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12 Responses to “No Flying Toasters”

1. scully
   March 7th, 2003 at 10:37 am

   

   People still use screensavers?

   I can’t help with screensavers, but I did develop some of my own desktop images a while back.

2. Dave
   March 7th, 2003 at 10:54 am

   

   scully- a lot of companies require everyone to have a screensaver with a password on their machines, as a security measure while you’re away from your desk.

   i got a slideshow screensaver from webshots.com that cycles through photos you load into it. for my photos, i used a bunch of spoof motivational posters. You know those stupid office motivational posters with one big word at the bottom like “Confidence” or “Persistence”? These are take-offs on those with words like “Procrastination” , “Apathy” and “Mediocrity”. They’re pretty funny. (http://www.meadmaker.com/joke/mot/mot01.html)

3. scully
   March 7th, 2003 at 11:03 am

   

   Dave: My office realises that a screensaver is a poor substitute for real security

   Ariel said she was looking for “funky” “artistic” and “cleverness.” She didn’t mention drum-tight security.

   Also, please notice the winking emoticion at the end of the original comment.

   Happy Friday folks!

4. Dave
   March 7th, 2003 at 11:04 am

   

   i think maybe you misinterpreted my tone, scully. i was just making an observation. sorry for any confusion.

5. Jim
   March 7th, 2003 at 11:07 am

   

   This is funky.

   There’s a Windows version too.

6. db
   March 7th, 2003 at 12:16 pm

   

   At one time, I had a configurable screen saver prog called “Drempels”. It was this liquid trippy color/pattern morph kinda thing, and it looked great, but it would never come on when it was supposed to. Of course, at the time, there was (unbeknownst to me) a nasty little executable raging through my system as a result of some horrid piggyback prog from something I had installed, and eventually, I had to reformat to clean up, so it may have been that…looked fantastic, though…

7. Dave
   March 7th, 2003 at 12:48 pm

   

   heh…here’s a blast from the past. anyone remember the old HP Mopyfish? LOL. I did some checking…looks like it’s not HP any more, but you can still get it at http://www.mopyfish.net

8. Emily
   March 7th, 2003 at 2:12 pm

   

   Check out Refresh: the Art of the Screen Saver!! 22 very cool designs by funky artists

9. paisley
   March 7th, 2003 at 9:51 pm

   

   if you haven’t yet - go to : julius
   my favorite in fun and sassy screensavers and wallpapers - all paul frank

10. Scott
    March 7th, 2003 at 10:40 pm

    

    I’m a big fan of the Magritte screen savers included with this Magritte desktop theme. They’re animated versions of Magritte paintings, not just slide shows. So, the painting of the rain of bowler-hat-wearing men is made into a screen saver involving the animated raining of those men. I think it’s quite entertaining.

11. Christine
    March 11th, 2003 at 6:49 am

    

    I’m all about Drempels, it’s just too damn cool. http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/

    I mean, it says it’s psychotherapeutic, how can you go wrong?

12. Fidel
    March 14th, 2003 at 1:59 am

    

    Considering I don’t know your computer configuration, I don’t know if any of these will work for you.. But if they do these are some of my favorite screens.
    http://www.pegtop.de
    http://www.planestate.net/
    http://www.reallyslick.com
    Angelicus … This ones hard to find. maybe it isn’t but as far as I know the author doesn’t have a website currently. It should be mobbing it on cdrom.com or simtel or whatever though. It’s extremely beautiful. there are others.. scr’s are one of my favorite Otaku’s. these are off the top of my head and haven’t been mentioned.