Origin of colour-trends

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"Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses..."

"Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses..." 06/02/2004 04:49 PM

Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs 06/01/2004 05:45 AM
This week's Carnival of the Capitalists .. Small Business Trends

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RFC for origin of "foo"

RFC for origin of "foo" 01/04/2004 09:37 PM
Noting that hundreds of Internet RFCs "contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition," this old April Fools RFC examines the roots of Foo, Bar and fubar.

For, it seems, the word `foo' itself had an immediate prewar history in comic strips and cartoons. In the 1938 Warner Brothers cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, "The Daffy Doc", a very early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "SILENCE IS FOO!" `FOO' and `BAR' also occurred in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" strips. The earliest documented uses were in the surrealist "Smokey Stover" comic strip by Bill Holman about a fireman. This comic strip appeared in various American comics including "Everybody's" between about 1930 and 1952. It frequently included the word "FOO" on license plates of cars, in nonsense sayings in the background of some frames such as "He who foos last foos best" or "Many smoke but foo men chew", and had Smokey say "Where there's foo, there's fire". Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other

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The origin of one nation under god

The origin of one nation under god 10/30/2003 12:36 AM
Letter From America, The pledge of allegiance "...such was the fear of the time that from Moscow to Asia "godless...

Origin of the word bug

Origin of the word bug 04/23/2004 07:07 PM
Edison, the Man was made in 1940, in it, I have a recollection that a machine stops working because 'there...

Tim Bray On The Origin Of XML

Tim Bray On The Origin Of XML 03/19/2005 02:33 AM

Origin of the terms "BCE/CE" for dates?

Origin of the terms "BCE/CE" for dates? 07/12/2004 02:42 AM

A friend who blames Jews for all of the ills that he perceives in American society asked me if it was a Jew who started using "BCE" ("Before the Common Era" rather than BC or "Before Christ") for dates of events that occurred more than 2004 years ago.  Being a scientist and engineer he had only recently come across this coinage and was convinced that it part of a contemporary Jewish plot to deestablish Christianity as America's default religion.

My response was that I believed BCE/CE instead of BC/AD was a bit of 19th century academic pedantry.  I remember seeing the term on yellowed labels next to objects in museums that had been gathering dust for 50+ years.  Given that Jews had only recently escaped from their ghettos in the 19th century and that most classics or Bible scholars would have come from wealthier families, I thought it highly unlikely that a Jew coined the term.  Most likely I thought it was Christian scholars who wished to employ a bit of jargon to make their professional work appear more scientific.  The only etymological reference that I could find was this Word IQ article, that talks about the appearance of the term "Common Era" in a 1908 encyclopedia published by the Roman Catholic Church.

Anyone have a better source for settling this question?  The Oxford English Dictionary and first Supplement don't contain "BCE" or "Common Era".

Eclipse ED doesn't know origin of
group's name

Eclipse ED doesn't know origin of
group's name 07/27/2004 02:39 AM
Imagine, if you will for a moment, that the recently-appointed executive director of Eclipse doesn't know how Eclipse came to get its name. Nonsense, you say. But that's just what Mike Milinkovich told me during my interview with him for...

U.S., Canada at Odds Over Mad Cow Origin

U.S., Canada at Odds Over Mad Cow Origin 12/27/2003 06:43 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 27 2003 6:42PM ET

IHT: Language: What's the origin of
izzle? It's eezy

IHT: Language: What's the origin of
izzle? It's eezy 09/18/2004 01:35 PM
his recent column on the origin of the suffix "-izzle"

iht.com/articles/538409.html
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everlasting blort - a question of origin

everlasting blort - a question of origin 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

Origin of 'HIV cancer' identified

Origin of 'HIV cancer' identified 07/03/2004 07:47 PM
A virus 'reprogrammes' cells in the lining of the lymph vessels and turns them cancerous, scientists have found.

Dialog Origin Spoofing Vulnerability

Dialog Origin Spoofing Vulnerability 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

Secunia Research has discovered this security vulnerability in several web browsers, including Safari and Internet Explorer on Mac. The vulnerability “…can be exploited by malicious web sites to spoof dialog boxes. The problem is that JavaScript dialog boxes do not display or include their origin, which allows a new window to open e.g. a prompt dialog box, which appears to be from a trusted site. Successful exploitation normally requires that a user is tricked into…

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Electronic Arts' Origin Issue

Electronic Arts' Origin Issue 06/07/2004 10:40 AM
The game giant no longer operates in Austin, though the city's game legacy is still strong.

