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Color Codes and HTML for Web Design

Sus Schmitt

Are you designing your own blog or web site?  Here’s some help for choosing colors. If you like a public website’s colors, you can find all the color codes used by any web page using the tool on I Like Your Colors. To use official colors, follow this link to the official Cru color palette. You’ll be using the colors for “web” not for RGB or CMYK.  (I explained about Cru’s official fonts and colors in an earlier post.) Visit this HTML color codes page for a full listing of color codes if you want to choose your own colors. To … Continue reading Color Codes and HTML for Web Design

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Mobilizing Prayer Online for Lent

Sus Schmitt

If you’re looking for a good way to mobilize prayer, check out PrayEurope’s 40 days of prayer for Europe, which starts today, Ash Wednesday, and goes throughout Lent.  Each day, PrayEurope will have prayer requests featuring one of Europe’s 40 countries.  Today starts with Albania. After praying, you can check off that you prayed. You can sign up for an email reminder. You can get prayer requests through following them on Facebook… And on Twitter. Continue reading Mobilizing Prayer Online for Lent

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George Bernard Shaw and Texting

Sus Schmitt

I’m guessing that Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw would have loved texting!
I can scribble the word “bomb” barely legibly 18 times in one minute and “bom” 24 times, saving 25 per cent per minute by dropping the superfluous b. In the British Commonwealth, on which the sun never sets, and in the United States of North America, there are always millions of people continually writing, writing, writing … Those who are writing are losing time at the rate of 131,400 X x per annum …
So, I couldn’t resist. I found this quote from Shaw:
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
And changed it to a text:
*s* family is ADIH
Do you have any creative texts to share?
NOTE: Here’s a comprehensive list of chat and text abbreviations, which might be especially helpful for parents.
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Are We Already Cyborgs?

Sus Schmitt

Amber Case, a cyborg anthropologist, makes some interesting observations about our high-tech lifestyle.  She has a different perspective on social networking that I think you’ll appreciate. Here’s the definition of cyborg that she uses: an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments.”  (Don’t worry, her talk isn’t all technobabble.) So, after listening to her eight-minute talk, jump into the “technosocial wormhole” and post your comments! NOTE: You can learn more about the image of the internet she uses near the end of her talk. Continue reading Are We Already Cyborgs?

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Adorn Your Facebook Profile

Sus Schmitt

Our hearts hunger for something we can sink our teeth into – a good story, the latest relationship status, or the most recently posted pictures.  Our hearts hunger so much that we become like wandering nomads drifting across Facebook seeking fulfillment. But what if Facebook offered a different kind of status to update each time we logged in?  Instead of posing the question, What’s on your mind? What if Facebook asked, What’s in your heart? Would we type discontentment, idolatry, satisfaction, joy? Since we all search for significant connection and community in this life, Facebook seems like a natural tool … Continue reading Adorn Your Facebook Profile