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The future of Ubuntu Art

cowbellemoo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:47:46 -0800

Ubuntu 8.04's Hardy Heron has recently perched on millions of desktops worldwide, but what does the future look like for the darling of the open source world? Now entering a new 2-year art developent cycle, Ubuntu's continuing quest for "pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty" has begun again in earnest. Bleeding edge desktop effects [youtube, music] are already creeping into the official distribution and the community is eagerly awaiting the new graphical look, promised as a ground-up re-imagination in the next release, Intrepid Ibex. Watch this space.

Wallpaper eye candy

Mitheral — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:08:07 -0800

Social Wallpaper. A community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.

Desktop pictures - Computer wallpaper

hypersloth — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:10:46 -0800

Hi-Res Photos for the Masses! How about that bandwidth?

Neat.

dobbs — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:08:46 -0800

Abnormal Behavior Child's got some interesting things to look at and watch or play with. Site self-describes as "visual poetry". {second link's got flash/sound}

Mandolux - photographic desktop wallpapers

nthdegx — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:04:46 -0800

Mandolux - photographic desktop wallpapers. Just keep hittin' previous.

Desktop Earth 2.0

purephase — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:37:00 -0800

"Desktop Earth 2.0 is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment." The images are fantastic. Oh, and it's free. (See similar - via digg).

hmgovt — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 05:28:48 -0800

Drempels Animated desktop wallpaper software. Floaty nebulous. Nuff said.