The Safe Palette For The World Wide Web

click image to enlarge the 216 color safe palette

There was a time when you could only use these colors on a web site--to ensure colors wouldn't dither (where a color is created by mixing dots, crosshatches, etc., of more than one color to create the illusion of another color). In 1996, most computers had 8-bit video cards (e.g, capable of displaying 256 colors).

The Browser-Safe Palette actually uses 216 colors (see swatches above) of the possible 256. The other 40 colors vary on Macs and PCs; not using those colors allows this palette to work cross-platform.

The woman who first identified the safe palette said:

"The browser-safe palette was developed by programmers with no design sense, I assure you. That's because a designer would have never picked these colors. Mostly, the palette contains far less light and dark colors than I wish it did, and is heavy on highly saturated colors and low on muted, tinted or toned colors. "

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Gee Whiz! 2

Click image to enlarge. A road crew in Washington
state collected these jugs of urine. In one year, a
single, small county in the state collected 2,666
jugs.


MSNBC SEATTLE — Roadside litter comes in all shapes and sizes — from dirty diapers to syringes — but there's one category that out-grosses the rest: trucker bombs. Most drivers whiz along the nation's highways largely oblivious to their roadside surroundings. But next time you are out there, take a closer look.

"As soon as you look for it you’ll see it," says Megan Warfield, litter programs coordinator at Washington state's Department of Ecology. "You just see them glistening in the sun. It’s just gross."

They are trucker bombs, plastic jugs full of urine tossed by truckers. . .

Click the title to link to the story on MSNBC.
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Has The Prophet Yahweh Fallen On Hard Times? And Was It My Brother-In-Law's Posting Here That Caused It?

I saw the impressive video from a television station (it looked more or less plausible..it may have been a reakl TV station, or it could have been cooked up). A reporter, camera man, and The Prophet see freaky objects in the sky. I don't know if The Prophet Yahweh Seer of Yahweh was able to successfully summon the UFOs in Las Vegas tonight. He will be calling the spaceships until July 15. It looks like his pay video site didn't work. He mailed his press list and subscribers:

Dear Lists,

It's late now (9 PM) and starting tomorrow I will be contacting you about issuing you your refunds.

There were not a lot of people who signed up.

And the little $7.95 did not pay for the debt I incurred from people throughout the earth running up my streaming bill in my name and other bills related to the operation.

I have not spent one penny of the small amount of money I received from you.

I have let it sit up in my Pay Pal account.

I will start contacting you about your refund tommorrow.

No one who paid the $7.95 has to worry about if they will get their money back.

Because, I represent YAHWEH, and my honor and my words are all I have. And, I will not let it fail over a few $7.95 payments.

Sincerely,
Prophet YahwehSeer of Yahweh
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Mark Felt, American Hero

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The Washington Post (And Woodward And Bernstein) Confirm That Felt Is Indeed Deep Throat

Check out the Washington Post story.

Deep Throat Comes Out Of The Closet

A former FBI official claims he was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday. We've been waiting thirty years for this one.

W. Mark Felt, now 91, second-banana at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret from his family until 2002, when he admitted to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward’s source, the magazine said.

Woodward and Bernstein are sticking to their guns--they will not disclose Deep Throat's identity while he is still alive. "We've said all along that when the source known as Deep Throat dies, we will reveal his identity and explain at great length all of our dealings with that individual and context of that relationship," Mr. Bernstein said.

It looks like this is the real deal. I always thought it was probably Alexander Haig (Chief of Staff) or Patrick Buchanan (speechwriter). Click on the title to link to an article on the Deep Throat revelation.
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Bob Dylan - New Morning Lyrics

I recently reacquainted myself with Bob Dylan's New Morning album. It has been totally underrated. Although the subject matter is deeply personal, he sings and plays with a subtle looseness that it is refreshing. Clearly this is predecessor to one of his greatest albums of all time: Blood On The Tracks. In this album, the wheels were coming off his marriage. In Blood, it was all over; only the taste of ashes remains. Blood on the tracks was an amazingly realized album of rage and anguish. New Morning still has moments of sunshine and optimism. The looseness of his voice, the music, and the lyrics were a breather-- the calm before the storm:

New Morning

Can't you hear that rooster crowin'?
Rabbit runnin' down across the road
Underneath the bridge where the water flowed through
So happy just to see you smile
Underneath the sky of blue
On this new morning, new morning
On this new morning with you.

