I came across an interesting project by Angelica Dass, in which she is trying to map skin tones to PANTONE colors. Â Apart from the color theory side of this project, I find the actual portrait photography interesting. Â It is so unusual to see human faces without too much post-processing. Â Beautiful, real-life people.
Slashdot reports: The developers of jQuery recently announced in a blog entry that jQuery 2.0 will drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The release will come in parallel with version 1.9, however, which will include support for older versions of IE. The versions will offer full API compatibility, but 2.0 will ‘benefit from … Continue reading jQuery 2.0 will drop support for MSIE 6, 7, and 8
Catching up with Slashdot today, I read about Digg.com being sold to Betaworks: The once popular social news website Digg.com, which received $45 million in funding, is being sold to to Betaworks for $500,000. From the article: ‘Betaworks is acquiring the Digg brand, website, and technology, but not its employees. Digg will be folded into News.me, Betaworks’ … Continue reading Digg.com sold to Betaworks
GoDaddy has been known for its horrible website for a long time now.  Anyone who has ever hosted a domain with them, knows how counter-intuitive, cluttered, and noisy that website is.  But there was still a little hope that one day they will realize this and maybe, just maybe throw 99.99% of all that junk out … Continue reading The hopeless case of GoDaddy brevity
Auto Chunk covers the story of this absolutely incredible piece of work: Rolls Royce’s Trent 1000 powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft in real. However, the British automaker has revealed its half-sized lego model at the Farnborough International Airshow. The model is deemed as one of the most complex lego model ever made. The lego … Continue reading Half-size Rolls Royce Trent 1000 replica built with Lego
