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30th March 2004

Cataloging Colors

“What does it take to name a color? Manufacturers do it every day for their own convenience. It helps them keep track of what they’re making and how it’s selling and distinguishes one season from another. Apparently, it also makes colors more desirable, forming associations between random hues and exotic places and objects and values and flavors and anything else that might help sell. Still, there’s something presumptuous about assigning a title to a particular color, like naming a star or a species or a mountain.” Thanks Magnetbox

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30th March 2004

Envelope and Letter Folding

“Why the Heck Would You Want to Fold an Envelope? If you are not into envelope and letter folding you may wonder why one should go to the trouble of folding up an envelope when you could just buy one from a stationery store. Well, first off, it is the very nature of hobbies that they tend not to be entirely practical. In spite of that, hand folding letters and envelopes is one of those rare intersections of decoration and practicality, where paper folding produces the satisfaction of making something useful and novel.”

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