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Magenta

2009-05-07

The next photo for Project “Show Colors”:

7: Magenta

7: Magenta

A cordless ISDN phone with a Deutsche Telekom special functions key that I never used, even when the Telekom was responsible for more than just the bare wire – but guess which key a neighbor who once locked herself out of her apartment and asked me if she could call her daughter who had a key pressed to make the connection after dialing…?


…and sometimes white

2009-05-06

Or: How a Single Serving Site (info) can fail. :)

You know, there are a few simple sites that, for instance, just give a brief answer (“No”) to questions like “Should I use tables for layout?” or “Is it Christmas?” and nothing more – my little Ü toy may already be too elaborate –, but even then it can happen that the site operator misses a case:

A page that claims to be sometimes red and sometimes blue, aptly named sometimesredsometimesblue.com, remains white if you access it with JavaScript turned off – that’s worthy of a little FAIL, I think, so:

FAIL. :bigsmile:

(via Apfelknacker)

Musik-Quiz 57

2009-05-05

Dienstag Nachmittag, Zeit für die nächsten Musik-Bilderrätsel…

1. Welcher Bandname wird hier dargestellt?

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Gelöst von Julia mit Vorarbeit von Sebastian: Mando Diao – Man, do (Katakana), Dia, O.
Dia-Bild von Sam Fentres/Wikipedia, CC-by-sa-Lizenz

2. Welcher Liedtitel wird hier dargestellt? ;)

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Gelöst von plerzelwupp (kurz vor Julia):
“Angie” von den Rolling Stones (Live-Video) – wie Willi Astor schon sang: Ein Ski (Video mit mehreren Songs, dieser ab ca. 0:50)

3. Welcher Bandname ist das?

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Gelöst von Dave (der leider im Spam gelandet war) und Yjgalla: Foreigner (Live-Video von “Urgent”) – 4 (four) in R.

Danke fürs Mitmachen, bis nächsten Dienstag.