Name That Color
Name That Color is a nice little tool that was able to let me know that the colors currently present on this site (assuming I’m sticking with this theme called Mimetic — again) are Azure Radiance (the blue titles), International Orange (blog title and ads) and Alto (gray in the background pattern). Kinda useless, but at the same time it’s also fun knowing the names.
The Most Well Designed Flags of the World
I was reading kottke.org (great blog by the way) and came across a link, where all the flags of the world are given a grade based on its design; either A, B, C or a fail grade.
Some time ago, browsing through my friend’s atlas, I realised that there are significant differences in quality between the flags of different countries. Some are good, some are bad. Some countries have clearly taken care in the choice of colours, layout, and design. Others have been lazy, stolen the flags of their neighbours, or just designed flags that are clearly supposed to cause pain to those who look at them.
While I don’t agree with all of the grades, I think he gets most of them right.
These are my personal favorite flags in random order: Canada, Japan, Somalia, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and Estonia. Most of those aren’t very original, but I really enjoy the colors. If I had to choose just one I would choose Canada.
Embracing Contrast
I love photos like this that makes good use of contrast. Sin City wasn’t just an insanely good movie, it was also beautiful to look at.
Gmail’s New Color Labels
I like ‘em. It took a few days for me to actually start using them, but I think I’ll eventually end up loving them. I needed a good cleanup in my Gmail account anyway. I’ve now gone from 55 labels for all the various e-mails coming to my inbox to 23. That’s pretty good. I plan on using just 12 or something like that one day, but for now this is pretty good. I mean, why do I need to label my e-mails as aggresively as I have been? The search function is superb, so I’ll get to whatever e-mail I need in no time anyway, so from now on I’ll stop using the labels as tags and more like folders. I’ve wasted enough time on that.
On topic: I’ve been wanting to clean up my blog’s categories for a while too. I have probably like twenty something and I don’t really need that many. 8 or something like that should be enough.
The New Bravia Ad
This is the sequel if you will, to that commercial with the 250.000 superballs, which were released in San Francisco. Only, this is EVEN BETTER. I mean, wow.. go watch now.
Our latest TV ad - featuring massive paint explosions - took 10 days and 250 people to film. Huge quantities of paint were needed to accomplish this, which had to be delivered in 1 tonne trucks and mixed on-site by 20 people.
Watch the ad: Link.
Duck Fader
To tell you the truth I’m not a big fan of Star Wars and never was. Sick, I know, but that’s the truth. OK, I might have enjoyed the first three movies way back when, but when I tried to (the keyword being “tried”) watch The Phantom Menace I had to finally realize that I simply don’t think the movies are all that. Oh, well that’s not what I wanted to talk about. Even though you may not like Star Wars just like me, I think you’ll agree that this toy is pretty badass.
“Duck Fadar is, as you may have determined, an LED-packed rubber duck resembling everyone’s favourite Dark Lord. Simply pop him in the bath and watch in awe as he floats around and automatically phases through various mesmerising colours.”