Titan May Improve Origin Of Life
Equation

Titan May Improve Origin Of Life
Equation 01/06/2005 04:42 AM
NASA's Huygens probe will enter the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, to perform experiments that may help Origin Of Life ("OOL") investigators. OOL science provides attractive though so-far incomplete questions about and answers to the building blocks of cell life. [PRWEB Jan 6, 2005]

Apple's iPod Shuffle At The Origin Of A
Price War

Apple's iPod Shuffle At The Origin Of A
Price War 02/01/2005 09:36 PM

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Atos Origin to deliver Olympics to the
world

Atos Origin to deliver Olympics to the
world 04/17/2004 12:54 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Apr 17 2004 5:18AM GMT

Colour Schemes

Colour Schemes 05/14/2004 03:13 PM

A designer's 'style' is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results.

Technical

A 'technical' method of colour-selection involves choosing one or two dominant colours from the colour wheel, to be used with a small set of complementary colours. Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary and triadic colour schemes offer a wide range of variation, particularly when you start throwing in shades, tints, and saturation adjustments.

Pro: An easy way to start with good, workable colour. Con: being too technical can lead to dull and uninspired colour choice.

Matching

Matching involves starting with an image or an object (usually a photograph) and picking colours from within to generate a colour scheme. Boxes and Arrows ran a great article a while ago about selecting colours from nature.

Pro: Naturalistic, familiar-feeling colour schemes that appeal. Con: it's easy to select the wrong colours from a photo.

Intuition

Probably my most frequently-used method. I begin with a blank canvas and fill it with whatever colours seem appropriate. Naturally my mind computes the corresponding compliementary and similar colours on the fly, but now and then I'll ignore solid colour theory just to see where it gets me. Hence this site's colour scheme, among others.

Pro: Fresh and surprising colour schemes. Con: dangerous without a solid knowledge of colour theory. Dangerous even with.

These are a few of my own methods, and what influences my design sensibility. Others will differ, of course. Tell me about your own methods, comments are open.

Colour & Computers

Colour & Computers 10/07/2004 04:11 PM

Acme-Colour-1.02

Acme-Colour-1.02 09/21/2004 11:00 AM

Acme-Colour-1.01

Acme-Colour-1.01 05/14/2004 04:41 PM

"the origin of the Washington Post's
shoddy Iraq coverage"

"the origin of the Washington Post's
shoddy Iraq coverage" 06/29/2004 08:19 PM

Spreading Sasser Computer Worm Might
Have Origin In Russia

Spreading Sasser Computer Worm Might
Have Origin In Russia 05/05/2004 01:57 PM
Radio Free Europe May 5 2004 6:27PM GMT

Martinez Staff Probes Memo Origin
(washingtonpost.com)

Martinez Staff Probes Memo Origin
(washingtonpost.com) 04/10/2005 05:27 PM
"Martinez staff probes memo origin." .. stated

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Colour photographs of Russia

Colour photographs of Russia 01/22/2004 06:15 PM
Colour photographs of Russia , pre-World War I. Very beautiful. Lots of churches, gardens, and people. via /dev/null.

"What's your Pantone Birthday Colour?"

"What's your Pantone Birthday Colour?" 04/24/2004 09:13 PM

gcc-m6809 for the TRS-80 Colour Computer

gcc-m6809 for the TRS-80 Colour Computer 07/06/2004 06:27 PM
Note to beretta42

Colour Bland: Contrast

Colour Bland: Contrast 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
This is the continuation of a series. View previous. Greyscale is only one method of removing colour from an image, and as it turns out, it's an unrealistic way of doing it. The term colour-blind is misleading - almost...

"What's your Pantone birthday colour? >"

"What's your Pantone birthday colour? >" 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Colour number 10 is brilliant

Colour number 10 is brilliant 11/15/2003 08:59 PM
Photos by Matt Stuart - the weird and wonderful around London.

