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I decided I didn’t like the choice of colour I was using around the “blog” section of this page. I put a colour around it in the first place because I wanted to break it up from the image and links below, but in retrospect I realised that it was pulling away from the design I had originally envisaged.
If you look back through the archives at early pages, you will see they are mostly black on white and it was that minimalist feel that I liked about the site. It also made the drop down menu quite startling with its orange roll-overs. I felt that that lilac background was detracting.
Hello Grey!
Further proof that you shouldn’t believe everything you read –
I was reading A Yobbo’s view a few days ago and he had a link… and a rather scathing comment… about Baby Ink. A tattooing company set up especially to cater to babies, infants and children.
Not surprisingly, it turned out to be a hoax. Snopes.com have this site posted on their urban legends pages, but it does remind me of something else that was being forwarded via blog.
I can’t actually remember the blog I found this on, (I came across it while surfing) but they had posted a photo of the worlds largest woman “Photographs show the “biggest woman in the world,” a 7’4″ woman from Holland.” and were getting all the wow comments.
As I had already come across this photo via email a couple of years ago, and later had it dismissed on Snopes.com as a fraud, I felt it was my duty to set this hapless blogger straight, pasting the link.
I guess she didn’t like it as she deleted my post within a couple of hours. I guess it is better to spread deception rather than admit that you are wrong!
Its not just general public being shammed by hoaxes. It is not uncommon for the media to run with a story only to find out afterwards that they are victims of a hoax. In this information overload society with unrealistic deadlines, there often isn’t enough time to thoroughly research a story.
Other Urban legend links – Urban Legends Reference Pages | Urban Legends and Folklore | Hoax photo test
