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  "title": "Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop",
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  "html": "<blockquote cite=\"http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html\">I've been thinking a bit about how the GUI for computer desktops could be improved so that it is possible to have more information available without cluttering the screen with windows and folders etc.</blockquote>\n\n<p><small style=\"text-align:right; display:block\">Source: <a href=\"http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html\">Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop</a></small></p>\n<p>I'm guessing Nova's never seen <a href=\"http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/\">Sphere XP</a>, which is a nifty but not quite useful spherical desktop manager for Windows.  Although, where Nova's talking about being <em>outside</em> the sphere and dealing with the surface, Sphere XP is about living <em>inside</em> the sphere and spinning around near the center.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087153\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://sporkmonger.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=56ee28134dd0776825445e3551979b14&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://sporkmonger.com\">Bob Aman</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221087153\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T14:40:11\">2005-10-13T14:40:11</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I'm highly partial to my \"cubic\" desktop manager - the unimaginatively named \"Desktop Manager\" for OS X.  Set the switch transition to cube, and now you have all the desktop space you could possibly want on a \"cube.\"</p>\n<p>But I'm guessing most of us are already aware of its existence, since it tends to be among the very first programs placed upon the disk of any new Powerbook.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "<blockquote cite=\"http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html\">I've been thinking a bit about how the GUI for computer desktops could be improved so that it is possible to have more information available without cluttering the screen with windows and folders etc.</blockquote><small style=\"text-align:right; display:block\">Source: <a href=\"http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2005/10/the_desktop_20.html\">Minding the Planet: The Spherical Desktop</a></small>\r\n\r\nI'm guessing Nova's never seen [Sphere XP][sxp], which is a nifty but not quite useful spherical desktop manager for Windows.  Although, where Nova's talking about being *outside* the sphere and dealing with the surface, Sphere XP is about living *inside* the sphere and spinning around near the center.\r\n\r\n[sxp]: http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221087153\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://sporkmonger.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=56ee28134dd0776825445e3551979b14&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://sporkmonger.com\">Bob Aman</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221087153\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T14:40:11\">2005-10-13T14:40:11</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I'm highly partial to my \"cubic\" desktop manager - the unimaginatively named \"Desktop Manager\" for OS X.  Set the switch transition to cube, and now you have all the desktop space you could possibly want on a \"cube.\"</p>\r\n\r\n<p>But I'm guessing most of us are already aware of its existence, since it tends to be among the very first programs placed upon the disk of any new Powerbook.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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