Cassini Flyby Gives Clues to Origin of
Saturn’s Moon Phoebe

Cassini Flyby Gives Clues to Origin of
Saturn’s Moon Phoebe 06/16/2004 01:50 AM

Cassini Flyby Gives Clues to Origin of
Saturn's Moon Phoebe

Cassini Flyby Gives Clues to Origin of
Saturn's Moon Phoebe 06/18/2004 01:38 AM

Atos origin wins major German
outsourcing deal

Atos origin wins major German
outsourcing deal 09/06/2004 06:59 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 6 2004 11:36AM GMT

Colour-coded mugs that tell you when
there's enough milk

Colour-coded mugs that tell you when
there's enough milk 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Cory Doctorow: British designer Onkar Singh Kular has created a series of ingenious household objects, including a self-leveling picture frame with a spirit level embedded in it and a pair of socks with an extra thrown in against sock disappearance incidents. Best of all are these "Pantone" mugs whose colours correspond to a specific ratio of milk-to-tea -- you know you've added enough milk once the colours match. Link (Thanks, Joy!)

Colour laser printers = commodity

Colour laser printers = commodity 09/07/2004 10:54 AM
Prices plunge

Bald is now a hair colour (Reuters)

Bald is now a hair colour (Reuters) 06/10/2004 04:18 PM
Reuters - In America's rugged West, a cowboy can still mask a thinning hairline under a hat, but today's outdoor sports enthusiast may have to admit to being bald.

Artist captures campaign colour

Artist captures campaign colour 04/15/2005 10:06 AM
David Godbold prepares to share the highs and lows of the campaign trail as the official 2005 election artist.

HP lays out the colour carpet for SMBs

HP lays out the colour carpet for SMBs 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:32PM GMT

AU colour laser market rising: IDC

AU colour laser market rising: IDC 05/18/2004 12:08 AM
ZDNet Australia May 18 2004 4:13AM GMT
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BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent?

BitTorrent is dead. Long live
BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 01:38 PM
ZDNet Jan 5 2005 5:09PM GMT

Hooked up in the sky

Hooked up in the sky 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 9:19PM GMT

Net phoning hooked up

Net phoning hooked up 12/11/2003 08:34 AM
USA Today Dec 11 2003 7:45AM ET

Hooked on bl0gosphere

Hooked on bl0gosphere 07/13/2004 03:48 AM
She's here. We eat breakfast. We talk. We gaze deeply into each other's eyes. We hold hands. We do all the things that people infatuated with each other do.

And we read blogs on the laptop, while munching on the cereals, trying not to drench the keyboard completely in milk.

Are we geeks or what? :-D

Why I'm Hooked on Virgin Mobile

Why I'm Hooked on Virgin Mobile 11/14/2003 04:08 PM
Business Week Nov 14 2003 3:06PM ET

Internet hooked by 'Phishers'

Internet hooked by 'Phishers' 08/02/2004 10:17 PM
Information Highways Aug 3 2004 2:50AM GMT

New Kanguru Slim FC-RW can be hooked to
TV, more

New Kanguru Slim FC-RW can be hooked to
TV, more 08/27/2004 02:02 PM
Kanguru Solutions announced on Thursday its new US$249.95 Kanguru Slim FC-RW, an update to the original Kanguru FC-RW that's smaller than its predecessor and can now connect to a TV for use as a DVD player or to a computer for use as a DVD-ROM drive. It also adds a disc spanning feature that enables burning the contents of Flash cards larger than 1GB to multiple CDs. Like the original Kanguru FC-RW, the new drive accepts eight types of Flash media -- CompactFlash Type I and II, IBM Micro Drive, Smart Media, Secure Digital, Sony Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro and Multimedia Cards -- and can burn their files to a CD without requiring a computer.

More Israelis hooked on Internet

More Israelis hooked on Internet 05/06/2004 02:22 PM
Jerusalem Post May 6 2004 6:54PM GMT

Cisco hooked to new generation network

Cisco hooked to new generation network 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
Calcutta Telegraph Mar 29 2005 11:03AM GMT

Studies Find Rats Can Get Hooked on
Drugs (AP)

Studies Find Rats Can Get Hooked on
Drugs (AP) 08/12/2004 04:36 PM
AP - Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same compulsive drive for cocaine as people do once they're truly hooked.