Can't you hear that motor turnin'?
Automobile comin' into style
Comin' down the road for a country mile or two
So happy just to see you smile
Underneath the sky of blue
On this new morning, new morning
On this new morning with you.

The night passed away so quickly
It always does when you're with me.
Can't you feel that sun a-shinin'?
Ground hog runnin' by the country stream
This must be the day that all of my dreams come true
So happy just to be alive
Underneath the sky of blue
On this new morning, new morning
On this new morning with you.

So happy just to be alive
Underneath the sky of blue
On this new morning, new morning
On this new morning with you.
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Poem: The Late Excavation (Text And Audio)

This poem is also a test of the audio blog feature. Audio blogs are pretty cool, but have some limitations. . .you phone in the audio, so you've got the phone to deal with, and then the MP3 sounds heavily compressed. You call a number, log in, and start dictating, and it appears on your blog a second later. Hey, I'm not complaining; it's free!

/jack

Millenia from his fall,
An Athenian Youth is resurrected.
The broken limbs, severed head and torso
Are carefully pieced back together.

In 1897, a hand is uncovered, tagged
And logged onto the archaelogical map.

In 1946, an Americaniki, PhD.,
Pegs the hand to the vacant wrist.
An amputee no more, the Youth waves
To the crowd filing by his plinth.

In 2005, near where the hand turned up,
Two dusty graduate students
Sift the earth for shards and chips of marble.

A tourist may have carried the pieces away
More than a century ago, but they dig
In search of the missing parts:
Three toes, his index finger, penis and nose.
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A Decline In Constipation?

The use of savage here is not perjorative. . .a common earlier meaning of savage was "undomesticated," although we use the word now almost exclusively as "brutal" or "barbaric."

It seems, in the early 21st century that we no longer have the same national obsession with our bowels as we did earlier, in the 20th century. Are we all now, as the saying goes, "regular?"
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The Prophet Yahweh Dethroned. Right Here, Right Now.

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An anonymous (so far) Prophet has come forward to demonstrate his or her even greater powers. This Prophet seems to have taken on the mission of protecting the earth from Prophet Yahweh, the Pied Piper of UFOs. Come forward, Prophet, that we might pay you our respect!

"But I am a greater prophet! I have sensed Prophet Yahweh's call to the UFOs. The ether has vibrated to the point of almost snapping, but with my power I have healed the rift. Now I must put Prophet Yahweh back in his place.

"Therefore, let it be known, and my word is certain and will not return void, that on the dates specified, I will be the counterforce to Prophet Yahweh. I will prevent the UFOs from coming at that time.Watch the skies during those times. You will surely see who is the greatest prophet. Me!! This is not a joke. On my word I tell you, the UFOs will not appear!"

Anonymous, at 5/28/2005 08:02:45 AM

Dear Anonymous: We MUST promulgate the message of your greater powers!! What better show of ultimate force than to nullify Prophet Yahweh's commands. Come forward Anonymous so that we may unveil you to a world raptly awaiting Prophet Yahweh's publicity stunt. Could this have any repercussions to Prophet Yahweh's being? Like his wig? I mean, will there be any energy backwash? We wouldn't want The Prophet's head to explode. At least not yet. /jack
By Jack Brummet, at 5/28/2005 01:19:35 PM

Majority In Poll Say They'd Likely Vote For Senator Clinton

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For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday.
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President Bush's Propaganda

"...third time I've said that. [Laughter.] I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. [Applause.]

[re: his Social Security reforms] from a speech by POTUS on May 25, 2005 at the Greece Athena Middle and High School, Greece, New York.