5 Interesting Links for 08-10-2012

Being Positive

If you read my blog, you know I’m all about the positive. I think there’s enough negative out there without contributing to it. Well, here’s your chance to join me, and apparently a bunch of other people :), in trying to be positive for a whole month:
http://www.montecookgames.com/a/

Environment

Here is an excellent example both of how the US Army can do more than just fight wars, and how to make a negative into a positive (how wonderful that the US national bird is benefitting from their efforts):
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3153-space-video-army-builds-island.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SP_07092012

Website

A useful website tool to check the color contrasts and choices on a site:
http://www.checkmycolours.com/

Inventions

When I was a kid, we had a standalone Pong console, but ours was nothing like the one put together by two Cornell University students featured in this article. They figured out how to use brain wave intensity to control the paddles. The implications are amazing but even without them, it’s fun.
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2423-brain-pong-game-strange-snapshots.html

Publishing

Walter Jon Williams offers his experience with ePubbing his backlist and what he thinks of the electronic publishing platform:
http://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/06/year-one/

Curve of Her Claw

Fall into a world where beauty is a facade, and one elf is pushed beyond reason to rid herself of the smooth-skinned curse. ~ Now available as an eBook:
Curve of Her Claw

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4 Responses to 5 Interesting Links for 08-10-2012

  1. Erin says:

    Passed along the A+ link.

    Checked my site with the color-checker and came up with more fails than passes, but didn’t understand most of what it was telling me (probably because it’s all classes and stuff defined in the CSS).

    Off to read Walter Jon Williams’ article now.

    • Margaret McGaffey Fisk says:

      Clearly I hit your buttons with this week :).

      On the color checker, it does show you the color combinations, which might help find them. It checks every single combination in the CSS though, not necessarily those you use currently. I haven’t had the chance to act on them yet, but there were some I think I need to do.

      • Erin says:

        A lot of them seemed to be white on blue or black on blue — they all looked the same to me, frankly.

        • Margaret McGaffey Fisk says:

          Ah, see a lot of mine are cases where instead of black, or dark blue, it’s grey or light blue, so the problem is the contrast between background and font.

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