Since Mac OS X replaced the Classic Mac OS, nothing has galled users more than the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, also known as the “I’m thinking, but I’m thinking in rainbow colors!” icon. Ask your Mac for more than it wants to handle at a given moment, watch as your precious pointer becomes a useless spinning beachball.Dutch artist Gijs Gieske has taken that icon of Mac frustration and turned it into a giant work of art to remind us all how much easier our lives could be, although he claims he made it “for no particular reason.” Just look at it — it’s like staring into hell…
Dutch Artist Builds Actual Spinning Beachball of Death
4 responses to “Dutch Artist Builds Actual Spinning Beachball of Death”
Why?? Oh god, Why??
Um, I believe it’s called the rainbow pizza of death, thank you very much.
Also, any idea how I can make that soundtrack play each time I startup my iMac?
I always love feeling like I want to stab myself in the ear with a sharp object.