Paul: How can the bananas be brown and green?

Steve: They start as green and go straight to black. It’s God’s little joke.

Jackie: I think it’s our fruit supplier’s little joke.

Paul: God IS our fruit supplier, Jackie.

(It might just be me, but I can’t stop smiling at the content of this conversation … or maybe you had to be there. I’m glad I was!)

Pretty innovative photo search tool.

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr#colors

Below are two quotes I recently came across that I feel speak volumes (both from the same source):

“When we are on the edge of our comfort zone, we are in the best place to expand our understanding, take a new perspective, and stretch our awareness.”

“Being on a learning edge can be signaled by feelings of annoyance, anger, anxiety, surprise, confusion, or defensiveness. These reactions are signs that our way of seeing things is being challenged. If we retreat to our comfort zone, by dismissing whatever we encounter that does not agree with our way of seeing the world, we lose an opportunity to expand our understanding.”

Source: Adams, M; L.A. Bell; and P. Griffin. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. pg 68.
(No, I didn’t read this book, impressive though it may sound. I found the quotes on an entirely unrelated Web site.)

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I discovered another quote on the back of my organic ravioli package last night but I’ll need to go home and reconsult the bag before I can share it.

In our creative pow-wow yesterday, we were challenged to post something on GS BS. One criteria for what to post was, “What inspires you?” This photography inspires me.

Vinyl Sleeve Heads

280 North is a company that has developed a web application that rivals MS Powerpoint and looks an awful lot like Apple Keynote.  It’s called 280 Slides and it’s amazing.  From from the screenshot alone you have to say, “That’s a web application!?”

Furthermore, it’s developed in a new open source framework called Cappuccino.  Cappuccino, unlike Mootools, JQuery and their kin, is built for building web applications versus web sites.  HTML, DOM and CSS are all abstracted away.  From what it looks like, it’s more like writing a MacOSX Cocoa application - but in Javascript; it runs without a plugin or server side services.  Furthermore, to embrace the Cocoa development “feel”, the underlying language Objective-J (a take off of MacOSX’s “Objective-C”, which Cocoa uses) that extends traditional Javascript to allow dynamic imports of includes and Objective-C’s object model.

There’s a lot of new stuff here…