With Kuler, Adobe Labs present a cool colorpicker-tool. Not only the tool itself is cool. The website it is presented on also: very Web 2.0… In fact: the website *is* the tool. The color-schemes you create here (or were created by others) can be downloaded as an Adobe Swatch Exchange-file. To be used in programs like Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. Kuler is bringen known color-schemers like Color Schemer Gallery and Daily Color Scheme to a new level. Also see here.
While looking up the location of a geocache on Google Maps, I spotted the shadow of an airplane on the ground. Small, but recognisable. This sparked an idea: I combined the two: Geocaching and Google… A kind of loungechair geocaching: who can find more airplanes (flying that is!) on Google Maps? I can hardly imagine that this is the only one photographed. The first official ‘planespot’ can be seen on the map at 52.394943 and 4.71649. Happy to see if anyone can find more. Or was this a lucky shot?
Update (12 Feb. 2007): here’s another one (and it’s shadow?) And this is rather obvious…
Dutch telecom-watchdog OPTA has fined a Dutch spammer for € 75.000,-. This was acknowleged by a OPTA-spokesperson, last fridaymorning after reports in Dutch daily AD. The spammer sent at least 9.000.000.000 spam-mails and earned at least 52.000 dollars.
OPTA traced the man after a tip from Microsoft. No details are given, apart that the man lives in the province of Noord-Holland. He hired computers in the USA to be able to sent the spam-messages. Mostly about – oh surprise – advertising for erection-pills and porn-sites.
This is the highest fine up until now given by OPTA. One of the grimmer things OPTA considered by defining the fine, was the fact that the spammer used innocent people’s computers as mail-hubs. Since May 14th, 2004 sending onsolicited e-mailmessages to private persons is prohibited.
(source: NU.NL in Dutch.)
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