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Taxonomy of colors
Via kottke, we discovered this Color Thesaurus created by designer and author Ingrid Sundberg. Ms Sundberg’s original and beautiful “color thesaurus” provides a taxonomy or breakdown of all the shades of color within each major primary color group, including white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue (pictured … Continue reading
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Open borders
Via Valerio Vincenzo, check out these amazing and beautiful pictures of open borders in the Schengen area, a geographical zone consisting of a total of 26 European countries that have abolished their passport and border controls at their common borders. … Continue reading
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Reblog: “Punctuation in novels”
Corrected (2/18): In case you’re wondering, via Adam J. Calhoun this is what two different English-language novels look like if you were to take out all the words and sentences and just leave the punctuation marks behind: Punctuation in Blood Meridian by … Continue reading
What is art? (Ptolemaic edition)
We recently visited the Tampa Museum of Art with our eldest (Adela) and youngest (Adys) daughters. This Ptolemaic piece was our favorite work of art from the museum’s modest collection, but what makes any given object a “work of … Continue reading
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Mind game …
… or the illusion of motion (via Cliff Pickover)
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prior probability 