right here! superb.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop_liberty.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

must be time for an update on these?

― Bob Six, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9733/desk1ak0.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/Picture1-1.png

― remy bean, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Xul Solár is so fucking rad.

― remy bean, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://i21.tinypic.com/35bt5w9.png

― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/FsckingDesktop1007.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Can you leave your external drives hooked in like that all the time?

Because if you can do that, I'm going to move my iTunes over.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

you people sure do keep some tidy-ass desktops

― J0hn D., Sunday, 14 October 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/newolddesktop.png

― naus, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/?action=view¤t=Picture1-1.jpg

― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/Picture1-1.jpg

― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/1566507717_414b5eb7b2.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Picture1-11.png

― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://i20.tinypic.com/vo4hnm.png

― libcrypt, Sunday, 14 October 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

My desktop isn't that clean: I just quit Finder before taking the snap.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 14 October 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

wow that's a bit a heavy dual vibe going on there: on the left, the plant world as a destructive force; on the right, the plant world as peaceful and beneficient bringer of enlightenment.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/Picture1.png

― kenan, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2007-09-23%2016.17.37%20-0700/Image-58CE3EEC6A2911DC.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Elvis T's is blowing my mind.

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

My girlfriend would like to know what Remi Bean's is?

― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

worth googling Xul Solár ...I'm curious about his tarot card design

― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

wow that's a bit a heavy dual vibe going on there: on the left, the plant world as a destructive force; on the right, the plant world as peaceful and beneficient bringer of enlightenment.

Interesting. I didn't think of that at all. I put it together as a kind of alien worlds triptych.

― libcrypt, Sunday, 14 October 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/desktop.gif

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 14 October 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

well, if no one else is going to say it...Alex's is really good.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 14 October 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

def awes

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

alex's is BYOOTIFUL

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 14 October 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://img36.picoodle.com/img/img36/9/10/14/f_desktopm_8f87258.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

also use this on occasion

http://img30.picoodle.com/img/img30/9/10/14/f_wdydllm_fec6549.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.galaxyphoto.com/high_res/hst_carina.JPG

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

soz, bit big...

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Pahoeoe_fountain_original.jpg/800px-Pahoeoe_fountain_original.jpg

― V, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

HI DERE WAHT IS AWESOME

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 14 October 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

Elvis T's is blowing my mind

Tungurahua Volcano in Ecuador

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 October 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. thanks for that link!

I was going to use one of these before I saw that:

http://www.crestock.com/blog/photography/13-fantastic-free-wallpaper-images-80.aspx

― StanM, Monday, 15 October 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

That last photo's a gusher all right.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 October 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/1813877306_0aee3695c4_o.jpg

(from http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/01/11-phenomenal-images-of-earth/ )

― StanM, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

If that dude in Hawaii is going to go to the trouble to solve the universe, the least I can do is make the universe my desktop.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/E8.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

universe doesnt quite fit on macintosh desktop

― sunny successor, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Jobs'll get right on that I'm sure.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 November 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop_cap_0711.png

― kenan, Friday, 16 November 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

those flowers look like snow at first glance. pretty.

― sunny successor, Friday, 16 November 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/071119desktop.jpg

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 19 November 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I have made things more matchy between the mac and the PC -- the PC is Alice now, and the Mac is the Hatter.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop_alice.jpg http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop_hatter.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, those gradients and barely contrasted lines really got mangled when I turned them into jpegs!

― kenan, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

what's that icon beside the airport icon????

― stevienixed, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Adium. Chat thing.

― kenan, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

My slantways Alice in Wonderland thing continues. It's all about delirium and connundrum sometimes, ain't it?

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/neon_bunny_white.png

― kenan, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

For a while it was...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/238542495_21bb5b1747.jpg?v=0

but now....

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/28/img_6744_2.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

"it was then that jaz carried you"

― mookieproof, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

xmas in chicago

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/marina_christmas.jpg

― kenan, Friday, 7 December 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

Black background with this in the middle:

http://i12.tinypic.com/6k9q8me.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 7 December 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2092634611_816a1feae5_s.jpg

― whatever, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

blimey that came out small

― whatever, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I've never seen Marina City with Christmas lights.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

how do you get the icon name to go next to the icon rather than below it?

― whatever, Friday, 7 December 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

durr, sorted it.

