A maddeningly “simple” puzzle where you try to cover a big red circle with five smaller circles. It can be done…but not by me…yet. LINK→
I’m familiar with the usual slate of colors available in most graphics program palettes from White Smoke to Midnight Blue, and the so-called web-safe colors, etc., but I’ve never heard of a lot of these colors! Willow Brook, Marigold Yellow, Bridal Heath, Verdun Green, Cotton Candy, Lunar Hue, Torea Bay, Riptide, Mona Lisa, Ripe Lemon and on and on. This site has a nice little web app that lets you browse through over 1500 colors that were gleaned from Wikipedia, Crayola, and Color-Name Dictionaries like Resene. It provides a standard color wheel, color swatch, hex and RGB values as well as a dropdown list so you can pick colors by name. A nice resource for those who need all the help they can get when it comes to colors—like me! LINK→
An astonishing video of Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger skydiving from an altitude of 102,800 feet (19.5 miles). This is a video for the Boards of Canada song Dayvan Cowboy but the first couple minutes are actual footage from Kittinger’s amazing jump.
This is a screen capture from the last scene (almost the last frame) of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Family. The quality isn’t that great and you can only barely make out the beautiful shooting star that arcs through the scene, but I’ve always loved this final shot. The last line of dialog spoken in the episode is: “Let him dream…”
From The Mothman Prophecies
- John Klein: Last week my friend got a strange phone call…from an entity…a spirit, whatever. It seemed to know everything.
- Alexander Leek: Like God? It made predictions that came true?
- John Klein: Yes. His name was Indrid Cold.
- Alexander Leek: It’s perception,John. They appear differently to everyone. A voice, a light, a man, a monster. If your friend thinks it’s God he spoke to, he’s off by more than a few degrees.
- John Klein: Then how do you explain that it knows everything?
- Alexander Leek: Look at that. If there was a car crash blocks away, that window washer could likely see it. That doesn’t mean he’s God…or even smarter than we are. But from where he’s sitting…he can see a little further down the road.
- John Klein: I think we can assume that…these entities are more advanced than us. Why don’t they just come right out and tell us what’s on their minds?
- Alexander Leek: You’re more advanced than a cockroach. Have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them?
Opera 9.5 (codename Kestrel) arrives for public consumption tomorrow (09.04.2007) in alpha form. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this release and hope that they produce an x64 version for Windows (I’ve only heard of x64 versions for *nix planned so far). Opera is easily the best, most polished browser on the planet and has been for quite some time. This new release promises to cement that reputation. LINK→
Shoes on my hands,
I walk the night sky—stumbling
Sometimes on stars.
— Kenneth M. Batchelor, The Pale Stars of Dawn