Thank god for Spotlight

ERECTION.doc

LOL

LMFAO good eye!

Mmmm, FISHSHIT...

notespam to match your desktop spam!

Whacking off?

Bogosexual

Very interesting file names!

I Dream of Ducks too XD

I love nice clothes! <3

Ballroom blitz is an awesome song, and I think your future plans should be to clean up your desktop! ;^)

Worst. Desktop. Ever.

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::justin:: says:

what lol how did this happen?
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

A deliberate experement by a colleague.
Decided to save EVERYTHING to the desktop and just use finder and spotlight to browse files.

Makes me cringe just looking at it, but it worked and produced this very interesting image!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

ksaad says:

lol
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

NateTheGreat says:

I had a boss like this. He had OS 8, though :o
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Benn G. says:

Oh! Dear! God! I've seen this on a PC before - which would be even worse!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

Broken Lens says:

iTunes 10.0/The Explosive Edition
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

daniel_r says:

That's art!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

justsetups.com says:

Nice picture you should post it in

www.flickr.com/groups/justdesktops/
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Brajeshwar says:

LOL. This can tend to become an art if seen from a different perspective. Anyway, this is the exact opposite of my desktop -- I hate anything on it save for the wallpaper that is there by default. :-)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Zachary Gilmartin says:

hahaha nice
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

jimmyl_l says:

For the uninitiated Mac user, I just find this odd... Someone care to explain?

If you're a drudge fan: www.drudgetracker.com
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

m1ss1ontomars2k4 says:

I've done this before. But because I have snap to grid on, the new icons just end up piling up in the upper right corner. On Leopard, it's worse, because you can't pile them up somewhere else to look for something.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

gabescalise says:

FISHSHIT EP 2..... nice
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lukesedney says:

"For the uninitiated Mac user, I just find this odd... Someone care to explain?"

Mac has a pretty cool search tool called spotlight, this guy saved everything to his desktop in a disorganized mess and just used that to get to his files.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

HaDAk says:

"For the uninitiated Mac user, I just find this odd... Someone care to explain?"

Take a gander:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%2 9
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

juvir says:

Just looking at it gets me frustrated.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Zane Perry says:

What is Spotlight?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Lane C says:

I would actually like this framed and on my wall, I am a total geek and I think this looks better than 99% of what people would call art.

Great experiment btw :-D
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ken_wickedboy says:

Nice spot for erection.doc
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

william roth says:

makes for a good wallpaper.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

elislider says:

youve made it on digg.com frontpage
digg.com/travel_places/Spotlight_to_the_rescu e_Pic
seriously tho, this is hilarious.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Dralezero says:

"fishshit" in bottom left
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

courtfkizer says:

My desktop has 10,825 items on it. I juggle a bunch of user experience content at the office, after a while having things in piles and using spotlight is as easy and faster than wasting time keeping "organized"

It actually forces you to use spotlight or better methods. I remember a while ago they did a study that found people who had messy paper all over their desks were much faster and "organized" than people who kept their desk areas tidy.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

s.a.young says:

Why would someone do that to themselves?! I think my Mac desktop is cluttered when I have more than one column filled with icons.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Ben Jacob is moving to flickr/benjacob says:

Its a Mac !!!
Switch to MS Windows > Right Click on Desktop > View > Align to grid..
Yes you have done it.. Now you have a brand new DESKTOP..
not an ugly Os* desktop :P
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

flystar06 says:

don't they say not to keep too many icons on your desktop because it tends to slow it down ... and wouldn't you have to remember the names (to some extent) to be able to find what you need in spotlight? ... i mean ... holy crap.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

hudson99 says:

@ Ben Jacob: You can do that on a Mac, as well as easily changing dozens of other options about how files are displayed - this person just chooses not to.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

furiouscookie23 says:

Now that eliminates the need for a wallpaper!!!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

ploerr says:

Great; what a view ;-)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

photon bomb says:

But it's still OSX so, as is, it's better than any MS Windows desktop :D
In other words, only the worst _OSX_ desktop ever.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

tshane says:

*gulp*

--
Seen on popurls.com (?)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

cuirithir says:

Just goes to show you - no matter which OS you use, there's always someone out there that will do something silly to it for attention and those that will ballyhoo the mess.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

lookorex says:

Wow...

I found "Whacking off thru milk"
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

AndrewJ says:

I once worked desktop support and an administrative support person called us because they thought their hard drive was getting full. I got there and their desktop (win95 at the time) was littered with documents like the image - I asked why - the answer? "Well the hard drive is almost full, so I started saving stuff here..."

It gets better - I also noticed that there were tens of documents in the recycle bin and asked if the user if it was ok to get rid of them - "No! I was saving things there too..."

I'll swear on a stack of Bibles that it's true...
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Huston says:

I'm taking this approach lately as well. I'm not saving everything on my desktop or even in the same spot, but I am saving all my pictures in just the Pictures folder, all documents in just the Documents folder, etc and then using Spotlight to find what I need rather than making some multi-level hierarchical mess of folders.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

cajaks2 says:

any new operating system can do this osx isnt god
linux has tracker
vista has instant search
i mean technically you can put google desktops on xp so it can do it as well.
Though, you do have to member names of the files and if you forget your kinda screwed.
though i like the picture anyway! i'd go crazy
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

grizzlybrice says:

It's like a Where's Waldo book!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

danhbolton says:

Lol, I'm going to save that as a jpg and use it as my wallpaper.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

El Mariachi 94 says:

Eh, that's disgusting.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

FrouFrouBijou.com says:

best wallpaper EVER
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

finalillumina says:

that would drive me insane, i hate anything on my desktop, i even took the recycle bin off of it.
i would slap that person.. seriously.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Greet D says:

Strange, when I save a lot of documents to the desktop, they just start piling up in the upper right corner when the screen is filled.

Oh and wasn't he ever unable to find a file because he forgot the filename?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

danpatmore says:

Thanks for all the comments and Digg's. I glad others had the same morbid fascination with this image as I did, kinda like slowing down at a car accident.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

SuratL says:

View > Clean Up
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

mr ographer says:

When you're done with the experiment and want to quickly delete all of those files use Terminal to do it. (under the assumption you can't drag all of it to the trash)
MWL post on performing this.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

kalleboo says:

This reminds me of me in System 7/8/9. Only they were text clippings, and they only covered the borders around my web browser window.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

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