Archive for July, 2005
I came across this neat tool that lets you simulate what a website would look like to a color blind person. What’s cool is that it will process images too. Colorblind Filter. This site has a web safe color chart that also incorporates a mini-chart that shows what those same colors would look like to a (certain type of) color blind person.
I’ve always wondered if we are able to communicate about colors in a empiric way. Being colorblind is a pretty serious alteration of the spectrum, but what if every person’s color understanding was skewed just a little bit? What one person might see as red might look orange to another person. But since we have all been brought up with the same labelling system for colors, we would call it the same name nonetheless. One particular thing that I always fight about is the color of the middle light on a traffic light (USA) - i call it orange. Most other people I know call it yellow. What’s the deal with that?
And it is very easy to alter your color perception - cover one eye for a few minutes (so it is in darkness). Then uncover the eye and look through only left, then only right. I find this creates some fairly significant color shifts in my vision.
Next question : what is the limits of our visual perception? What color is right before a ‘color’ or wavelength we cant see? What if some people have a wider range of wavelength that they can see?
July 11th, 2005
If only I were as lucky as these guys when I was younger and got to screw around with high power lasers with the Mythbusters supervising! Jamie and Adam RULE! Where can I get a Mythbusters shirt?
Click to Buy a “Reject Your Reality” shirt here!
July 8th, 2005
It’s nice having cheap-ass $10 plastic sunglasses when they fall off the 8th floor. The lenses pop right back in!
July 7th, 2005
While Firefox is annoying like this:
Safari has its own annoyances too - the file browser for uploading etc doesnt refresh each time you use it - so new files dont appear. I’ve always got to stick my file into a new place for it to appear - great for stray files. Poor things will end up in the pound.
July 6th, 2005
I want a pair of Shure E3c Earbuds . I am quite tired of the crap sound quality of the earbuds supplied with the ipod. I just can’t get my groove on as well if the bottom end is all muffled and flat. Blergh. I’d wear my huge honkin’ Sony Studio Monitors, but they’d be a tad hot here in Hawaii. AAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHH FFFAAAAAHHHHKIIIING FIREFOX GRRRRRRRfgh
July 6th, 2005
Why or how my coworker (a DIFFERENT one!) is ending up playing the same Gwen Stefani song over and over forever is beyond me. It’s very puzzling to me. But mainly it’s just really annoying!
July 6th, 2005
Another TCM night in Honolulu. After shampooing our carpet with our Kirby vac, we chilled out to Forbidden Planet … “Monsters from the ID…” and then The Invisible Boy. Village of the Damned is up next, based on John Wyndham’s Midwych Cuckoos which is enjoyed immensely. He is also the author of another of my faves, The Day of the Triffids. I’m looking forward to Johnny Depp in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Looks good - Tim Burton and Depp doing Ed Wood were awesome…
July 5th, 2005
Walter’s family is holding a yard sale, but there are few customers. Walter, farting contentedly near Father, wonders why. When a man offers ten dollars for Walter, Father readily agrees. Walter wonders why. Walter is sad to leave his family behind but relieved to discover that his new owner is a clown. Walter figures he will help the clown bring joy to children on their birthdays. But the clown has a dastardly plot: he will use Walter’s gas to inflate balloons and then pop them to stun guards during bank robberies. Will Walter turn to the dark side? Of course not! He comes out a hero and is reunited with his family by doing what he does best
By William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray
July 2nd, 2005
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