Archive for 2005

216 colour cube

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

“The Netscape palette for foreground colors usually (but NOT always) consists of all the combinations of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF for each of the red, green, and blue elements of the color descriptor. This results in 216 (6×6×6) distinct colors.” – Victor Engel

The Browser Safe Palette
Colour palette map
Color Primer

A colour taken [...]

Open quals

Friday, February 18th, 2005

http://www.openquals.org.uk/

Some stats simulations

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Central Limit Theorem – you can roll up to 5 dice up to 10000 times and plot the frequency distribution of the total score. As you ‘roll the dice’ a second and third time, the cumulative score is shown so that the Normal distribution can emerge through repeated samples. Nice touch – imagine using this [...]

What is good hypertext writing?

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

Jutta Degener’s What is good hypertext writing essay is still relevant 7 years later, even though Web pages tend to look more like interfaces and less like documents.

The rest of her homepage looks sort of antique but still interesting. I like the paintings.

Transquoting

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

” It never occurred to me that the techies writing the software would try to use the computer to simulate paper Ôø? actually not even paper, but paper under glass. ” quoted in Grand Text Auto blog

Ted Nelson suffered character assasination in a well known Wired article about Xanadu. Anyone who can dismiss Word [...]