Man in Purple Robe Leads Police on Chase (AP)

Grok Headline matches for Man in Purple Robe Leads Police on Chase (AP)

Bull Escapes, Leads Police on Wild Chase
(AP)

Bull Escapes, Leads Police on Wild Chase
(AP) 08/06/2004 06:55 PM
AP - A bull broke free from its trailer and led law enforcement officers on a wild chase 80-minute chase. No one was hurt in the pursuit Wednesday when the bull crashed through a chain-link fence, trampled some yards, spooked some residents and plowed into a few cars.

Owl Leads Twitchers on Wild Goose Chase
(Reuters)

Owl Leads Twitchers on Wild Goose Chase
(Reuters) 05/12/2004 11:08 AM
Reuters - Enthusiastic birdwatchers, still celebrating the discovery of rare storks in a Yorkshire village, could not believe their luck when they spotted a large owl perching on a telegraph pole.

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Olympus is offering two new colors of their m:robe MR-100 MP3 player—sort of. The front of the device is still the Knight-Rider-like red-on-black (of which, I must say, I am a fan). The back of the current models is white, but the new models will be available with backs in light pink and light blue. It's like those videos I used to stare at when I was a kid, where the cover girl was a studious bookworm by day but a crime-fighting whore at night. I may be getting some of the plot-points confused.

No idea if we'll get these models in America. I guess it depends on how well the MR-100 is selling, which is hard to augur considering Olympus misguidedly put all their marketting muscle into the MR-500.

2 new colours for the m:robe MR-100 [AkihabaraNews]

Elderly couple leads police on merry
hunt (Reuters)

Elderly couple leads police on merry
hunt (Reuters) 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
Reuters - An elderly Australian couple evaded police on a 1,400 mile journey by car and bus after setting off in protest when the wife was denied an extension of her driving license because of old age.

Scam trend leads to warning from police
about perils of Internet commerce

Scam trend leads to warning from police
about perils of Internet commerce 09/02/2004 06:18 AM
Dailyherald.com - Thu Sep 2, 09:03 am GMT

Leads.com Inc. Announces B2B Leads and
B2B Marketplace at Portal Site Entering
into the $105 Trillion B2B Market

Leads.com Inc. Announces B2B Leads and
B2B Marketplace at Portal Site Entering
into the $105 Trillion B2B Market 06/14/2004 02:07 AM
Our Telemarketing and Online Leads are no-call list approved and voice recorded. We have developed an online meta database to house leads and b2b exchange data in finance categories such as Mortgage - Real Estate - Insurance - Debt - Bankruptcy Credit Card - Time Share - Travel and development to have over 1000 b2b categories of leads. Affiliate sites include www.leads.com and www.buyerst.com [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

Seared without, purple within.

Seared without, purple within. 08/15/2004 08:02 AM
There are few disadvantages to living in Florence. Those that there are tend to be balanced out by the good stuff: a lack of real ale versus 80¢ espressos; the shops shutting for four hours at lunch against the saintly...

The Color Purple

The Color Purple 04/21/2004 02:03 AM
Tonight, as the U.S. election year news-churn moves to the question of whether Senator John Kerry deserved his several Purple Heart citations, it's time to explain military conventions to those who've never served. Blood pumping out from the human heart through arteries is oxygenated and bright red. On return (through veins) and having done its work, blood is bluer, plurplish. Harvesting the lungs' largess, the heart enriches and reddens it again, and sends it back out. You'll...

Purple and Green

Purple and Green 03/19/2005 03:24 AM

« Finns enjoying a walk out on the grasshopper-free ice in -20C weather thanks to St. Urho. »

Today is St. Patrick's Day but yesterday, yesterday was St. Urho's Day, both of which are goofy folklore that have metamorphosed into back-to-back drinking holidays. The only Urho people think of in Finland is the former president, Urho Kekkonen, not the guy who apparently drove the grasshoppers out of Finland in mid-winter and saved the grape harvest. I asked a bunch of people about St. Urho and every one said, "Kekkonen?". There's a statue of Urho in Minnesota where the dedication plate reads:

THE LEGEND OF ST. URHO

One of the lesser known, but extraordinary legends of ages past is the legend of St. Urho-Patron Saint of the Finnish vinyard workers.

