Sunday, December 04, 2005

The new purple

Brown is the new purple. Now for those of you keeping score, this is a change from last month when brown was the new almond, purple was the new peach, and white was the new eggshell. It is also a sharp contrast from early in the summer when thistle became the new gainsboro and pale violet became the new salmon.

The fashion and interior decorating world's constant color swapping has effectively rendered existing RGB and Hexadecimal color maps useless. Never mind the hundreds of billions of dollars of televisions, computer monitors, graphics equipment, and latex paint that now have to be junked because designers in New York and Paris cannot settle on which color is which. Our landfills are already full of obselete technology leaching mercury, lead, and countless other toxins into our soil and water tables, and the target markets of E! and the Style Network just keep sending truckloads more there each day.

Effective immediately, I am declaring a rebalance and lockdown on the color palette. Black is black. Purple is purple. Periwinkle is Periwinkle, and so on. You may now go about your lives in peace. Thank you.

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