Seniors get hooked to Internet for cyber
love

Seniors get hooked to Internet for cyber
love 06/29/2004 11:56 PM
CHINAdaily Jun 30 2004 4:27AM GMT

Pilots on world's longest flight hooked
up to computers, activity watches to
monitor alertness

Pilots on world's longest flight hooked
up to computers, activity watches to
monitor alertness 06/29/2004 10:50 AM
AP via Newsday Jun 29 2004 1:43PM GMT

BitTorrent v4.0.1

BitTorrent v4.0.1 03/25/2005 09:08 PM
BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. [Freeware 3.6 MB]

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away

BitTorrent Will Not Go Away 03/17/2005 03:08 AM
There was an article I read in Yahoo News from the Washington Post on BitTorrents. It explains that too many legit uses exist for BitTorrent for the service to be shut down. The MPAA is admitting that there are good and bad uses for BitTorrent and that they will only go after people that are helping users to download illegal movies. It's good to see a mianstream media outlet like the Washington Post understand the real concept and design behind BitTorrents.

This represents a shift from previous practices, in which the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) and other groups have tried to have entire products -- for example, the first Diamond Rio MP3 player or the networked ReplayTV (news - web sites) video recorder -- taken off the market.One reason for this change of heart may be that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. Developers of versions of the Linux (news - web sites) operating system were some of the first to jump on BitTorrent as a way to ship out vast amounts of data. A Linux distribution can easily span four CD-ROMs; instead, companies such as Red Hat offer BitTorrent downloads of their work.

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet

No - 911 will not be available on
bittorrent - yet 05/27/2004 03:10 AM

The Doc Searls Weblog

Doc makes it very clear.  I just liked this story so much - I ran it anyway - but alas - it's true - it was fake....

Panning for gold in the bitstream 

Brian Dear says Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the Palme D'Or at Cannes, will be distributed via BitTorrent:

In a stunning move, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced today that his latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11", will be released by BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network.

From Brian's Denounce.com.

[Later...] Once again, we need to point out that Denounce is a satire site. Hence the name. Here's the disclaimer, from top right on the index page:

Recognized around the world as the best source for completely fictional news and information.

When you're not looking for a reliable, accurate site for industry news, there's only one place to go: Denounce.

All fake. All the time.

Founded in 1980. Eight years before The Onion. Deal with it.

BitTorrent++

BitTorrent++ 06/07/2004 04:32 AM
BT++ Back In Development

BitTorrent 4.0.1

BitTorrent 4.0.1 04/02/2005 12:57 AM
The key to cheap file distribution.

BitTorrent

BitTorrent 06/09/2004 10:03 PM
The new BitTorrent 3.4.2 for OS X has an all-new GUI that makes it easier to keep track of multiple downloads.

A new hope for BitTorrent?

A new hope for BitTorrent? 01/05/2005 08:14 AM
Unreleased Exeem could make BitTorrent more lawsuit-resistant, but questions remain.

Professional BitTorrent?

Professional BitTorrent? 08/31/2004 04:28 AM
A startup, Atzio, is now claiming that they have the first peer-to-peer internet platform for television, apparently ignoring something like BitTorrent. Of course, the technology can basically be described as... BitTorrent with copy protection (how innovative). Plus, they only allow a select group of clients to seed material on the network, making it less likely that people will bother to download the software to make it possible for all this P2P television distribution. The company's own website, amusingly, claims it's having trouble handling all the traffic from the news of their launch -- which might raise some concerns from a company telling the entertainment industry they can handle the distribution of large files in great demand. Still, you have to wonder how effective this sort of solution is. The whole point of their system is you want more people getting and redistributing the content, but then they throw in this copy protection, which is almost laughable considering the system doesn't work if people aren't copying from you while you're copying from others. Besides, if you're a content producer, why bother paying this startup (and I assume they want money) to put your content on their network, when it's easier to just create a torrent, and get it out there -- where a lot more people already have BitTorrent clients.

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.0.8 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010

Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT-0.010 06/25/2004 12:39 AM

BitTorrent t-shirt

BitTorrent t-shirt 06/29/2004 11:31 PM
There's now a BitTorrent t-shirt to complement your Buccaneer-American shirt.

