Sorry, I had to post this, it’s Friday. Cassetteboy is a bloody genius. If you’ve seen it before, watch it again, then check out the others on his site.

The announcement you may have missed from yesterday’s Macworld Expo!

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This is genius, a site which looks exactly like Microsoft Windows XP, so you can read other stuff while you’re at work. Choose from short stories, poetry, classics etc, all called up in a faux PowerPoint window. I think this is the only time I have been able to forgive a website for forcing fullscreen mode on me. Found through the very nice Very Short List

No good for Mac workplaces though. If slightly less cultured vintage games are your thing, check out The Macintosh Garden or the Little Green Desktop for similar GUI lookalikes.

Has anyone seen any other sites which look like operating systems?

This is Pixeloo’s idea of what Mario would look like in ‘real life’. Scary!

Check out his site where he talks about how he makes the images in Photoshop.

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Ever wondered what the title sequence to Star Wars would have been like if Saul Bass had done it? No? Well here’s the answer anyway:

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Someone’s busy removing Garfield from all the Jim Davis strips, and it turns out the remaining cartoons document the sad mental decline of Jon Arbuckle. In fact, was Garfield ever there? It’s kind of like the end of the Sixth Sense…

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