― whatever, Friday, 7 December 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/?action=view¤t=screenshot.jpg

― Bob Six, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/screenshot.jpg

― Bob Six, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2094073832_26d6dc3f89_o.jpg

― Kerm, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/desktop.jpg

― Mark C, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Secondary work Mac with Leopard & inverse video mode:

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9286/picture1dz2.png

― libcrypt, Friday, 7 December 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^ ok that is awesome

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

new hardware & a new OS demand a new desktop. less whimsical than i usually like, but i figure it's time to get down to business and whatnot

http://xs222.xs.to/xs222/07511/desktop.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 17 December 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

I know it's (probably) for kids, but I love it anyway:

http://www.minuscule-dvd.com/images/wallpapers/4_800.jpg

― StanM, Monday, 17 December 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

( video clarification: http://www.minuscule-dvd.com/videos?id=6 )

― StanM, Monday, 17 December 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/decemberscreen1.jpg

― Bob Six, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

I've been feeling snappy and short-tempered recently, so I thought the buddha of infinite compassion might be a useful reminder to be civil and polite.

― Bob Six, Monday, 17 December 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/2118061855_1c006d26cc_o.png

A new Mac!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 17 December 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/jawz.jpg

― gr8080, Thursday, 20 December 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/2124494786_d3274c9667.jpg

― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 December 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

again!

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/120/screenshothd7.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2462/dtoptimeaz5.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ml_image_103.jpg

― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/riggins2.jpg

Got a new picture of my uncle's neck of the woods in Idaho.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://i25.tinypic.com/ztyxp3.jpg

― gr8080, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

I changed mine to last Saturday's APOD.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2008/writers/peter_king/02/04/Giants/t1_strahanhatNEW.jpg

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1161/desktopgy8.jpg

― M.V., Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/2245540136_45996871e1_b.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:18 (seventeen years ago)

There's no surer way to get work done than the occasional glimpse of Lee Marvin on his way to wreak revenge.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nonchalance.com/banan.jpg

thanks ILM!

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:38 (seventeen years ago)

a++ curtis

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

What movie is that Lee Marvin still from?

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

PC, rabbits.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/rabbits.png

Mac, hats.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/hats.png

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

What movie is that Lee Marvin still from?

Point Blank

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/192/screenshotpc8.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:38 (seventeen years ago)

These days...

http://www.palmpictures.com/KYI_bowery1978_godlis.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 28 February 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

It's a bit busy, but I find myself staring at it all the time anyway: amazing infrared/black&white picture of LA at night

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2336006787&size=large

― StanM, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

(sorry: SF, not LA)

― StanM, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2008/writers/peter_king/02/04/Giants/t1_strahanhatNEW.jpg

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 March 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/21/2267966059_b2a633fdf2_b_7.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

Hey guys I've never done this before! How do I copy image of my desktop?

― nickalicious, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

1. take screenshot (Mac: command-3; if you use a different OS, I dunno)
2. resize it in Photoshop or whatever
3. host it
4. post link

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/bunchoffives/Picture2.jpg

― s. morris, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

my fscking desktops

LOLOLOL OH i kill me.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/fscking.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

kenan do you also post to ilx from command line

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

only if i've broken things really badly otherwise.

― kenan, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:36 (seventeen years ago)

Kenan is the mac just in "verbose boot mode"

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:57 (seventeen years ago)

no i was running fsck. Thing crashed badly on me yesterday, refused to boot anymore, just endless blue screen (of death?). Popped in the leopard dvd, restored from time machine backup. Decided to clean the hard drive in a big way, moved about 40 gigs of shit onto my linux box, which has more than 500 gigs of storage space on it, most of it empty. Took hours just to transfer it all. Anyway, after all that, I thought both machines could probably use a good stiff fscking.

I just bored the shit out of myself, thanks.

― kenan, Monday, 24 March 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11vsFootball.gif

Decided to clean the hard drive in a big way, moved about 40 gigs of shit onto my linux box, which has more than 500 gigs of storage space on it, most of it empty.

have you seen the secret time machine thing that lets you backup to network volumes

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 03:35 (seventeen years ago)

have you seen the secret time machine thing that lets you backup to network volumes

i tried it at work, over an smb connection, and HOWDY it was slow. I guess I can trn it on only at night? Eh, whatever, it's not my job to make sure that machine gets backed up.

