InterfaceLift.com provides breathtaking desktop backgrounds in addition to icons for Windows XP and visual styles for both Mac OS X and Windows XP.  I found the site while searching for a widescreen desktop background.  The site not only features backgrounds for widescreen monitors but standard monitors as well - in a variety of sizes:

• 2560 x 1600
• 1920 x 1200
• 1680 x 1050
• 1440 x 900
• 1280 x 800
• 1600 x 1200
• 1280 x 1024
• 1280 x 960
• 1024 x 768
• Sony PSP

As with many sites such as this one, you can sort your results by category, size, date, highest rated, most downloaded, etc., and so on.

technorati tags:desktop, wallpaper, backgrounds, widescreen

Thanks to the LAPD Blog, I now have SEVERAL more reasons to stay planted in Tennessee with my redneck brethren:

• Gang Member Shoots Children at Play in Boyle Heights
• Korean Man Stabbed to Death
• Man Found Shot in His Car
• Elderly Man Killed, Teen Wounded
• Double Homicide in West Los Angeles

Don’t get me wrong…I wish many more units like the LAPD published blogs like this, if nothing more than to create awareness, and I wish them all the best.

technorati tags:lapd, blog

Gizmodo has an extremely informative update on Microsoft’s attempt to knock the sucktacular iTunes/iPod off of its’ huge throne: Zune.

Supposedly featuring support for WiFi and gaming, the Zune player and as-yet-untitled music store should be a welcome entry to this underwhelming market.  Granted, I think I thought the same thing about URGE (from Microsoft & MTV.)  I love the subscription service options that both Napster and URGE (as well as Rhapsody and others) offer but Pixar’s Cars movie was compiled in less of an amount of time than it takes me to navigate the URGE store and Napster’s player is one of the buggiest programs I think I’ve ever played with.

Here’s hoping that the Zune move works because if I see someone else buy an iPod because it’s “cool” - I may just have to take a flying leap out of my office.

I don’t have time to make this stuff up, people.

I left Flock running last night at around 7:30pm.  I went back to it at about 7:30am and here’s where it was.  I was doing absolutely NOTHING extraordinary at the time…there were no videos running, no games being played, etc.  Oy vey.