One of my favorite screensavers [warning, possibly not work safe] downloads random images from the web and makes a collage on the screen. For whatever reason I always noticed that it was fairly tactful about the links it found. That is, it somehow managed to avoid porn rather well, which is kinda important in an office environment. For whatever reason (a new version with a different algorithm, I suspect), this weekend that trend changed. An officemate called me up to let me know that my computer was randomly putting pictures of naked women across the screen in the empty office sunday. He was afraid someone had broken into my computer and was putting the images there as a joke. Even more amusing was the truth; my computer simply decided to get them on its own. I’ve since disabled that screensaver, but I’ll miss it greatly. In the meantime, check out the homepage above and play with that version. That one even lets you click links to the homepages, so you can see where it found its more interesting photos.
You should really mark that link “not safe for work,” so that nobody else opens it up at work with others in the office like I did.
Left by John on July 15th, 2003
Or at least “potentially not safe for work.” I look at it now and it’s totally PG, but the first time I looked at it there was a naked (beautiful) girl right smack-dab in the center of the screen.
Left by John on July 15th, 2003
It’s russian roulette for work. Good point.
Left by Jordan on July 15th, 2003
So, is there no return to the old screensaver now? It would be cool to have that one back, I think.
Left by David M on July 15th, 2003
Just checked this page out again and I got a rather intriguing collage. There were a few churches, a picture of Micheal Jackson brushing his hair back and talking into a microphone, right on top of that was a black sign with illegible white lettering, at the bottom there were children, against of field of blue… with a Gary Larson cartoon right in the middle reading… In 1957 The world was introduced to spam. (World, this is Spam. Spam, this is the world)
Classic!
Left by David M on November 30th, 2003