Author Archives: Niall Murphy

‘A busy desktop is the sign of a disordered mind’ goes the old adage we quite literally just made up.

If, like the Broadsheet staff, your desktop is cluttered with jpegs of otters, unfinished sci-fi screenplays and furry porn, you might like to consider something less crazed than tiled Justin Beiber pics or rainbow fractals as a backdrop.

Simple Desktops offers a huge range of free, downloadable, calm, sober minimalist wallpapers.

They’re very boring indeed.

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Kooly The Bear Tightropes Over Shark Mountain

Obama And Eagle Start National Suburban Tour

Scrambled Egg Faced Boy Helps Fish Join The Team

True American Dog is one of the most unhinged and hilarious websites we’ve seen this week. The premise is simple: fake news headlines combined with batshit photoshoppery.

Follow. Friend. Visit. Enjoy.

Movie site, IMDB recently revamped its interface. With a nod to Spinal Tap buffs, the designer adjusted the star rating of the world’s greatest Rockumentary (if you will) so that it goes to 11.

Yay. Unfortunately, you can still only rate the movie to ten. Boo.

Get it right, IMDB.

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The international blogosphere, it seems, is on the brink of momentous change. In the wake of Richard Branson’s iPad friendly Project Magazine, shiny and terrifying terms like ‘scoop’, ‘aggregate’, ‘splash’ and ‘roadblock’ are being bandied about in the tech media like big, shiny, terrifying bandy things.

Behold Blog 2.0. First Gawker, next TwentyMajor:

The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years. The internet, television and magazines are merging; and the optimal strategy will assemble the best from each medium.

You can already see 2011 layout on the beta versions of Gawker and other titles. The blog scroll, long the central element of the page, is shifted to the right column, still prominent but subordinate; that reverse-chronological listing of the latest stories goes from about two thirds of the active area of the front door down to one third; and only headlines are displayed.

Ah yes. But do these websites have a header that goes all candy-coloured of a Friday?

No they don’t.

Booyah!

Why Gawker Is Moving Beyond The Blog (Lifehacker)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0&feature=player_embedded

Jesus. If you made it through any more than a minute and a half of that, you’ll be needing a dose of the original version (with bonus Geldof), to cleanse your audio-palate.

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