For web geeks like me whose design ambitions occasionally outpace our abilities, it’s always fun to come across tools like this:
Just give it the URL of any image anywhere on the web (such as, for example on your own site) and it generates color palettes for you to use in your design, based on the colors in the image.
Look for yet another new Room 34 site redesign in the near (or not-so-near) future using this tool!
Although before long (well, about two years) I wanted nothing more than to get out of there, I have to admit, southern California did have an almost mythical allure. Maybe it was the perfect weather 50 weeks a year… or the close promimity to natural wonders of sea, mountain and desert… or the fact that we lived in a place that people all over the world actually know about, thanks to Hollywood, that just made the place seem important.
At any rate, practically speaking, there was a great triumvirate of businesses throughout “SoCal” that made life seem just a bit more heavenly than anyplace else on Earth. I loved them mostly because of their conspicuous absence back home in Minnesota. But one by one, they’re appearing here in the hinterlands.
First there was IKEA. And it was good.
Today, delight of delights, the second opened for business… Trader Joe’s.
Now, if only we could get In-N-Out Burger to expand east (and, for that matter, north) of Phoenix…
If you think this is funny, you are one. A guy I know sent this to me… apparently it’s someone’s signature on Slashdot:
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
And on the subject of “geek tests,” I tipped off that same guy to the existence of the great Nerd, Geek or Dork Test.