Examining Bittorrent

Examining Bittorrent 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
Slashdot Dec 19 2004 2:12AM GMT

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent

Everything you ever wanted to know about
BitTorrent 07/04/2004 06:59 PM

I have used BitTorrent quite a bit and really like it's performance for those big downloads. If you are not up to speed on BitTorrent this Faq is the place to start. [BitTorrent Faq]

The BitTorrent Effect

The BitTorrent Effect 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
Wired News Dec 29 2004 2:44AM GMT

bittorrent is nice, but...

bittorrent is nice, but... 01/08/2004 08:18 PM

...there's always a 'but' isn't there?

I had attempted to use BitTorrent a couple of times before, but never spent more than a few minutes with it, not enough to understand what was going on. Yesterday night though, I gave it a little more time and some tips from Russ and Matt I could get it going. I had to adjust some settings, such as the bandwidth allocated for uploads, which defaulted at 12 KB/sec and immediately started to suck up my entire upload capability (I set it at 7 KB/sec). I chose a couple of files (three actually) and let it download overnight. This morning, things were well on their way, two files done, the remaining one halfway through. But then it hit me: my transfers are limited!

I have a 4GB transfer limit (as it's common here in Ireland) on my DSL connection. So now I have downloaded, in one day, over 1.5 GB of data, and still have 1 GB to go. Then, there's the uploaded data, which also counts. EEk! By the time the second transfer is finished I will have spent over 75% of my monthly bandwidth allotment. With 60% of the month still to go!

Damn. I want to go back to my good old days of DSL in the Bay Area, where I had a symmetric 768 KB/sec DSL connection, with no transfer limits, at $40 a month. Okay, that's not realistic. :) But on the other hand, until transfer limits are removed (or at least raised) here, I won't be able to do much with BitTorrent. Too bad.

And, btw, this clearly has to have an impact on broadband usage. Forget about BitTorrent specifically, other types of media transfers are also quite heavy, and having that sword hanging over your neck (the sword being whatever they charge per megabyte after you cross the transfer limit) users will be more likely to treat broadband as a kind of always-on modem, rather than as true broadband. Ireland is great, for technology in particular, but it definitely needs some serious improvements to both infrastructure and access to that infrastructure (see my post on mobile handset costs yesterday) to be truly competitive. There's a qualitative jump (both on the supplier and the consumer side of a market) that happens when connectivity is pervasive, always-on, fast, and relatively inexpensive, and Ireland isn't there yet. Here's hoping we won't have to wait much longer.

Reviving BitTorrent

Reviving BitTorrent 01/06/2005 12:27 AM
CNET Asia Jan 6 2005 4:47AM GMT

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11

How to Bittorrent Farenheit 9/11 07/08/2004 10:48 AM
Aliased BoingBoing reader "humboldt 11" provides instructions for obtaining a digital copy of Michael Moore's latest film:

1. download BIT TORRENT 3.4.2.exe (Link) and install
2. download Fahrenheit.911.CAM-POT(1).torrent (Li nk) on your desktop
3. open it with BitTorrent
4. start download
5. download "wrar330d.exe" (Link) open it
6. unpack the file "pot.911a.rar" in the CD1 file (as well as the "pot.911b.rar" in the CD2 file - this is why there are 36 parts on each desk. In order to assemble it, opening the file will automatically identify all the segments and put them together) this will create a "pot.911a" (and a "pot.911b") file
7. download "vlc-0.7.2-win32.exe" (Link) install
8. open "CD1.cue" from the "pot.911a" file

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Bittorrent marketplace

Bittorrent marketplace 04/10/2005 12:37 PM
Prodigem, a legal torrent site, has announced a marketplace that will let you upload a file and sell bittorrent access to it. So, if you had, say, a video of your band performing its hit "Download Me, Baby, and Then Why Doncha Set Me Free?" that you wanted to sell, you'd upload it to Prodigem Marketplace and slap a price on it. Prodigem takes 10% plus the PayPal fee and passes the rest on to you. It's DRM-free once you've downloaded it: It's just a file that you can redistribute as you see fit. And they're contemplating an interesting licensing...

Origin of colour-trends

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