I stumbled upon a interesting blog about the color of the sun. Most people will think the sun is yellow but its actually not. The color of the sun is in graphic design terms : #fff5f2
The original article can be found here.
Here are some more stars and there colors.
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
For the “universe” designers out there
Internet addresses set to recognise non western characters
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation and country code (ccTLD) amongst other things is meeting in Seoul this week.
Coming out of that meeting it has been agreed to to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, that is set to change the way [...]
So newspapers, TV and twitter are not for teens..
There are several interesting articles that appeared everywhere last week about a report written (full report) by Matthew Robson, a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley. The report gives an insight into the habits, likes and dislikes of teens
A taste of @media 2009 - London
@media 2009 has been a great display of what is going on in the web industry at the moment and what is most likely to happen next. A good deal of professionals sharing their passion for the Web, work, concerns and ideas, always in a critical but constructive way.
Wordle Up
Cool app that was borne out of the classroom as a teaching aid for kids. Wordle is a word cloud generation tool that allows you pump any text/feed/blog you wish! Here is an example that was taken from the Arekibo newspage:
So, what we could it really be used for?! Aside from snazzing up a [...]
Twittering - Inside Iran
I was sent a link to a twitter page http://twitter.com/persiankiwi last week and have been monitoring it for the past few days. I have my doubts about twitter but seeing it used this way is very interesting.
Since I began monitoring persiankiwi who is inside Iran - (unconfirmed) I’ve been following his activities and updates every [...]
Pens, notepads, lunch and… iPod?
Psychologists have discovered that students who download a podcast lecture score substantially higher grades than those who attend class and receive printouts of the lecture. Degree’s in iPod-ology all round then!