Before the last glacial period wild grapes grew with abundance in the area now known as Finland. Archeologists have uncovered evidence of this scratched on the thigh bones of the gieant bears that once roamed northern Europe. The wild grapes were threatened by a plague of grasshoppers until St. Urho banished the lot of them with a few selected Finnish words.

In memory of this impressive demonstration of the Finnish language, Finnish people celebrate on March 16, the day before St. Patrick's day. It tends to serve as a reminder that St. Pat's day is just around the corner and is thus celebrated by squares at sunrise on March 16. Finnish women and children dressed in royal purple and nile green gather around the shores of the many lakes in Finland and chant what St. Urho chanted many years ago.

"HEINASIRKKA, HEINASIRKKA, MENETAALTA HIITEEN."
(Translated: "GRASSHOPPER, GRASSHOPPER, GO AWAY!")

Adult male, (people, not grasshoppers) dressed in green costumes gather on the hills overlooking the lakes, listen to the chant and then kicking out like grasshoppers, they slowly disappear to change costumes from green to purple. The celebration ends with singing and dancing polkas and schottisches and drinking grape juice, though these activities may occur in varying sequences. Color for the day is royal purple and nile green.

SULO HAVUMAKI

The only thing that's green and purple around this time of year is the vomit on the sidewalks. Honest. I found a paper online Ethnic Symbols: Their Role in Maintaining and Constructing Finnish American where the Finnish author tries in earnest to figure out what the American Finns are on about but fails.

Lastly, I will point out that the item St. Urho was ranked as the most controversial item on this list. St. Urho is the fictional Saint of the Finnish Americans who supposedly stopped an invasion of grasshoppers. It seems that there is great debate as to whether St. Urho should be considered a true symbol of Finnishness.

Finnishness? The only Urho these people think of is Kekkonen and he has a fountain. Not to mention where are the vinyards in Finland? In March? This has Hallmark Drinking Holiday written all over it. It is Finnish only in the 'hey, it's cold out, let's go drinking' aspect. :)

Another Finn in the US critques the whole St. Urho's thing which is pretty funny. There are also St. Urho's kitsch for those who really embrace the holiday. I nearly wet my pants reading the Ode to St. Urho which sounds more like some Irish brogue gone wrong more than Finnglish...

Ooksi kooksi coolama vee
Santia Urho is ta poy for me!
He sase out ta hoppers as pig as pirds.
Neffer peefor haff I hurd tose words!

He reely tolt tose pugs of kreen
Braffest Finn I effer seen
Some celebrate for St. Pat unt hiss nakes

He kot tall and trong from feelia sour
Unt ate kala moyakka effery hour.
Tat's why tat kuy could sase toes peetles
What krew as thick as chack bine neetles.

So let's give a cheer in hower pest vay
On Sixteenth of March, St. Urho's Tay.

And then, and then, and then...then there is the Urho carol which is tragic at best....

Urho Boy

(To the tune of Jingle Bells)

Dashing ‘cross the yard
With a pitchfork in one hand,
Urho sees his foe
Munching all his land.

Grapes both green and red
Falling from the vine,
Urho has to get those hoppers
Or there will be no wine.

Oh, Urho boy, Urho boy,
The bravest that we’ve seen
Use the sisu that you’ve got
To get those bugs of green.

Hey!

Urho boy, Urho boy,
Our future’s in your hands.
Stop those hoppers in their tracks
And save our mother land!

