# What's your desktop background?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 3, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168 "2005-05-03T02:43:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/1 "2005-05-03T02:43:26Z")
I’m searching for a new desktop background. So far, I haven’t had too much luck. So I thought I’d poll my fellow Dopers to see what they’ve got.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/2 "2005-05-03T02:46:56Z")
[Serenity.](http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=gallery.main)
September 30, baby! 😃
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/3 "2005-05-03T02:53:21Z")
[This](http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=403529&Start=37&Artist=gerberc&ByArtist=Yes), except I’ve changed the color and made it redder.
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### Author:  [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/4 "2005-05-03T02:59:00Z")
I change mine about once a week, and it’s pretty much always one of my own photos.
Currently it’s a picture from yesterday of a building on my college campus (Ohio Wesleyan Unviersity). [Here’s](http://www.pbase.com/piggiston/image/42800870.jpg) a small version.
Last week it was a close-up of the top of Key Tower in Cleveland ([mini link](http://www.pbase.com/piggiston/image/42154470.jpg)).
I’m afraid I can’t help you much in finding a good new background.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/5 "2005-05-03T02:59:48Z")
Usually photos I’ve taken, mostly either aviation or shipping. Currently, a ground-to-air shot of the Commemorative Air Force’s Curtiss Helldiver, displayed at last year’s Wings Over Houston air show.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/6 "2005-05-03T03:02:04Z")
I made my wallpaper myself, since I couldn’t find anything premade based on the Courtney Crumrin comics (I also make my own icons, now).
[This](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/Nekogami/Wallpaper/CourtneyWallpaper1.jpg) is what it looks like. (I also have a [1024X768 version](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/Nekogami/Wallpaper/CourtneyWallpaper1-1024X768.jpg), which I made more or less for the heck of it.) From the cover of CC & the Coven of Mystics #1 - cropped it, moved her name down, removed the numbering and ‘fifth anniversary’ blurb from the Oni logo.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/7 "2005-05-03T03:02:25Z")
The middle one on the left from [here](http://chickenhead.com/desktops/2.asp). At work I have a scene from _Fantasia_ (alligagors in capes and a hippo in a tutu), but I don’t remember when I got it.
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### Author:  [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/8 "2005-05-03T03:02:40Z")
[This](http://explodingdog.com/january2/areyougoingtospendyourwhole.html), centered and with the background done to match the color of the sky. I love explodingdog.
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### Author:  [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/9 "2005-05-03T03:29:44Z")
Mine’s bizarre. It’s done in different shades of purple. It’s a six pointed star, like a star of Davis, with a 4 toed foot in the middle. There are swirls throughout, as well. I find mine by doing a google picture search for something random, like purple or flower. It’s fun. Maybe I’ll change mine, it’s been like this for a while
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### Author:  [@StarsApart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarsApart)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/10 "2005-05-03T03:45:02Z")
I can’t help much with finding a good new desktop, since mine’s personal, but [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/Muasaum_2/collage.jpg) is mine. I made it using Picasa.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/11 "2005-05-03T03:45:10Z")
Mine is [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/frenchified/mucha/muchaoriginal09.jpg), centered and with a black background. I’ve just saved a bunch of backgrounds from the site that **twickster** linked to, so it may soon be two guys in their skivvies holding fig leaves. Because that’s hot.
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### Author:  [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/12 "2005-05-03T03:47:16Z")
Me driving my sports car on a race track, taken by a professional photographer. [It’s one of these](http://www.euroimage.us/test/HPDE%203/350/index.htm) (I change them around every so often).
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/13 "2005-05-03T03:59:26Z")
It an astronomical one featureing two spiral galaxies. I don’t know whether or not they’re colliding. NASA just has so many cool pics though.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/14 "2005-05-03T04:06:42Z")
I have a pic of the Villa of the Mysteries on mine.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/15 "2005-05-03T04:10:45Z")
[Better late than never.](http://cache.boston.com/images/sports/redsox/2005/04_11_05_bannercf_800600.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/16 "2005-05-03T04:15:10Z")
I have a great shot of [Mount St Helens](http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/MSH05/MSH05_aerial_st_helens_adams_from_west_02-25-05_med.jpg) as my background.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/17 "2005-05-03T04:16:01Z")
A desktop-sized version of [this](http://sadpunk.org/daily/050426/1stprize1.jpg). I change it once a week or so; it’s nearly always something I shot myself.
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### Author:  [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/18 "2005-05-03T04:31:59Z")
No no no, **Casey** , it’s [better Nate than lever](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314287).
As for me: I [have](http://www.deviantart.com/view/16460900/) [these](http://www.trekconnection.com/art/images/teklord/Borg-1024x768.jpg) [three](http://www.trekmeshes.ch/publicgallery/images/We_Brake_For_No_one.JPG), and a picture of my girlfriend.
If none of the ones here do it for you, head over to [DeviantArt (possibly not worksafe)](http://www.deviantart.com), there are many, many visually stunning wallpapers there.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/19 "2005-05-03T05:26:48Z")
It’s a painting of one of the glorious sensets that inspired so many artists after Krakatoa exploded in the Nineteenth Century.
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### Author:  [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-desktop-background/302168/20 "2005-05-03T05:46:00Z")
I searched and searched until I could find the most [beautiful, refined, uplifting and just plain edifying work of art in existence](http://www.steviesmith.org/We_all_have.gif) for my desktop.
(Who couldn’t love Stevie Smith).
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