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website accessibility design tool

July 22nd 2009 06:14

Heres a great tool for anyone designing their own website. It shows the contrast between the text color you use and the background color and how viewable it would be to someone with visual color deficits.
Colour Check

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Web and Graphic Design

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Basement walls covered in Sharpie Art

October 13th 2008 09:43

It's amazing what someone with some free time, artistic talent, and a pocketful of sharpies can accomplish. Charlie Kratzer of South Lexington, Kentucky covered the walls of his basement with an amazing group of characters including Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill, Bullwinkle and Rocky, George Bernard Shaw, Joan Crawford and William Shakespeare. He has also recreated famous works of art such as Picasso's The Dream and Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

The view of his basement below doesn't show so well at this size. You can see a larger view at Kentucky.com.

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Fun and Games

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Test Your Color IQ

October 7th 2008 02:49

This is fun to try. You have to arrange colored squares (they kind of look like paint chips) in order by hue. It is a lot harder than it sounds. The lower your score the better. I got a 14.
Hue Test

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Fun and Games

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The CSS Zen Garden Challenge

October 6th 2008 03:45

Design by John Politowski - U.S.

Do you consider yourself a css expert? Then the css Zen Garden is the place for you. It's an unusual web site that challenges designers to use the same code as everyone else, change only the css and come up with a completely different and useable webpage

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Web and Graphic Design

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Dolphin bubble rings

October 2nd 2008 07:45

Photo courtesy of Deep Ocean.

In this video you can watch Bottlenose Dolphins creating and playing with bubble rings

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Amazing animals, Science and Tech

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Would you like some hair in your bread?

October 1st 2008 06:01

Well if that bread your eating has L-Cysteine listed as an ingredient that is probably what your eating. L-Cysteine is used as a dough conditioner to increase production and is most often obtained from human hair. It can be also be obtained from duck feathers and boar bristles but it's most cost effective to get it from human hair through hydrolysis. It is also used as a hearty (meaty) flavoring in foods and also in some beauty products and medications. There has been a rumor floating around that the hair is obtained from cadavers but this has never been proven to be true

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Posted By: Ruth Moratz - Category: Food, Yuck

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