Everyone loves a psychotic supercomputer, especially when it comes with some lovely graphic design. The HAL project has opened stage 2, a beautiful letterbox website devoted to 2001′s HAL 9000 showcasing the graphic displays, typography and even providing sound clips of the killing machine’s soothing tones.

The big news is the screensaver, now you too can have HAL 9000 on your desktop or laptop. Is your webcam reading your lips? You’ll never feel safe again…

Thanks to Martin for the link, you have made me a very happy man.

Download the PicLens plugin for Firefox and take your image searching full screen. A small button gets added to your browser bar and when you click it you get a beautiful fullscreen wall of the images on that page. You can even image search directly from PicLens by typing in the search field. The results get added to the wall as they download, making an ever growing scrolling display which is fun to play with even if it doesn’t return what you’re after…