#66ccff

[voca-song-a-day]

Today’s featured song is: “66CCFF” by Sugita Akira and Haoyue feat. Luo Tianyi! (warning: video contains epileptic content)

[pussreboots]

While pretending to have a séance tea party, Lora ends up meeting the ghost, Alexa, who haunts her home.

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Since she was eight, Maddy Gaines has been obsessed with safety. That was the year her father died and her life turned upside down.

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Franny's group of friends call themselves the Ordinary. They run a YouTube channel where they make videos of their ghost hunting activities. They are out one such night in a home abandoned since the explosion when they witness something fall from the sky, take out the top half of a high voltage electrical tower, and lose about six hours of their memories.

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Wilder while giving yet another tour of the museum finds a pirate map in a recently donated writing desk. She rounds up her friends to try to track down the treasure..

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Very Dark Turquoise to Light Blue #006633 to #66CCFF (RGB; Upper Left to Lower Right)

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Pakistan Green to Light Blue #006600 to #66CCFF (RGB; Upper Left to Lower Right)

[websafe2k16-blog]

Paul Ford

If the world of technology has a central irony it’s how how something that represents infinite opportunity can in retrospect seem limiting and miniscule. You would spend hours looking for a balance between links (followed and unfollowed), text, headlines, and background. Choosing the right amount of dithering on your GIFs. People would send emails complimenting you on your choice of colors. Other people felt proprietary about their palette and angry when it was copied (they might say “stolen”). Drama ensued in the community.

The point of those 216 was that they worked everywhere, Mac or PC or whathaveyou. What looks dithered and retro now (“retina” will, in time, be hilarious too) represented a best effort to make something all could see, at a moment when your operating system limited your view of the world. The idea was: It could work for everyone. Still a good idea.