Perfect if you want that American touch, or if you just want something beautiful and mesmerizing to look at. Download the wallpaper here.

Take me home, country roads… Check it out here.

Great theme if you’re into things of the more psychedelic nature. This HD wallpaper is available in many different sizes – take a look at it here.

This one is the obvious choice for all the Mac-lovers out there. Pimp your Mac with a Mac… Double the fun!

This photo makes me feel very Zen, a big plus when you have a stressful day at work. You’ll find this wallpaper here.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is one of my all-time favorites and it’s not only because of its great content (although it’s excellent) but because of its great design. It’s mainly black and white with some colors popping out here and there. The best thing is of course its typography. I don’t know any other website that’s been as successful as The New Yorker when it comes to transforming a certain typography into being part of their brand.

Let it Bleed

There is just something about this site that’s so very appealing. I’m usually not a big fan of dark websites but if it’s done properly there’s nothing better. Well, perhaps there is – let’s just agree that this is a beautiful site that’s truly inspiring.

Favorite Website Awards

The FWA website is pure heaven when it comes to finding inspiration. Take a look at the “Site of the day”, “Site of the month” and so on… You get the idea. This is the Oscars of web design and it’s probably the best site to visit if you’re having a slow day at work.

So, that’s it. Three websites should do the trick. Still not inspired? Have a cup of coffee and a long walk. Still not inspired?!?!? Hope is over for you…

Autofocus

Autofocus is a very clean and modern looking theme that is especially designed with photographers in mind. Use this theme if you want to showcase your work in a stylish environment. You won’t have that much freedom when it come the settings but it’s very easy to work with so it shouldn’t cause you any trouble anyways.

Snapshot

This is yet another great theme if you want to showcase your pictures, design or any other kind of portfolio. With Snapshot comes a free voting system which allows your visitors to rate your work. Very cool indeed.

Crafty Cart

If you want to sell products directly from your blog, then Crafty Cart is a great free theme to choose. It has somewhat of a retro style and it’s simply an easy manageable eCommerce WP theme. Good stuff!

Whatever one might think about Google and its dominant position on the market – they’re at least having fun with their logo. Whereas many company’s stick to one logo for years and years Google is having fun with theirs. Yes, it’s easier for them to play around with the logo than it is for your average business that needs consistency to build the brand into something recognizable and trustworthy but hey… It’s still fun to see. In the two first years as a company Google also avoided altering the logo, with the exception of the burning man logo, thanksgiving and the Holidays but then in the year 2000 things started happening. Visit Google’s website to check out all of their logos, from way back in 1998 up till now, 2010.

“A bad company and one of the employees “X” has a grudge against me because I am on disability. Clearly discrimination. Hands down. Who cares if I am on disability? What if you broke your back? You do not know why I am disabled in the first place as well. Many Americans do not have a job too but it was just because I said I was disability. He was fine with me until I mentioned it. Plus, this guy threatened me on AOL about calling CPS on my children. This company provides horrible service and has a big ego.”

Have you ever felt discriminated when buying a service of some kind?

Super Bowl is as you all know just around the corner, 7th of Feb to be exact, and it will of course be interesting to see who wins between New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts but I know that many people are looking forward to see the ads in-between the game (how often does one look forward to the ads?!!?) as well. The Super Bowl ads are known for being super expensive and also, often, very funny.

This year we will get to see ads by for example Frito-Lay’s Doritos (who topped last year’s USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter), Mars Chocolate, Homeaway Inc, Diamond Foods and of course GoDaddy (for the sixth year in a row). We recently published an article about the GoDaddy girls and say what you want about their ads; they always manage to create a certain buzz (in lack of a better word). It’ll be interesting to see what they’ve come up with this year…

I just recently wrote a short post about YouTube entering the rental market with five indie movies that was showcased at the Sundance movie festival. So, how did it go? Hmmm… I don’t think a total view of 2,684 views netting a total of $10,709.16 can be seen as a great success. That’s a shame as I thought that this could be the start of something very good.

Perhaps needless to say but I don’t think these numbers will scare companies such as Netflix and Amazon. YouTube however claims that they were very happy with the test but I just can’t see what they have to be happy over. That it worked? Well, that shouldn’t be the most difficult thing a company that’s already streaming videos. Sure, they weren’t blockbuster movies YouTube has millions of users and now we’re talking about a mere 2,684 views. The future of their rental service is difficult to predict but I sincerely hope that this wasn’t the last we will hear about it.

There are times when we all need to come together and do whatever we can to help people that are under distress. Just recently we saw how an entire country got affected, in the most horrible way, by an earthquake. Thankfully people all over the world have raised millions of dollars that, of course, can’t make up for all the human losses but it can still improve the quality of life for the people in Haiti. With a death toll at about 200,000 and with yet another 1.5 million people homeless they really need all the help they can get. It makes me happy to see that some web host’s have decided to help out as well. Hostgator has donated $100,000, GoDaddy $500,000 and SingleHop has contributed with $10,000. I hope to see more web hosting providers making contributions to help out the one’s affected in Haiti.

Youtube, who made a name for themselves by offering free streaming videos, made a step, although small, towards the rental market. They have a long way to go before they will be able to compete on the same level as Netflix but it’s still an important step that is well worth noticing.

At the moment Youtube, who is owned by Google, will begin with only offering five movies and they are not of the blockbuster type. They are not even old forgotten classics. They are something much better – at least according to a movie geek like me. The films that will be up for rental are part of this year’s, or was part of last year’s, Sundance Film Festival so expect something that is a bit more independent than say Avatar. You’d better be quick if you want to try out this service as the movies will be available for a limited period, from Friday 22nd to the end of the Festival which is January 31.

It’ll be interesting to see how this service gets received by the users. If a success I guess that Google will put even more efforts into getting the full version launched as soon possible. Youtube has already held discussions with many of the major studios so in the future I guess that it will be possible to watch all your favorite Mel Gibson movies as well and not only the ones made by directors with unpronounceable names.

This Tuesday Google threatened to shut down all of their operations in the People’s Republic of China. The reason is that they discovered a very advanced cyber attack against Chinese human rights activists.

According to Google, Chinese “cyber spies” hit the company, along with at least 20 other companies whose identity has not been revealed. The purpose of the attack apparently was to gain access to email accounts belonging to activists all over the world.

The company said that they now are looking over their business in China and that they’ve made the decision to no longer filter search results in China.

Many bloggers claim that Google’s filter in China already is long gone, or at least that it’s gotten a lot softer. When searching for the Tiananmen Square while in China you apparently get a much broader set of results than you used to.

China is still to respond to the threats made by Google. The Chinese authorities are “looking for more information” regarding the alleged attacks, according to a Chinese official.

What can one make out of all this? It’s difficult since Google once in a time agreed to allow very strange censorships, at least according to me, in China but I think it’s a good thing that they now finally decided to take a stand against pointless ruling by “Big Brother”. What do you say? What’s the best thing Google can do now?