Annnyway.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/vadergirl-desktop.png

― kenan, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

thread of feel strange

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

accidentally took the wallpaper pic when I left camera on multiburst

http://i26.tinypic.com/qxtkx3.jpg

― Kerm, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/Picture1-2.jpg

― Z S, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 03:05 (seventeen years ago)

i kinda love kerm's pic. A well-composed, oversaturated-to-th-point-of-looking-stylized picture of nothing. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08152/screenshot150.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 06:23 (seventeen years ago)

big hoos:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Dashiki_1.jpg/300px-Dashiki_1.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

nghhhhhh

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2206/2403392385_38af21166b_b.jpg

― czn, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08154/hungrycaterpillar721.jpg

― tehresa, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

at work

― tehresa, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

someone else's pic i found on flickr:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080424desktop.jpg

actually has a slightly unsettling quality to it that means i'm not sure how long it'll last.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

Looks like the downtown Seattle library.

― musically, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

i've no idea where it is! can't even remember how i found it ... idly hopping about between groups on a work-avoidance mission. i think it's in switzerland somewhere, though i can't remember why i think that.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08184/screenshot708.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 May 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/dtp.jpg

― ENBB, Thursday, 1 May 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/520481273_dd632fb63b_o.jpg

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

View of a Schwarzschild wormhole as would be seen by a free falling observer on a Schwarschild black hole. The region from which the observer originates is on the right. The black hole shadow is a black circle that becomes an annulus once the observer passes through the horizon. The second asymptotic region appears on the middle of the shadow (left). Note that gravitational and kinematical blueshift effects make the second (unreachable) region appear much brighter than the other one.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/FY221c15.png

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

Whoa, those are both great. I need to change my fscking desktop, it's been too long.

― Z S, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

Thanks to a simple but extra cool iTunes visualizer called gaslight, this is what a couple of tracks off the new Portishead look like:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/screenshot2.png

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/Screenshot-1.png

― kenan, Friday, 9 May 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)

Monitor on side is awesome for reading long texts. Need to find more vertical wallpapers, though
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/~stet/img/talldesktop.jpg

― stet, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2294/2493229688_9f7a3b683c_b.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/after-hours_screenshot.png

― kenan, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

Ever thought about getting the shark/man image from After Hours as a tattoo?

― Bob Six, Sunday, 18 May 2008 07:30 (seventeen years ago)

Well I have now!

... no.

― kenan, Sunday, 18 May 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

going through a Cindy Sherman phase, I s'pose.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop-shermanFilmStill92.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/desktop070808.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)

my current desktop is this pic from the 4th:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2648275487_7532f7327d.jpg

― get bent, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 04:20 (seventeen years ago)

-- Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 05:06 (Wednesday, 9 July 2008 05:06) Bookmark Link

We have the same wallpaper!

― hyggeligt, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:13 (seventeen years ago)

standard apod stuff:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/M104b_peris800.jpg

― ledge, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:22 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I spent all day tweaking shit on my desktop (ahem, instead of working on the two projects that just landed in my lap ahem) and am pretty happy w/the results. AFX clip for login, Coltrane at logout, fucked aroundw/some effects, ended up with this:

http://xs329.xs.to/xs329/08304/screenshot292.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 July 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

i have cozen to thank for pointing me in the direction of robert hanson's website.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080725desktop.jpg

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

already bored, invented motivational desktop

http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08305/screenshot534.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 July 2008 07:59 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Featuring the most curious stylings of one Jen Wang.

http://tittysprinkles.net/images/jen-wang_desktop.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:38 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2847364583_5d55ed4a6a.jpg?v=0

the designers republic attempt many years ago at a desktop is still going strong here.

the overload of red used to piss me off, but no longer.

― mark e, Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:43 (seventeen years ago)

stolen from alba's flickr:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080911desktop.jpg

― large hardon collider (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/Toto.jpg

― If you really need a 00's album I'd say go for 'in rainbows'., Thursday, 11 September 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://img.skitch.com/20080930-gfi49h36qcaxspj1kd1rm7dwuh.jpg
(via catsupppppp dude's delicious)

― STINKING CORPSE (cozwn), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

Scrolling down through these, for some reason the one Grimly posted (from Alba's Flickr) kinda freaked my eyes out. Starting from above it, and then clicking and holding the down arrow on the scroll bar. So of course I'm gonna have to post 3 in a row and see if I flip.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080911desktop.jpg
http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080911desktop.jpg
http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080911desktop.jpg

― Z S, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

Uh, hypothesis not supported, carry on.