So, no, St. Urho's isn't Finnish, not in the least, but drinking holidays are always welcome around here so in that respect it might be adopted someday. And, for those Americans with their pictures taken in front of St. Urho's pub, I regret to inform you that it was named for Kekkonen. :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day :)

Purple Pilcrows

Purple Pilcrows 06/01/2004 04:17 AM
When everyone from Lauren to Aaron Swartz is whining at me to make the #-marks go away, I have to listen. I’ve adapted Simon Willison’s brilliant hack, and a couple of remarks are worth making...

Purple Or Blue?

Purple Or Blue? 04/04/2005 03:20 PM
We're getting a lot of email from fans commenting on the two shades of ROTS card-backs.

Dreaded Purple Master

Dreaded Purple Master 02/19/2004 08:49 AM

Purple Number Signs

Purple Number Signs 05/30/2004 12:09 AM
Until this weekend I’d never heard of “Purple Numbers” but they’ve been across the radar twice in the last day, first in some commentary by Chris Dent on the Atom-Identifier issue, then again over at Jonas Luster’s place. First I thought, why not? Then, why numbers?...

purple rain movieoke

purple rain movieoke 07/12/2004 02:25 PM
it helps that i know all the dialogue

Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone

Cadbury Trademarks The Color Purple, and
they're not alone 03/25/2005 11:52 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Rob says,

Because it's Easter, I find myself in the possession of a Cadbury chocolate product. What do I find on the back?

"Cadbury, ellipse device, dairy milk, the glass and a half device and THE COLOUR PURPLE are Cadbury Limited trademarks used under licence in New Zealand by Cadbury Confectionery Ltd."

All our purple are belong to Cadbury Confectionery Ltd.!

Link

Update: Kevin Fox sez

In regards to Cadbury trademarking the color purple, four years ago I was working as a boom operator on an independent film and noticed that the boom manufacturer, Mr.LongArm, had trademarked the color yellow. I thought it was funny enough to document. blog post (tangential), and photo.

MartinS in Germany says,

Check my compatriots: been there, done that. German Telecom also thinks they own the letter "T". Link one, Link two.

Thomas J. Brown says:

In addition to Cadbury trademarking the colour purple and Mr. LongArm trademarking the colour yellow, my mum used to work for an ad agency that held an account with McDonalds. They have specific shades of red and yellow that are trademarked. I've also heard tell that Mattel owns green (G.I. Joe) and pink (Barbie).

plinks - a purple numbers variant

plinks - a purple numbers variant 05/30/2004 02:54 AM

Via Tim Bray, I came across the concept of Purple Numbers. In a nutshell these are permalinks attached to every paragraph on a page which, to paraphrase Tim, make every paragraph on a page a first-class Web citizen.

That's a very worthy concept, but the implementations I've seen have so far failed to inspire me. First of all, while the ability to link to any paragraph on a page is useful, the links themselves are either ugly, distracting or both. While reading Tim's entry I found myself mentally pausing after each paragraph: probably because I'm used to the purple # marks on Scripting News and other such sites designating the end of an entry. They're also extra cruft in my markup.

So, my ideal purple numbers implementation would minimise markup pollution and visual clutter.

Another issue with purple numbers is permanency: they're absolutely no good if they don't stay as true permalinks. This rules out naively generating them on the fly when a page is outputted as future edits to an article could result in links targetting different paragraphs entirely. Instead, the links (in the form of id attributes on paragraph tags) need to be assigned when the content is created. If additional paragraphs are later added to the content they should be numbered in such a way as not to intefere with the original paragraph links, which I shall call plinks for the sake of brevity.

