If you spend more than 10 minutes a week on your computer, you probably give a sh!t about your wallpaper.
And vacation photos are both lame and get old quick.

Here’s a list of some of the more spectacular (free) wallpapers (from left to right, top row first):

• You can’t spell ‘mahogany’ without ‘Mmmmm.’ Japanese design firm 9031’s free wood wallpapers (via WeAreTheMarket.com).

• [adult swim] has tons of their own awesome trademark wallpapers, and wallpapers of their many shows and cartoons.

•Goopymart’s wide array of often insane artworks make great wallpapers.

•Unazukin wallpapers can be simultaneously cheery and creepy.

•City Shrinker’s (monthly) urban miniature wallpapers (via Notcot).

•Kjetiljul.com’s paintings of comfortable art studios and interior spaces make for tranquil wallpapers.

•Mr. Toast wallpapers – breakfast foods with personality.

•I’ve had background cell art for the Venture Bros. cartoon series as wallpaper on my laptop for almost a year. Can’t beat it.

•Wallpapers of the new Indiana Jones movie.

•Wallpapers of the winners of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.

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There is a great misconception that complex society breeds violence and that simpler societies live harmoniously.

Like Ewoks.

Next time you have to listen to some crunchy hippie going on about making with world a better place by living in a tee-pee, beat them over the head with this one:

Steven Pinker’s talk on “The Myth of Violence” (TED Talks, 2007):

 (via Sachs Report, via Lifehack)

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JimmyR has got a collection of some of the greatest student exam answers I’ve seen in a long time. Study up, all you young Dillatites out there, or else this will be you! Click the image for more.

(Thanks to Katya for the link)

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Bookmark this post – we will be updating this schedule as events appear

Here’s a working list of upcoming bitchin’ stuff, mark your calendars:

MAY
May 1 – The Breeders will make an appearance at Amoeba Music, San Francisco.

May 2 – The film Iron Man opens.
May 2 – The (limited) opening of the film Son of Rambow.

May 3-4 – The Maker Faire, San Mateo County Fairgrounds.
May 4 – The Japanese Nikkei Matsuri Festival in Japantown, San Jose.

May 6-7 – Flight of the Conchords play the Town Hall Theatre, NY.

May 9-11 – The 37th annual Stanford Pow-Wow.

May 16 – Actor/author/director Henry Winkler speaks at the Menlo Park library. Coool! ‘The Fonz.”

May 17 – The Blogadilla 1 year anniversary!!

May 22 – The long-awaited film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens.
May 22 – The Yard Dogs Road Show hobo cabaret plays the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, CA.

May 23 – The (limited) opening of the John Cusack film War, Inc..

May 24-25 – The Morgan Hill Mushroom Mardi Gras, Morgan Hill, CA.

May 25 – The Neil Diamond cover band SuperDiamond plays Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley.
May 25 – NASA’s Phoenix Lander will land near the north pole of Mars.
May 25 – The Crucible in conjunction with NASA present a Mars-themed show “Fire and Ice,” Oakland, CA.

May 27 – Flight of the Conchords play Hob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco.

May 29 – Flight of the Conchords play Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco.

May 31 – The Neil Diamond cover band SuperDiamond plays Harrah’s, Lake Tahoe.

(more…)

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This one is from Michelle – from Calgary, Canada.
(As opposed to Calgary, Guatemala)

It’s “Gimpy the Snowman.”
Anonymously made on her front yard when she wasn’t home.

(via Michelle – Thanks much, eh!)

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This Saturday and Sunday (May 3nd – 4st) is Make Magazine’s third annual ‘Maker Faire’ – a festival of DIY and all things hacker.

At the San Mateo County Fairgrounds, adult day pass $25, student $15, child $10.

Here’s a video I made of last year’s Maker Faire:

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My three favorite words: FREE CONE DAY

No, it’s not a joke – today is ‘Free Cone Day’ at Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Stores, to celebrate their 30th anniversary of dairy loving.

(via Isabel – thanks!)

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