― Z S, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 22:58 (seventeen years ago)

Work computer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/2902555047_54fc067ae0.jpg

Laptop:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2903396716_c52bd6ae34.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n128/coryloubenhatzel/michaelpagezilla.jpg

― Billy Dods, Friday, 3 October 2008 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

My desktop is articulating the popular... something.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop-beale.jpg

― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.memorygongs.com/desktopinsect.jpg

Insects are so awesome and alien.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/desktop.jpg

― z "R" s (Z S), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

Srsly, so many Mac users on here wtf.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

Got a problem with that?

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:18 (seventeen years ago)

Oh no not at all :) I'll admit I'm a happy XP user but I dont go for the whole Mac vs PC thing... in fact if I had the money I'd love to try out a current Mac system some time.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

this is my desktop at the moment:

http://flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/2811423571/sizes/o/

― Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:41 (seventeen years ago)

Elvis Telecom what is your desktop of four months ago of? Looks a bit Heizer but I'm sure it isn't.

Mine is this:

http://www.hit.ac.il/staff/ShlomoA/Photography/images-archive/new2/StephenShore5th.jpg but one that's been crumpled and torn and scanned by a friend and sent to me at high res.

― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 05:04 (seventeen years ago)

i have the shore book with that on the cover!

― Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (get bent), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 05:14 (seventeen years ago)

what is the book? I love his stuff.

― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 05:35 (seventeen years ago)

Sambo's!?

― crusty but benign (kenan), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 05:38 (seventeen years ago)

Elvis Telecom what is your desktop of four months ago of? Looks a bit Heizer but I'm sure it isn't.

It's a anti-ballistic missile complex in North Dakota. Picture comes straight out of the Library Of Congress.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

what is the book? I love his stuff.

It's from Uncommon Places

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 06:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/2260/92685258ww6.th.jpg

― M.V., Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

um...

― M.V., Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/2260/92685258ww6.jpg

― M.V., Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://subtle.org/chris/work.gif

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 24 October 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

with thanks to RJG for providing the image:

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/081101obamadesk.jpg

this is my work machine (hence shitey windoes); i'm always surprised that other people designing broadsheet pages don't have their monitor vertical.

― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 1 November 2008 12:39 (seventeen years ago)

it woz my desktop wot won it :)

― barracking bammer (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/3004800215_ce82c7b057.jpg

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

My plane ticket home for Xmas is all settled, so I'm thinking about what I'm going to do for 11 days in Houston, and the first thing that comes to mind is to go to the Rothko Chapel again:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/rothko-chapel-desktop-ubuntu.jpg

It's extra cool as wallpaper, because individual windows feel like they are floating in a three-dimensional space.

― a lump of coal for Christmas is sound energy policy (kenan), Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

Kenan, that's awesome. Do you have a super-hi-res version of that or is it the standard-issue GIS one?

― NOW WITH ADDED CAPS (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 9 November 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

It's the gis, jacked up to 1280x1024 and shopped a bit.

http://tittysprinkles.net/images/ilx/Rothko-chapel-02-1280x1024.png

― a lump of coal for Christmas is sound energy policy (kenan), Sunday, 9 November 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

Very kind of you: thank you!

― NOW WITH ADDED CAPS (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Submitted for your approval. The small man in the glasses who... wanted nothing but time.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/bemis-1.jpg

― fiscal liberal (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2008 08:07 (seventeen years ago)

oh burgis!

i just change mine this morning. was a bit of goya's sleep of reason. is now

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/anita.png

(anita from 101 dalmatians)

― koogs, Saturday, 29 November 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/desktop-1.jpg

― Z S, Sunday, 30 November 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://warez.pedrofigueiredo.org/www.geofftech.co.uk/tube/sillymaps/large_geographical_map.gif

― chap, Friday, 5 December 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://i42.tinypic.com/2d77m1w.jpg

― wilter, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

cellpwn pic i took @ olds' place a couple of days ago

― wilter, Sunday, 4 January 2009 03:56 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3395/3234176512_3e27f22467_b.jpg

― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/hipville.jpg

― mose def (kenan), Friday, 30 January 2009 06:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/walking-vs-running.jpg

― mose def (kenan), Monday, 2 February 2009 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

I've had a solid blue desktop for several months now. :(

― Dan I., Monday, 2 February 2009 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Mine's solid black - there's so much stuff on it I don't think that an image would show through anyway.

― snoball, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:59 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3252666155_aa8e5f98b7.jpg

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

i want Z_S and Nath's desktops

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Nath-- I know that picture. But I can't remember who took it now. Help.

