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Elsewhere for June 24th through June 26th

Posted in elsewhere on June 26th, 2009 by Tony – Be the first to comment

These are my delicious links for June 24th through June 26th:

  • Touched by an Angel – The story of how the Farah Fawcett poster came to be.

    "…t may be the most famous pinup poster of all time. Farrah Fawcett's smile is a row of impossibly white teeth so perfectly aligned they look machine-made, her hair a windblown blond tangle that swallows her slender hand.
    Then there is her nipple: a salacious nub straining against the nylon of her red one-piece. Its appearance marked the advent of "nippling." Whenever a model applies ice to her breast before a photo shoot, she's paying homage to Farrah….."

  • The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star – As professionals, we prefer logo, logotype, mark, symbol, wordmark, icon, visual identity or signature. With this many choices it is no wonder others have settled on the irreverent bug. Incidentally, a long-time friend in Mumbai told me of some of the general names for logo in India include pintu (pint sized), chintu (tiny), dabboo (fat) and kaka (small one). (But depending on the specific region, language and even community in India, kaka also can mean poo-poo, as elsewhere. I guess context is everything, when calling a logo kaka in India.)

    But whether we designed it, manage it, or just live with it, having a name for the logo appears to fulfill some human need. Some companies provide a formal name, such as The Monogram (GE). Here are a few logos and their officially sanctioned names:

  • How many colors? Wrong. – Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen.
  • Fun with a spray-gun, a field and perspective. – Nice project, doing POV Perspective on a field, the photos are quite nice.
  • Volcano from Space; or how I would kill a man to stay in the ISS for a bit. – A chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.
  • 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance – Nettuts+ –

Elsewhere for January 27th through January 28th

Posted in elsewhere on January 29th, 2009 by Tony – Be the first to comment

These are my delicious links for January 27th through January 28th:

  • CSS Font Stacks – A compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes. Defintely not the Dreamweaver defaults you see all over the place. This is a good list.
  • [ws] Color Scheme Designer – This is great, easily find out your mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic color schemes.
  • Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid – A good demo page showing a fluid 16 column grid, in conjuction with mooTools.
  • The Milky Way Over Mauna Kea – Stunning photo. I remember as a kid being able to see the Milky Way back at my grandfathers house back in the woods. I wish the light pollution today wasn't so bad, and that this was a more common sight.

Elsewhere for October 30th

Posted in elsewhere on October 30th, 2008 by Tony – Be the first to comment

These are my delicious links for October 30th:

Elsewhere for September 30th

Posted in elsewhere on September 30th, 2008 by Tony – Be the first to comment

These are my delicious links for September 30th:

All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

Posted in Cool, Culture, Design, Fun, Reference on April 23rd, 2008 by Tony – Be the first to comment

Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver.

Aaron at ColorSchemer.com created a fun list of all 120 Crayon Colors with their hex codes and RGB values.  COLOURlovers reproduced this list along with several fun facts.

“the scent of Crayola crayons is among the 20 most recognizable to American adults. Coffee and peanut butter are 1 and 2.”

“Crayola crayon colour names rarely change. However, there are exceptions. In 1958, Prussian blue was changed to midnight blue in response to teacher recommendations that children could no longer relate to Prussian history. In 1962, the colour flesh was changed to peach recognizing that not everyone’s flesh is the same shade.”

But the real gem of this article is the color and hex listing.  Midnight blue (formerly Prussian blue) is the hex code of: #1A4876.   Peach (formerly flesh) is #FFCFAB.

What a great list.