Infuriating Desktop Wallpaper

My favorite desktop wallpapers are pictures of nature that contain no trace of human activity. The following 5 wallpapers from InterfaceLIFT.com are all very close to perfect, but because of a single baffling choice by the photographer, are infuriating.

(Each of the following thumbnails link to that wallpaper's page where you can select a large version appropriate to your monitor's resolution).







The baffling choice is obviously giving the water that fluffed / smoothed / "silky" look. At first I thought it was a Photoshop effect, but from a comment from the photographer, Chris Gin, it is apparently from using a multi-stop camera. This effect is pretty common in desktop wallpapers, so I guess a lot of people like it, but man I hate it. The 5th wallpaper above, the one of the waterfall, would probably be one of my 5 all-time favorite desktop wallpapers if not not for the effect, but as it is it's probably my least favorite simply because of how awesome it could have been.

An awesome clip from last night's The Daily Show

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - GOP Govs at Odds

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Important Things With Demetri Martin

Funny Political News
Joke of the Day

Arrested Development: The Movie

There have been rumors and speculation for years now, but now it's finally official:

"Arrested Development" Movie "Going Ahead"

And according to a story just posted on The A.V. Club RSS feed, Michael Cera has signed on as well:

Holy. Shit. Michael Cera finally on board for Arrested Development movie

Holy shit indeed.

Pander-off

A google search for "Pander-off" currently gets only 612 matches. That seems ridiculously low.

Daniel Gilbert At TED

Last month TED released a video of Daniel Gilbert speaking at TED in 2005. Here's the video:



And here's the video of him speaking at TED in 2004 that's been available for a while:

This has to be a joke, right?

From the Ask Our Experts section of the January 2009 issue of Consumer Reports:

I've read you should chew aspirin at the first sign of chest pain to stop a heart attack, but I hate the taste of aspirin. Couldn't I swallow a tablet?
Richard Gilbert Halifax, Nova Scotia

Chew a 325-milligram aspirin (or four 81-mg pills) no matter how bad it tastes. Chewing is the fastest way to get the aspirin into your bloodstream, where it can prevent blood clots. Should you have hest pain or suffer a heart attack, first call 911, then chew the aspirin.

Something for fans of The Office, poetry, holidays, or humor.

A couple weeks ago on Dunder Mifflin Infinity, each branch had the task of coming up with a holiday theme party. My branch, Ypsilanti, came up with an awesomely bad party that is told in an awesomely good poem along with awesome pictures. If you're a fan of The Office, poetry, holidays, or humor, then I think you'll enjoy this. Here's just the beginning of it:



All the finalists' parties, along with voting buttons so you can vote for your favorite party (the deadline to vote is January 8 at 3 PM ET), can be found here:



ETA (2009-01-08): We won!!!

Posted by DMIHumanResources on January 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM:

Official congratulations to Ypsilanti who is the winner of the Holiday Theme Party task! They had twice as many votes as the runner-up so it's apparent how many of you loved the originality of their "'Twas The Night Before Christmahanukwanzakah" party.

Thanks to everyone who voted for us!