One Trick Pony

From Kuro5hin came the pointer to The Web-Safe Palette Initiative which is collecting nominations for what to call those 216 colors we see everywhere. You can either support the names already suggested or add your own. Over time, I guess, the site will democratically arrive at the best labels.

This has me flashing back to 8th grade when my friend George Snyder and I hooked up three flashlights to three rheostats and put red, green and blue filters on the lights. We wanted to be able to create any color possible and I think we had visions of discovering new colors that no one had ever named. Like a lot of our 8th grade projects, I think this one fizzled out long before it got to the Nobel Prize stage.

Today on the CNN page, Americans Pick Up Books — But Are They Reading Them? describes the rise of book clubs on TV and an apparent increase in the number of books people are purchasing though not necessarily finishing. Among the newly avid readers is George W. Bush.

“The most surprising convert to the ranks of the highbrow is Bush, who has evolved from calling the Greeks “Grecians” to reading the Greeks himself. An official recently told reporters that Bush’s influences included Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics,” along with Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Cicero.”

Yeah, right. Not unless there’s a Classic Comics version.