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Posts Tagged ‘art’

A gallery of geeky galleries

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that we love everything geeky, and we have often put together themed galleries that appeal to tech geeks like ourselves.

Here is a collection of some of the geekiest galleries that have come and gone on this blog.

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17 awesome Firefox-themed wallpapers

We know there are a lot of people out there who love Firefox (including us here at Pingdom), so here is a whole bunch of really nice Firefox-themed wallpapers that you can adorn your desktop with.

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Close-ups that reveal the beauty of silicon chips and circuits

Symmetry and asymmetry, structure and detailed designs. Are we talking about art? In this case, no, we’re talking about silicon chips, integrated circuits and electronics. Look at these close-ups and macro shots, and you’ll see why sometimes they could just as well be considered art.

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25 amazing people celebrated by Google

Since 2002, Google has honored 25 historical people with custom-made versions of the Google logo, displayed for one day on the Google homepage.

Judging by the people Google have selected so far, don’t expect any WWF wrestling stars to show up anytime soon. It’s an elite collection of highly influential scientists, artist and architects who have made their mark on human history and culture.

Here they are, all 25 of them, in reverse chronological order.

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Geeky computer part art

We here at Pingdom clearly belong to the “geek category” of people here on Earth. We love computers and technology, and almost anything related to that. Even when the computers have been broken down and recycled, they can provide gratification, as shown by the pictures you see below.
This is a collection of art (and cool [...]

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When data center cabling becomes art

We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.

Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.

Courtesy of ChrisDag.

Courtesy of mbm3290. Swedish colors! How could we NOT include it?

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ASCII art generator

We stumbled on a geeky but nifty little Web application that converts images to ASCII art, the ASCII-O-Matic.
Being geeks ourselves, of course we couldn’t resist seeing what it would do to our logo…

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