Two Links

If you work on web sites and you're graphically-challenged, as I am, you'll appreciate this:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler/

It's a color theme suggester. If you want to know which colors go with which, or need some inspiration, this is the tool.

Just last week I consulted a graphics person because a web site I was working on looked goofy. My resource gave me some tips that helped. Next time, I can just use Kuler.

On a different theme, Shorpy is a site that presents images of working people and their life. It's named for Shorpy Higginbotham, a child mine-worker from the early 1900s.

This photo caught my eye.

Happy π Day

So, credit where credit is due, the woman who served me at Peet's this morning had a little Post-It that she was flashing at customers she thought would get it that said:

Happy π Day.

Very clever, I thought.

Coincidentally there's the πo'clock coffee club here at work that meets every so often at 3:14 for coffee.

But even more clever is the π clock .








Mac owners, you get a widget, PC users can just smile.

Reason #238 why the Onion can close up shop.

Thanks to the BBC for this:

Halliburton, the oil services company formerly headed by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is moving its headquarters from Texas to Dubai.

Ya can't make this stuff up. Or more correctly, you don't need to make this stuff up.

Quick. Before Apple sees it