http://www.knowncolor.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:35:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From a sleepless concoction of squeaky clean floor tiles, gently whirring rotating stairs, and polished steel handrails. Luggage, trolleys, glass and concrete. A change of display and a film scene boarding gate dash. A foreign capitolMP3 Music Ringtones for Sprint, Cingular, Verizon and T-MobileBeruhmte roulette. Customers: LIMITED time special offer to ... http://www.knowncolor.com/life/amsterdam/ Q: What would you rather lose; your ability to reason logically, or your capability to experience emotion? I remember hearing this question asked by a Cambridge professor of Philosophy to a ten year old child on a BBC documentary about gifted young children. The ten year old had an IQ of ... http://www.knowncolor.com/general/question-of-a-robot/ Last year I thought that anime was reserved for some kind of sub-geek I wasn't happy to associate with, since then along with a multitude of new interests, locations and cultures, my exposure to this magical, color-filled realm of cartoon fantasy filled with wide-eyed innocence of character and adult (sometimes ... http://www.knowncolor.com/entertainment/anime/ Tired of forgetting the details of life and an unshakable need to access a computer to arrange anything I have taken the long thought about plunge of starting a diary. In it I plan to record significant events and thoughts, some of which will no doubt end up on this ... http://www.knowncolor.com/general/dear-diary/ Have your cake, and eat it. http://www.knowncolor.com/uncategorized/as-far-as-awesome-tattoos-go/ Over a cardboard stand at the roadside we bought tickets to the Bosnia vs Croatia football match in Sarajevo fully aware of the rivalry between the former Yugoslavian nations. As we walked the chants from the national stadium became clearer, and outside an array of portable fast food, bottled water in ... http://www.knowncolor.com/entertainment/bosnia-vs-croatia/ I recently gazed down at london from the Golden Gallery at the top of St Paul's Cathedral and as I was watching the ant sized people milling around I began to categorize them by their location, appearance and actions into the various roles they play; a SimCity esque top-down view ... http://www.knowncolor.com/general/view-of-a-simcity/ A first class cabin window looking across a desert farmland; sparsely spaced mountains, rivers and beauty. Crumbling concrete and rusted steel from a thousand abandoned factories; piles of train parts, forever waiting assembly. http://www.knowncolor.com/general/sofia-to-plovdiv/ According to The General Book of Ignorance (a brilliant book I would recommend to anyone) - two. After reading this I ended up having an argument with my mum about its truth, she said that the book just picked up silly and contestable reasons why things everybody thought they knew ... http://www.knowncolor.com/media/q-how-many-wives-did-henry-viii-have-a-two/ I stumbled upon (not this one) the web comic xkcd today and started reading from the first post until finding this UTTER GENIUS! http://www.knowncolor.com/fun/xkcd/