- Walls :
- Sources :
- Capsule Corp :
- Fireball :
- PacMan Tee :
- Tycho's Tee :
- Magic 8Ball :
- Matrix Hack :
- Deathrace 2000 :
- Others :
Wallpaper
I tend to collect wallpaper or desktop backgrounds.
While I liked the Propaganda tiles from Bowie J. Poag, I tend to like unscaled, high contrast, abstract backgrounds with lots of empty space.
Most of the walls I use are images I run across online. As such I won't be putting these online. One thing I learned fairly quickly as a writer was to never, ever, ever attempt to use images you haven't created yourself.
In an article for Maximum Linux (a spinoff of Maximum PC) I included screen shots of lynx and w3m, both text browsers. Since a screen shot of a text browser is about as interesting as drywall, I used eterm. Eterm lets you specify an image to use as the background of the window. For about a year or so I collected a bunch of pics in a folder for the eterm window. For the Windows folks, imagine a cool picture as the background of your dos prompt.
As it turns out, one of the images I used was a cool picture of a woman with a tattoo. At that time I had no idea who she was or where the pics came from. I replaced her tatt with a tux pic in the gimp. Never gaving it a second thought, I submitted the pics with the rest of my article and all was well. The pic showed up in the article, and people in the MaxLinux forums started asking where they could get the pic...
At this point the woman in question came across the pics. Several posts in the forums were followed by email messages and threats of legal action. My editor freaked. my editor's lawyers freaked. I freaked.
To make a long story short, I gave my side of the story to the Max Linux folks and didn't hear anything more. But you can bet your butt I was more careful with source material.
