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18 October 2006

Okay, I'm going bed. But while I'm sleeping... why not post your desktop here, so I can have something nice to look at when I wake up in the morning, hm?

post by: taz at: 17:57 | 52 comments

Here's mine. It was made by a 12-year-old girl in India for her art class.

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posted by taz 18 October | 17:57

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This is the desktop on my office machine.

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 October | 18:03

right now my desktop is boring, but here's an old one from work:
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posted by jonmc 18 October | 18:06

This here is a tiny version of my desktop. It's a photo of the Merrimack River and an old mill building in my hometown of Manchester, NH.

posted by Greg Nog 18 October | 18:06

Courtesy of the NASA APOD.

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posted by Zack_Replica 18 October | 18:09

This is the photo of the nebraska sandhills that i use as my desktop no matter what computer i'm at:

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posted by dersins 18 October | 18:10

It is something I found on the internets.

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posted by cmonkey 18 October | 18:16

I also used this for a while:

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posted by jonmc 18 October | 18:17

My desktop is just a plain blue background. What can i say? I'm boring!

posted by ramix 18 October | 18:17

One of my own photos from my visit to Elizard last weekend:
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posted by matildaben 18 October | 18:19

The Brandywine Bridge in Wilmington, Delaware (I used to live about a quarter mile from it).
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posted by amro 18 October | 18:26

Um. Because I'm a big dork and cheesy romantic, my desktop rotates among a selection of these photos.

posted by mike9322 18 October | 18:27

No kid pics Mike? With a kid as cute as yours, it seems like the obvious choice.

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 October | 18:41

Heh, no, pi, but she adorns my actual desktop, the walls, my nightstands, my dresser, my TV... there is nary a surface in my house that does not have a photo of her.

posted by mike9322 18 October | 18:46

My alternate desktops...
1) Earthlights (caution, big download. slow connection? go here to see what I'm talking about).
2) XEarth.
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[link to xearth website]

posted by Zack_Replica 18 October | 18:46

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This is what's on my laptop here in DC. I honestly don't remember what's on the desktop at home.

posted by BoringPostcards 18 October | 18:50

Heh, no, pi, but she adorns my actual desktop
She's sitting on your desk. LOLZ

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 October | 18:51

I suppose I could change it just for the thread, but at the moment my desktop is NSFW and thus I shall refrain from posting it.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 18 October | 18:51

so tell us about it!!! but not if it's really embarassing

posted by pieisexactlythree 18 October | 18:55

Here's mine

posted by miles 18 October | 18:58

Sharky! Found on the internet. Makes me very happy.

posted by LeeJay 18 October | 18:58

taz, your desktop image was made by a 12 year old? It's gorgeous!

posted by LeeJay 18 October | 19:02

Isn't mine exciting? I love working with a Standard Operating Environment. If you are wondering about the funny shape, I "found" one of those cool monitors that can rotate into portrait mode sitting on a desk not currently occupied and "liberated" it. I use that as the second monitor on my (wide-screen) notebook.

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posted by dg 18 October | 19:07

I've got an old S. Britt coloring page on my desktop.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 18 October | 19:42

Here's mine. That's right, I don't beleive in wallpaper (it's just a waste of perfectly good RAM - all my windows are maximized at all times so it's not like I ever actually see the desktop) or icons (that is what the start menu and quicklaunch is for.)

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posted by Rhomboid 18 October | 19:48

Here's mine...I found it via MadamJujuJive's vox blog.
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posted by dhruva 18 October | 20:14

Thank you Rhomboid!!!!! I thought I would be the only one with a generic desktop. In fact I love nice desktops but they take up so much memory that they crash my machines. In any case, I work in UNIX so I use the desktops provided by them (yeah, you guessed it very racy! -not)

On the other hand, I have a huge map of the nightlights Zack posted just above my computer. Does that count any?

posted by carmina 18 October | 20:27

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This is on my home machine.

posted by initapplette 18 October | 21:10

Here's my work desktop:
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At home it's just a blue screen.

posted by nomis 18 October | 21:13

This is mine, taken by me when I was playing around one evening.

