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"my right side's jealousy issues are well founded." RFS, Philadelphia, PA, USA

"Just a beautiful piece of NYC accidental art I stumbled onto." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"An old one of a shot I took while out in San Diego some years ago. Great times." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"My user privileges on my mac have been messed up for a while and I am stuck with this standard Aurora mac desktop. Can't wait to figure out how to fix this thing. Either that or I'm throwing out the computer." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"Flies on a salt pile in a market in Tel Aviv. When the vendor saw me taking the picture, he shooed the flies and me away simultaneously."JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA 1/13/09

"my amazingly interesting work desktop" GR, NYC, NY, USA

"I change it several times a week typically." NB, Brooklyn, NY, USA

"I love that the icon for Reason is highlighted accidentally. I guess this one decided on its own title." JR, Brooklyn, NY, USA - 12.03.08

I haven't posted any of my own in a while, and I will batch them all now with dates.

"Xevier Gallego Eyesorized my life." RFS, New York City, NY, USA

"feel the intensity..." AM, USA

Internet cafe. Santa Ana, Costa Rica

"This is my development desktop at work. Linux desktop= Fedora 11." AR

"so i cleaned up my home desktop, changed the image, and thought i should debut it here before it becomes a total mess again. the image is of bottles of wine being stored in a vineyard outside of pamplona, spain. it kind of makes me uncomfortable having a desktop this clean."
FM, Pamplona, Spain

SUNY Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn, USA

"This picture has so many things so very wrong with it, its beautiful!
My boyfriend and I share a computer, and he wants me to change it. Its
been like 2 weeks, and I haven't yet."
-L, Portland OR, USA

"Donkey on the way to Mount Blanc
Donkeys...they make me smile (even if they are dismissive French donkeys...I told him I was Canadian and he still didn't get up). PS I think he is just fat, nothing more, nothing less."
DA, Atlanta, USA

"I change my background almost weekly, I get bored easily. Even though I don't support Peta (I'm a vegetarian, I just disagree with much of what they do) I enjoyed this picture."
HB, Portland, USA

"I like to wake up and see people dancing. This shot is from the World Disco Championships of 1979."
TS

"i love spending my work day with the most famous faces of the 70's... it gives everything that creepy "disco-halston-54-warhol-glamour..." "

RDL in NYC

"The background is from the '79 Soviet flick Stalker. Which, despite being 3 hours long, and admittedly slow, is easily the greatest movie ever. The picture's just cool, though I can't take credit for it.
And while the desktop itself might be admirably spotless, except for those few drives, it in no way mirrors the chaos of my old computer's (PC) desktop. I expect this one to become just as ridiculous in a few weeks."
KC, USA

Clinton Hill Business Services Center, Brooklyn

PIJC, Costa Rica

Internet Cafe, Bocas Del Toro, Panama

"Work computer. Thats the delivery truck with some of the great imagery we use with our new company, Nika. Its an amazing company with an amazing cause. We are a 100% non-profit bottled water company, donating all of our profits to water crisis and poverty alleviation efforts in Africa, Asia, Mexico and elsewhere. We are also the most eco-friendly bottled water company on the planet and the only bottled water company certified carbon neutral by the Carbon Fund. Its also super tasty! You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and NikaWater.org." JM -San Diego, CA

"Home computer. Thats the Ben Franklin Bridge connecting South Jersey to Philly. The view is from the Philly side right near my buddy's apt. where I spent most of my time on that side of the water. You can also see the edge of the Susquehana Bank Center (Tweeter Center for you old schoolers... E Center for you real way-back kids) in the bottom right corner where many great times were had. I recently moved out to San Diego, so this is the image that most reminds me of where I'm from and who I am-right between those 2 places." JM -San Diego, CA

"Sheets on my bed from when I was staying in Hong Kong. Pretty rad. My life is hectic right now, and thus my desktop is starting to get out of control. Let's hope I can calm her down before I lose command of the ship."
JR, NYC

"My desktop pic on my computer which is a home and work combo (because I am self employed) is a pic of the range of cupcakes that my business sells. I have just started a business called ilovecupcakes and my partner and I have big aspirations of making the cupcake the next big thing in Israel. So this pic just serves as added motivation each morning and I am hoping that the more I look at the cupcakes and the more we bake and taste, the less I am going to want to eat these little beauty's. I hope..."