― mose def (kenan), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

Mary Ellen Mark. She's like the pretty non-pedophile counterpart of Larry Clark (whom I also like)

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.atelierdekok.com/v2/work/Daguerreotype_Daguerre_Atelier_1837.jpg

on our new pc

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The mood I'm in today:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/george-desktop.jpg

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Friday, 20 February 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, the "Man, I'm cool" mood. Not so much the "starting a still with my own blood" mood.

― Bad Banana On Broadway (kenan), Friday, 20 February 2009 19:54 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3295526765_aeb2484dfa_o.jpg

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

hope i done this right it's been a while

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/3295555129_0182c32bcd_b.jpg

― whatever, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

http://i43.tinypic.com/2uylug2.jpg

― StanM, Sunday, 22 February 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

(source)

― StanM, Sunday, 22 February 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6388/desktopnec.jpg

― James Mitchell, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://xs138.xs.to/xs138/09156/screenshot582.png

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

btw stanm wins i think

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

contacts photo from flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pthibodeau/3421330624/

― not_goodwin, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

I've been unable to choose one so I've been switching like mad between loads of pics from Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza, like these three random examples:

http://www.lapp-pro.de/gallerydata/gallery_2/lapp%2044.jpg

http://www.lapp-pro.de/gallerydata/gallery_2/lapp%2032.jpg

http://www.lapp-pro.de/gallerydata/gallery_3/9164437.jpg

― StanM, Saturday, 11 April 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/desktopapril09.jpg

― Bob Six, Sunday, 12 April 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

http://i41.tinypic.com/140iys8.jpg

― ZS1983 (Z S), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/desktop-redsquares.jpg

― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)

Is this some visual indication of being trapped in a personal hell?

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 07:07 (sixteen years ago)

I think it's a building. Make of it what you will.

― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)

(that line of bricks on the right there looks less than ideal.)

― koogs, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)

You mean that awkward seam? Yeah, looks like there's one every two windows.

― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:16 (sixteen years ago)

Still, come on. Cool picture, you have to admit.

― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:17 (sixteen years ago)

was thinking more from a structural point of view rather than aesthetic - such seams are weaker than overlapping bricks (actually, it makes me think that the picture is a composite)

― koogs, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:31 (sixteen years ago)

Seems like a wall on the outside of a hallway, maybe facing a courtyard (a hellish techno courtyard!), likely with an identical building opposite. Probably not a load-bearing wall. It seems less likely to me that it's a composite photo, because of the shadows and such. Check it out full-size:

http://fluxion23.com/images/wallpaper/png/red-squares.png

― tits akimbo (kenan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:03 (sixteen years ago)

Looks like an expansion joint to me. Probably a steel or concrete framed building, so it's not a load-bearing wall.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

yes, it does look like huge prefabbed sections, built elsewhere and just assembled on site

― koogs, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:27 (sixteen years ago)

What are the nunbers for?

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

Numbers that is!

above the windows

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:37 (sixteen years ago)

Guys what about my cool boat

http://i41.tinypic.com/140iys8.jpg

― ZS1983 (Z S), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

been messing around with geektool. can't get the temp in celsius of the pm/am in caps : /
http://img.skitch.com/20100406-c9gqgkiw1p5ue2ykg2txyj8p27.jpg

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)

or*

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)

what command are you using for that?

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:18 (fifteen years ago)

because if it's just a bash command, like the geektool doc seems to suggest, then just pipe the output through tr "A-Z" "a-z" to convert it all to lowercase

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

for the weather:
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0061&u=f"; | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/[b]//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's///' -e 's/<\/description>//'

for the time:
date '+%I:%M%p'

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)

date '+%I:%M%p' | tr "apm" "APM"

will convert am to AM (i'd prefer 24 hr clock tbh - "+%H:%M")

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:27 (fifteen years ago)

and you need u=c on the end of weather instead of u=f to get centigrade (but i haven't tested that the rest of it parses correctly)

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)

yes, that capital F in the Current Conditions needs to be a C.

the ; after the url gives me a syntax error running directly in bash

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:31 (fifteen years ago)

thx, I think I'll go w/24 hour. and just put up with fahrenheit temp, u=c doesn't seem to work

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)

ah, nice thanks, that worked

no degree sign but I can just put that in as text I guess

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a332/ephender2/desktop_background.jpg

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:06 (fifteen years ago)

currently this at work (seven samurai screen grab):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4399556044_5d904096e3.jpg

and a picture of an oil rig at home, from a friend's flickr stream.