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Full size

posted by Mitheral 18 October | 21:16

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This is mine as of right now. I usually have art as my background. Lately I've had a lot of things from Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley and exploding dog.

posted by LunaticFringe 18 October | 21:27

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I've got a rotating set of pictures that my Mom and I have taken over the past few years. Plus I was messing with Photoshop.

posted by jessamyn 18 October | 21:49

Back in the late 90s there was a guy who drew a bunch of images designed so they would tile seamlessly. There were probably thousands to pick from, but I found a handful that I liked and have been using them ever since. The project was called Propaganda, but it doesn't appear to exist anymore, but I found an archive here.

posted by paulus andronicus 18 October | 22:11

Here's my pouty kiddo. Not actually my current desktop, but I haven't uploaded the new one anywhere.

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I also used this one from Okami recently.

posted by Rock Steady 18 October | 22:11

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This is my wallpaper; a picture I took of a house I passed near Black Mountain. I want to live in that house so bad, so very bad.

posted by mygothlaundry 18 October | 22:22

Rock Steady, that is one beautiful child.

posted by mudpuppie 18 October | 22:27

Here's my desktop. I love National Geographic desktops. They're usually what I use.

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A favorite:

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posted by halonine 18 October | 22:47

I want to live in that house so bad, so very bad.

Tell us that again the next time the river starts rising, mgl...

posted by dersins 18 October | 23:12

Mine's just a black desktop and a (very minimal) GeoShell taskbar. This is an old image, but it looks about the same.

Geoshell users may be interested to know that I use GeoTasks, GeoDateTime, GeoStatPlus (for Ethernet I/O) and GeoTray. Who am I kidding? Not even Geoshell users would be interested.

I like APOD photos, sometimes, but I mostly agree w/Rhomboid about the wasted-RAM/maximized-windows thing. If the window's not maximized, I'm usually not using the computer, and the monitor's turned off.

posted by box 18 October | 23:18

Jet Li somewhat wider than usual, because I can't get my settings to behave.

posted by small_ruminant 19 October | 00:10

Damn, I love halonine's (amongst others). Mine, this week, is this pic with my pup (in the background) hanging out with my parent's pup. Lately, all of my desktopwallpapers involve the kiddo.

posted by ufez 19 October | 00:19

I alternate between a black desktop and personal and not remotely safe for work. Depends on who might walk into the office.

posted by arse_hat 19 October | 00:49

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

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posted by Daniel Charms 19 October | 00:51

hey, I have that comic book! somewhere.

posted by small_ruminant 19 October | 01:00

Good morning, everyone! Well, it's morning where I am, anyway...

taz, your desktop image was made by a 12 year old? It's gorgeous!

Yes, I was amazed by the talent. I just now made a Vox post about this.

posted by taz 19 October | 01:14

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Currently. It's a cute pic anyway, but something about the color (WW2-era film no doubt) and the staging just make me think of some sort of Escher painting.

I have my share of really interesting photos and space shots. Probably my longest-lasting desktop was a full-hemisphere photomontage of Mars from NASA, with the Valles Marineris scratching across it like a bleeding wound.

posted by stilicho 19 October | 01:24

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posted by misteraitch 19 October | 01:27

Wow! That's fantastic, stilicho! Can you send me a full-sized version, or post a link? I think my husband would love this on his laptop.

posted by taz 19 October | 01:28

I couldn't resist:
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Good morning, taz!

posted by deborah 19 October | 02:21

Daniel Charms - I love Death! (Well, that sounds weird, doesn't it?)

posted by amro 19 October | 05:50

Thank you Ufez!

Deborah: Up with Saturn desktops!

Daniel Charms: I love Sandman!

And stilicho: That picture is really good!

posted by halonine 19 October | 08:58

here's mine

posted by auntbunny 19 October | 09:27

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