I found the desktop meme through What the Hell is Wrong With You?. I’ve become much less enthusiastic about memes in the past few years, but this one doesn’t bug me — maybe because it’s vaguely similar to the images inspired by Johndan’s workspace project.

Until I took shots of these, I never really noticed that I have an affinity for using Internet art as backgrounds, particularly if it involves animals.

This is the White Macbook desktop, known in the household network hierarchy as Pale Critter. The face is a pen-and-ink critter by Steven Burke, who makes hilarious fine line beings and has a bunch more good stuff that’s linked up on his sidebar. This is the phone, with its celebratory sea monster. It’s by R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties fame. Wherever my squid goes, I go too.