We'll ignore the issue of visual clutter for the moment: let's look instead at how plinks can be introduced without polluting the markup of my pages. While the IDs that form the target of the links are a critical part of the structure of the page, the actual links are something of a convenience for people who don't want to dig through my source code looking for IDs and are unaware of the various bookmarklets that can reveal them (such as Jesse Ruderman's named anchors). As such, I don't see the links as a critical part of the page content, so I have no qualms whatsoever about appending them to the page using JavaScript after the page has loaded. Here's the function I'm using:

function addpLinks() {
  var paras = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
  for (var i = 0; i < paras.length; i++) {
    var current = paras[i];
    if (/^p-/.test(current.id)) {
      // It's a purple link paragraph
      var plink = document.createElement('a');
      plink.href = document.location.href.split('#')[0] + 
        '#' + current.id;
      plink.className = 'plink';
      plink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' #'));
      current.appendChild(plink);
    }
  }
}

The function iterates over every paragraph on the page looking for paragraphs with an id that starts with "p-", my chosen format for plink IDs. When it finds one, it creates a new link using the DOM and assigns it an href attribute which is the base URL of the current page (not including any existing fragment identifier) with a # and the paragraph's ID appended on the end.

My plinks all have a class of "plink", which allows me to style them. This is where I can reduce the visual clutter on the page as much as possible. Consider the following:

p a.plink {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #c8a8ff;
  display: none;
}
p:hover a.plink {
  display: inline;
}

In an ideal world this would make the links invisible until the mouse cursor was positioned over the containing paragraph. Unfortunately, IE for Windows only honors the :hover pseudo-selector when it is applied to links. I'd like IE users to have at least a chance of discovering my plinks, so I came up with this:

p a.plink {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #fff; /* the page background colour */
}
p:hover a.plink, p a:hover.plink {
  color: #c8a8ff;
}

The plinks are initially invisible by virtue of having the same colour as the page background. In browsers that support :hover on paragraphs, they become visible (by changing colour) when the mouse hovers over the paragraph. In browsers that only support :hover on links, they become visible when the mouse hovers over the links. Sure, they're a lot harder to find but I see it as an easter egg for IE users. Another example of MOSe in action.

There are a couple of more pieces to the puzzle. Firstly, adding all of those IDs to those paragraph tags is the kind of task that humans avoid and computers thrive on. Now I could automate this in my CMS, but I'm not in the mood for PHP at the moment so I've automated it in a bookmarklet instead: Add plink IDs (drag to your bookmarks). The bookmarklet will look inside any textareas on the current page and add an ID to every paragraph, provided it's a simple <p>. It's something of a quick hack but it does the job. Here's the bookmarklet code expanded to show how it works:

javascript:(function() {
  var tas = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
  for (var i = 0; i < tas.length; i++) {
    var ta = tas[i];
    var text = ta.value.replace('<p>', function() {
      if (typeof arguments.callee.counter == 'undefined') {
        arguments.callee.counter = 0;
      }
      return '<p id="p-'+arguments.callee.counter++ +'">';
    });
    ta.value = text;
  }
})();

Incidentally, the above uses a technique I picked up today while flicking through David Flanagan's eternally useful JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. Inside a JavaScript function a special object called arguments is available. The object has a property called callee which refers to the function itself, even if as above it's an anonymous function. Since functions are objects they can have properties: in this case, I create a counter property and use it to keep track of the IDs as I assign them. The whole lot is contained within a function argument to a replace call, where the function is called every time a <p> is found to determine what to replace it with.

At this point I had everything I needed, but then inspiration struck: how about a method of highlighting a paragraph if a user should visit a page using a link that targetted it? Suporting this meant adding yet another function to be executed once the page had loaded:

function plinkHighlight() {
  if (/#p-/.test(document.location)) {
    // The user arrived via a plink
    var plink_id = document.location.split('#')[1];
    var para = document.getElementById(plink_id);
    para.className = para.className + ' plinkHighlight';
  }
}

A custom style for the highlighted paragraph can now be defined using the plinkHighlight class hook.

I've now implemented all of the above on this site (mostly in the file plinks.js) although currently this is the only entry that contains plink IDs. Best of all, I didn't have to touch a single line of my CMS! This JavaScript thing could really catch on some day.

