Last Week Around the -ISTs
Schieffer's Out of Gov Race
- A new academic study suggests that the appeal of curvy women is based on more than the purely physical.
- Homophobic Surgeon General nominee to be recess appointed by Bush?
- The 2008 Austin Firefighters Calendar is on sale, and we're thinking about next summer's dry spell already.
- WTF: Jump-roping dogs.
- The Austin Independent School District just started an outreach program that’s meant to enroll more African American students into its gifted and talented programs.
- In The Netherlands, a social movement is born to protect the free use of the magenta colour in communication materials. The fight has begun recently, when mobile carrier T-Mobile has started a legal fight versus a series of Dutch brands such as Slam FM, Compello and 100% NL with magenta in their logo.
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Allowing T-Mobile to "claim" the rights to a specific color that is so common wouldn't just set a n interesting precedent, it would set a dangerous one. I'm ok with certain colors or combinations being protected within an industry (e.g. UPS and the color brown fro shipping) but a boundary has to be set. What would stop IBM ("Big Blue")from preventing every other company from using the color blue? T-Mobile should wake up and realize that they are wasting money on a pointless legal action that could be better spent on branding efforts or product research.
that graphical gangster is just a cheap rip off of http://earlboykins.blogspot.com/
Magenta exists only in the mind.
That person that wrote that is an idiot. The colors of light are different from the colors of paint. Magenta exists as a light color. that's why the color scale for lights is CMKY.