I believe Beauty is one of designers staple mega-weapons and I wholly agree with this websites featured article:

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When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching perspectives we would never have explored otherwise. We have collected hundreds of wallpapers already (see links below). In this post we would like to focus on wallpapers which emphasize the variety and beauty of nature.

This post showcases 50 remarkable nature desktop wallpapers. This post covers various themes and subjects; we have included both photographic and artistic (photo-manipulated) wallpapers. Hopefully, everybody will find something from himself / herself.

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Here are some of my favorites

Then of course there is nature in space if you will...

 Hey..  I know they are wall papers and not icons web templates etc, but you have to take inspiration from somewhere!!

Link to article here

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The departure of Gates, who will remain the company's non- executive chairman, coincides with an escalating rivalry with Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and other competitors who are using the Internet to chip away at Microsoft's software dominance.

With Gates taking a step back, the weight of Microsoft's future falls squarely on Ballmer's shoulders.

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"Microsoft just hasn't come up with anything all that innovative," said Andrew Loechl, director at Eagle Harbor Asset Management. "It's been buying up companies left and right for years, but it has not come up with anything internally."

WHO NEEDS INNOVATION WHEN YOU'VE GOT CHARM!?!