I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's

I have purple flying monkeys on my pj's 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Crazy day today. Twice we had to evacuate the school. Once during my history test, which was not cool whatsoever,...

ongoing · Purple Number Signs

ongoing · Purple Number Signs 05/30/2004 11:36 PM
Tim Bray is trying out .. Purple Number Signs .. Tim's entry

tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/29/PurpleNumbers
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Glacial Erratics: Big Day for Purple
Numbers

Glacial Erratics: Big Day for Purple
Numbers 05/31/2004 07:10 AM
Big Day for Purple Numbers .. described by Chris Dent

burningchrome.com:8000/~cdent/mt/archives/000277.html
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Milk it, Baby: Godin's Reflections on
Purple Cow

Milk it, Baby: Godin's Reflections on
Purple Cow 02/26/2003 03:48 AM
Google runs the risk of being just a very good utility unless they start aggressively developing flankers. Google news was an example of that. ...

amy sedaris hosting Purple Rain on Trio

amy sedaris hosting Purple Rain on Trio 04/28/2004 10:04 AM
along with some other cult classic movies like Heathers

Simon Willison: plinks - a purple
numbers variant

Simon Willison: plinks - a purple
numbers variant 05/31/2004 05:19 AM
Simon Willison made the technique dynamic .. plinks - a purple numbers variant .. already with the variants .. JavaScript implementation

simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/30/plinks
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Lime green + Lilac purple = Colorlicious
dreams

Lime green + Lilac purple = Colorlicious
dreams 05/18/2004 04:34 PM
Last year I had a season with orange but as I typically am prone to do I've suddenly become wildly...

The JSP Files -- Part 1: Purple Pigs in
a Fruit Basket

The JSP Files -- Part 1: Purple Pigs in
a Fruit Basket 06/06/2002 06:00 AM
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"John Kerry's Own Biography Claims He
Had Seen No Combat Even After He Won His
First Purple Heart"

"John Kerry's Own Biography Claims He
Had Seen No Combat Even After He Won His
First Purple Heart" 08/19/2004 02:32 AM

Details on how Kerry earned his Purple
Hearts and Bronze and Silver Stars

Details on how Kerry earned his Purple
Hearts and Bronze and Silver Stars 04/15/2004 03:47 AM
THE BOSTON GLOBE ON QUESTIONS ABOUT KERRY'S PURPLE HEARTS .. exaggerating a couple scratches .. REPORTS:

boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/14/kerry_faces_ques tions_over_purple_heart
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Cape Times - Zimbabwe's colour TV may
also ban pink, purple, white and green

Cape Times - Zimbabwe's colour TV may
also ban pink, purple, white and green 07/16/2004 01:58 PM
"But there is red in so many things," I argued. "You can't simply ban it out of the spectrum.""We can do what we like with the spectrum, whatever that is," .. Zimbabwe's colour TV may also ban pink, purple, white and green .. A new kind of Red Scare

capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=333&fArticleId=2149318
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The Chase

The Chase 04/14/2005 10:12 PM

Open source wolves are shredding values out of server software market and chasing them up into bundling trees.  Eventually, they'll have to move to an even safer place: selling services instead of software.  While this means SUN's on-demand grid is on the money, the transition will take 10 years so they'll have to go hungry for 3-4 years still and they'll have only a couple of years of gravy before wolves are on their heels as well.

