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A hacker attack this morning, shut down Twitter, and Facebook, and Live Journal. Twitter said in its status blog that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack.”

OK, but how was I going to let people know what I’m having for lunch? Or that the sun is finally out?

The outage began at about 9 a.m. EDT, and still had lingering access problems midday, though both Twitter and Facebook seemed to be functioning at least intermittently, giving social media addicts a collective sigh of relief.

A public-relations manager in Manhattan, said she felt completely lost.”I had to GOOGLE SEARCH Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need.” OH, lighten up!

Some are keeping their sense of humor.

We are hording tinned foods and begun sacrificing our pets in case this truly is the beginning of the end. We can hear looting in the streets. We can smell cars burning. We can sense peoples microblogging frustration. We are crying to ourselves. TechChuff

It’s all fun and games till WoW goes down too, and we have to fend off the hoard of zombie-men stumbling into the streets in search of cheetos and brains. Roy

What about the children?? antje wilsh

Nine months after …. a lot of babies will born! daniel

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Smashingmagazine.com is one of my favorite sites to check.  As a mom whose kids didn’t like to grocery shop with me because of my opinions of the use of type fonts or color on packaging, I found this article inspiring!

No one understands the statement “design is everywhere” better than designers.

For instance, when it’s time to grocery shop, do you treat the experience as a journey through Design Mecca – with sources of inspiration lining the shelves from wall to wall? When you’re waiting on the unbearably slow line at the post office, do you make note of the ugly signage covering the walls and kill the time by redesigning it better in your head?

The next time you go out, why not make a conscious effort to spend the time observing all the graphic design you see around you: from pothole covers to food receipts and anything that catches your eye?

Read the full article by Stephanie Orma, and take the ‘How Good Is My DesignDar?’ test online here.

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Need to find a complementary color on the fly? Or without a PMS deck handy?

Koloroo‘s KolorWheel is a cool utility that turns an iPod into an interactive color wheel that fits in your pocket.

It rotates through base colors when you spin the iPod’s Click Wheel, and shows a complementary color in each corner of the display. You can use KolorWheel with any iPod that has a color display, as well as your desktop or mobile phone. And best of all, it’s free!

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