See-Through Computer Monitors

Transparent Screens on Flickr
And a french site, Mac Bidoille (Huh, that means "Mac Do-it-yourselfing.")

At Slashdot, I read, "Looks like the amusement factor of 'transparent' screen backgrounds is getting bigger and bigger. The french Mac fan site Mac Bidouille opened up a dedicated part of their web site where fans can post shots of their transparent backgrounds."

At first I thought, "Transparent screenshots? You mean, so it looks like you're looking right inside your monitor, and you see all the vaccuum tubes and diodes and flux capacitors? Well, that's all right, but why would lots of people be getting into that? I mean, once you've seen the internal workings of a few monitors, doesn't it get old?"

I was mistaken, because of being a moran! You don't look through the screen into the insides of your monitor! You look through the monitor entirely, at your neighbor walking by! Or at least, it LOOKS like you do.

One day we'll really have computer monitors that are made of force-fields, and you can look right through them. But for now, we'll have to just pretend.

If I did this, I would have a screenshot of a blank wall. Exciting!