Click and Drag, the amazing xkcd cartoon that went online a few days ago, was fascinating and threw me back to the worlds I used to explore when I was a kid (through videogames obviously).
I selected a few places and made 1920x1080 captures to use as wallpapers for my 24” monitor. They’re clean, not distracting, and inspirationals (the one I use as a backdrop for my writing is The Cave).
I put them here if anybody else wants to use them as well (you can rescale them to fit your desktop as long as it’s 16:9 like mine, otherwise something will get chopped off).
I hope Randall is cool about this.
Wallpaper #6: Trees and Rocket 1
Wallpaper #7: Trees and Rocket 2
technical bits
To create your own wallpapers just go to this scrollable/zoomable view of the Click and Drag world: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de. Grab what you like, maybe do some stitching like I did for the The Boat using Pixelmator (because the giant squid was really deeper down in the ocean), and resize/rescale them for your screen size. To create the thumbnails down here I used this bash line (only works under OS X because it relies on sips to resize the image):
for f in xkcd*.png; do cp $f $f.SMALL.PNG; sips -Z 600 $f.SMALL.PNG; done
If you are an even bigger nerd then you may want to take a look at this: https://github.com/danielribeiro/xkcd_grab.