HR, Tel Aviv

"My desktop at home is clean and simple. My work desktop (pictured) has a lot of unused icons, word files spread wantonly upon't, and more stuff in the task tray than I know what to do with. I balance it out by having two little kittens in a barrel as my background. Whenever my day gets too intense, I can look in little Phillipp's eyes and my anger will recede like an ocean."
JR - Thrashville, TN

"Anguilla, one of the prettiest places in the world. And it wasn't even a sunny day. Shortcuts to folders that contain everything I need to know for the moment. iTunes open, Gmail open, always. My home computer. " EWK, NYC

"If I'm ever feeling stressed, i just hit Win+M to minimize everything and stare at this cute guy - Home Computer." TP, Memphis, TN

"here's my desktop. currently the image is a still from the new Where the Wild Things Are movie. I'm looking forward to it. They're trading in the CGI for old school costume design and it's looking good."
MCR, NYC

"This picture is from my friend's birthday party. I love how happy and relaxed we all are. It makes me happy when I see it." NB, NYC, USA

"This desktop is of my laptop. Its a picture of my boyfriend and me standing in front of the famous "Tour d'Eifel" in Paris. And purple is such a great colour."
Alina,Freiburg,Germany

"As noted, this is my work pc. I work at a non-profit in Brooklyn, NY.

I love sci-fi and all that it embodies- the what if's always surrounding the human condition. This wallpaper is by Gilles Nuytens, is a mix of a few different sci fi shows, it reminds me of all the the possibilities..."

PdP, Brooklyn, NY

"I'm constantly changing the way my Desktop looks. This screenshot was captured when I was playing with Talisman, an windows shell replacement. The only thing I forgot to do back then was minimize google-talk :(" SH, USA

"A picture of my dad and I taken when I was 4. He's taught me everything I'll ever need to know in life, including engine repair. I've always looked up to him, except between the ages of 12 - 21 when I was a dickhead and an idiot. This is the desktop for my home computer, and it gives me more motivation to study." JW, NYC, USA

"i have a weird obsessive/compulsive desire to name all of my coveted electronic appliances (only the ones i use frequently, i'm definitely not naming wall sockets and dvd players). so this is my laptop, ophelia. i've gone through 3 laptops in 3 years and they've all had slow and painful deaths - tragic coke spill by my little sister for sparky, viral infection and subsequent comatose state for rosie the riveter - so i felt like this laptop needed to be treated more delicately and thus needed an appropriately more delicate, ultra-feminine name to remind me to take better care of it. HENCE! ophelia. this desktop picture is my absolute favorite vargas pin-up, and it definitely exemplifies ophelia's delicate, sexy charm. :)" ST, NYC, USA

"I have on my desktop an image of one of the greatest movies ever made, "My Neighbor, Totoro" by Hayao Miyazaki (along with my love of virtual post-notes on the right hand side because I tend to be very forgetful -__-)...It's my home computer." DY, NYC, USA

AB, Los Angeles, USA

"Here's my desktop." RP, NYC, USA

"This is enso, the Buddhist symbol for Zen. It reminds me to keep things simple." AK, New York City, USA

"Personal MacBook. My hand, as seen through the iSight camera's "Glow" effect." AJR, Washington DC, USA

This pretty much sums of my dog's approach to life. I consider him "The Dude" of canines. DC, Tel Aviv

"This is from my personal laptop. It's a picture I took of the Moon Valley in the Atacama Desert in Chile. The image doesn't really inspire me at all, but I keep it solely because I love the smug satisfaction I get when I tell people that I took it myself and that it's not a stock photo, of course!" AT, NJ, USA

"My desktop is basically a to do list. I think ideally it would just have a trashcan on it, although so far that's never happened. I don't understand why it's actually called a recycle bin either. It doesn't recycle anything. Hmm, what does that say about me? The photo is of Bryce Canyon National Park. It's from last winter break and reminds me of Ben. Oh, and it's a home computer. Woo!" TS, USA

"dfgfdgdfgdf" PK, CT, USA

"my location is san francisco and this desktop was selected the day after the greatest event of the last decade or so and this seems to very adequately sum up the way most of the people I know feel." BS, SF, USA

"This is actually paper that I discovered in India for my wedding stationery. When I scanned it I thought it would make a serene desktop, and it is very relaxing sometimes. Other times it just stresses me out." CA, CT, USA

"this is my super exasperated ego.....sometimes when i come home and kurt has left too many dishes in the sink ; )" YW, CT, USA

"The background image is a drawing of the Hostalets Youth Center by the late Enric Miralles. It's one of my favorite projects, done by my favorite architect. It serves as a daily reminder of why I chose this profession." JB, CT, USA