[OT] What is your current desktop wallpaper?

[kkoie]

well my desktop changes depending on my mood, but this is one of the more cool ones (I second Hubble pics!)

It's an image captured by the Hubble telescope of a super-nova.

 

[Eternalknight]

I believe this is the photo you are talking about.

Julianne Moore

It can't be a Kodachi, she's the Black Rose of St. Hebereke High.

Nice. Very nice. Anyone know where to get more pics like that?

 

[wolff96]

I believe this is the photo you are talking about.

That is indeed the one.

I love that photo.

Then again, I love her, so I guess it's not too much of a stretch.

 

[Black Omega]

Nice. Very nice. Anyone know where to get more pics like that?

Get to know Julianne Moore

Is the webpage I found the image at, it has additional photo galleries.

Personally, my wallpaper at the moment is from the L5R Homepage , they have wallpapers for the Crane, Dragon and Mantis Clans for the newest CCG release. I'm using the Mantis one at present.

 

[Henry]

My current wallpaper at work is Middle Earth Map

at home it is:

http://www.reapermini.com/goodies/desktops/piotr_1280.jpg

 

[Clain MacFaileas]

"OBEY," writen in white on a black background.

 

[Oni]

I have a lot of LotR artwork I use, but right now I have this image....tile it, it's cool.

 

[Allanon]

enworld.cyberstreet.com/news as active desktop... never mis a thing

 

[Hand of Evil]

BUMP...so what is on your desktop!

 

[Krieg]

Just switched from an endzone view of Ohio Stadium (home of The Ohio State Buckeyes) to a panaromic shot of the Wadi al-Salam (Valley of Peace) Cemetery in Al-Najaf Iraq. It is absolutely amazing. It is one of the two largest cemetaries in the world and supposedly there are over five million bodies buried within it's walls...

While neither of the below photos is the one I have as my wallpaper, they give a good idea of the scope of the place (be sure to check the scale at the bottom left of the satellite imagery).

Eventually I am going to sit down and put together a map of this monster, it absolutely has to find a place in my game.

Wadi al-Salam Cemetery



Shiites from all over the world, not only Iraqis or Iranians, but Shiites from Pakistan, India, Bahrain, all over the world go to Najaf and they ask to be buried in Najaf close to that mosque. And historically and religiously it's a very important city and mosque for Shiite Muslims. Shiites aspire to bury their dead in its cemetery, which stretches for miles. To the north and east of the town there are acres of graves and myriads of domes of various colors and at various stages of disrepair. The cemetery of Al-Najaf is one of the largest cemeteries in the world. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing in Najaf is the graveyard. Millions of Muslims over the centuries have been brought here for burial from all parts of the world of Islam. So Najaf is embraced by a vast semi-circle of graves- by an immense City of the Dead. The the Wadi al-Salam [Valley of Peace] cemetery is believed to be either the largest or the second largest cemetery in the world. It is the holiest and most highly sought-after burial place among Shiites. There are acres of graves and myriads of domes of various colours and at various stages of disrepair to the North and East of the town. Corpses are brought from across Iraq, Iran and elsewhere in the Shiite world to lie close to Imam Ali, the cousin of Muhammad and his successor, whose remains are enshrined in a gold-domed mosque. The trade involving transporting dead bodies from far off areas of Shi’a dead has been operating for centuries. Saddam had curtailed the "corpse traffic" from Iran after the war started in 1980, but after his fall it resumed, reviving the local economy with a profitable "corpse traffic" of at least a 100 funerals a day. The corpse traffic is organized and regulated by the Customs and Health Departments -- Customs collects duty on the corpses and Health keeps watch to prevent epidemics.

Cut-n-paste from GlobalSecurity.org...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/najaf.htm