the chase way

the chase way 05/23/2004 10:38 AM
I've been begging my wife to let me close down all but one or two of our credit card accounts. The hassle of dealing each month with many different accounts is more than these fingers can handle. My latest victory was to be Chase. She has had a Chase account for ever. But I finally convinced her there was no real benefit to keeping that account open. So she called Chase and asked that they close the account. Chase was not happy. "What can we do to keep you as a customer," they asked. I was standing next to her when they asked her, so she asked me. I pointed to an advertisement we had just received from AT&T Universal card, promising no fees, zero interest, no payment for a year for balance transfers. She told the Chase representative we'd keep the card open if they gave us the same terms. The representative said she'd have to check, and said she'd call back later. She did. Chase offered the same terms as AT&T, and based upon that offer, we transferred a substantial chunk of airplane ticket debt to Chase. (The worse thing about traveling to speak is carrying the costs of the airplane tickets till reimbursed. At one point last year, I was carrying more receivables in conference expenses than my wife earns in a year.) I remember thinking when this all happened how amazing it was that such a significant transaction could happen based only upon the word of a voice at the other end of the phone promising she spoke for Chase. How advanced the world had become! I thought for a second to ask that they send the offer in writing, but it seemed so 19th century. And anyway, it was Chase! And they were being so cyber! Who was I to spoil the fun? This month we received our statement. As promised, zero interest, and zero fees for the transfer. But contrary to the promise, Chase was demanding a minimum monthly payment. When we called to say that this was not what was agreed to, we were instantly shipped back to the 19th century: "Do you have the offer in writing" the agent at the other end asked? No, we didn't. And after our payment for the full balance transfer is cleared, neither will we have a Chase card anymore either.

Paper Chase

Paper Chase 03/24/2005 02:40 PM
Traditional media companies are going after online properties at a frantic pace.

"The Paper Chase"

"The Paper Chase" 03/26/2005 04:04 PM

Newsreaders Cut to the Chase

Newsreaders Cut to the Chase 04/05/2005 06:15 AM
News junkies can find plenty of sources on the web for the latest news. That's great, and it's a problem. John Gartner takes a look at how newsreaders can help cut the clutter.

The Paper Chase Blog

The Paper Chase Blog 02/14/2004 09:15 AM
The Paper Chase Blog
http://jurist.law.pitt.e du/paperchase/

JURIST, the non-commercial legal information and education Web portal at the the University of Pittsburgh law school, has recently developed an online legal news service in weblog form called "The Paper Chase", edited by myself and a team of some 30 law students. Every day we filter, report and summarize important legal news stories of general (rather than narrowly professional) interest, and enrich those stories with associated research materials in real time. Paper Chase is full of hard news and handy resources, carefully selected for legal significance, quality and authoritativeness.

Cricket: Pakistan chase down 316

Cricket: Pakistan chase down 316 04/12/2005 08:05 AM
Pakistan chase down a 316-run target to level their one-day series with India.

More Bust-Ups Chase Variants

More Bust-Ups Chase Variants 12/22/2004 01:33 AM
Hot on the heels of today's news of the Darth Maul variant bust-up, Rebelscum reader Mike Chlebowy sends in photos of both versions of Darth Maul he found in Cheektowaga, New York. Also check out the Stormtrooper bust-up! If you've got some new bust-ups find, let us know!

VH1: O.J's Car Chase Iconic of the '90s
(AP)

VH1: O.J's Car Chase Iconic of the '90s
(AP) 07/13/2004 03:48 PM
AP - O.J. Simpson's slow-speed police chase may be the iconic moment of the 1990s, but "Where's Waldo?" may be the funniest — at least according to the VH1 nostalgia series "I Love the '90s."

Wi-Fi May Chase Bluetooth Market

Wi-Fi May Chase Bluetooth Market 12/10/2003 03:07 PM
National Semiconductor is touting a low power Wi-Fi chip in the works: The company says the chip, because of its low power requirements, could eat into Bluetooth's market. It makes more sense to me that the chips will instead be ideal for use in cell phones or other devices that need low-powered components. Several other chipmakers have announced a variety of low-powered 802.11b chip designs, most of them due early in 2004....

4,000 IBM staff go to JP Morgan Chase

4,000 IBM staff go to JP Morgan Chase 09/15/2004 08:58 PM

Comic Con Yoda Chase

Comic Con Yoda Chase 06/22/2005 03:03 AM
The "MR Blog" over at Master Replicas.com has posted a couple shots of the San Diego Comic Con-exclusive .45 scale Yoda saber - right here. Only available at Master Replicas SDCC booth this July! A thanks to all those who wrote in for the tip.
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