― koogs, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

Lily Allen with a cigarette. (I need to clean up my desktop, though... too much junk out there.)

http://i40.tinypic.com/t5hvy9.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

got it sorted; using bowtie to output current itunes track to the desktop too
http://img.skitch.com/20100406-nputxgihm5prffiddhh52ibxq9.jpg

― etrian odysseus (cozen), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Total eclipse + shadow cone = instant desktop picture. <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100804.html"; rel="nofollow">Astronomy Picture Of The Day</a>, you win this round.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4919257170_5b80444574.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 August 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

thats a great desktop background!

― markers, Monday, 23 August 2010 06:24 (fifteen years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/akadaver/Screenshot2010-08-24at10402AM.png

― Millsner, Monday, 23 August 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

as inspired by bbc2 arts program, Bosch's Garden Of Earthly Delights. there's an enooormous version available from wikipedia and i reckon i can use a different 1280x1024 section of it everyday for a solid month.

um, would be nice to automate this. could do it with imagemagick and bash easily enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

― koogs, Friday, 29 October 2010 17:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://sentense.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/If_a_man_insisted_always_on_being_serious_and_never_allowed_himself_a_bit_of_fun_and_relaxation_he_would_go_mad_or_become_unstable_without_knowing_it-Herodotus-480x360-20100104.png

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:33 (fifteen years ago)

this is my desktop at work where I work on alot of videogame related stuff..

http://www.offworld.com/assets_c/2009/06/edgepixelposter-thumb-620x437-21909.jpg

― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

found some tools to make my windows pc look like a mac....love it
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5198558174_2f9f41b5c7.jpg

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Monday, 22 November 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

guess i shoulda put this here

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7646/desktoprs.png

current work desktop: no icons, just launchy. love it. v soothing.

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 November 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Current work desktop:

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/Afbeelding1.png

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i54.tinypic.com/2nlvacg.png

idk i thought it was a rad quote

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:22 (fourteen years ago)

no icons, rocketdock autohidden, made w/ http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)

at the moment my desktop is the generic nature photo that came preloaded on my computer. i had to reinstall my operating system last week and i haven't come up with a better pic yet.

― cee-lo v. city of new london (get bent), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 04:59 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going to post my new desktop on the "part 5" version of this thread, which I started and so have a certain vested interest in, but also it's been around for almost two years. Sp I mean no offense to anyone.

― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 05:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vOarm.gif

― (eval ' (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 06:17 (fourteen years ago)

thats a great desktop background!

― markers, Monday, August 23, 2010 1:24 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark

― I have access to a gift card (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 06:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/dtop.jpg

― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:30 (fourteen years ago)

what operating system are you running diamonddave? i like it

― shalmaneser (tpp), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:00 (fourteen years ago)

looks like an old Solaris desktop environment. was it CDE?

― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:37 (fourteen years ago)

(yes! http://www.google.com/search?q=CDE+desktop&tbm=isch )

― koogs, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/desktop-1.png

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

^ basically hate this, but it was time for a change. now i'm looking for a new change...

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 11:30 (fourteen years ago)

can you make an animated GIF as a desktop ? that would be RAD

― Latham Green, Friday, 3 June 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)

on linux you can run any of, say, the xscreensaver programs with -root to use them as animated wallpapers, the one showing the atlas with daylight and nighttime was always a favourite.

probably scuppered by compiz these days though (yes, doesn't work on natty / unity)

― koogs, Friday, 3 June 2011 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

I am using Heroin Honeybadger so I guess it won't work

― Latham Green, Friday, 3 June 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

on linux you can run any of, say, the xscreensaver programs with -root to use them as animated wallpapers, the one showing the atlas with daylight and nighttime was always a favourite.

webcollage would be amazing w this

― (eval ' (diamonddave85), Friday, 3 June 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

wound up with this:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Joost-Swarte-model062.gif

it cheers me

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

[frame implied]

― orchestral pygnoeuvres in zee park (contenderizer), Friday, 3 June 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/9xWK8Ft.jpg

i'm a nerd

― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:19 (twelve years ago)

are you running linux?

― markers, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 06:17 (twelve years ago)

no, just rainmeter w/xp (!)

― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 06:55 (twelve years ago)

awesome

― markers, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:16 (twelve years ago)

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