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Will Rohan Answer?

Jul 16. 2015

This webstrip made me LOL today because I can relate all to well! You know you're pale when a friend makes a remark about your pale legs and you show them your tan lines to prove that this is your tan skin.In all seriousness though, I've learned to accept my pale skin and now wear sunscreen every day, even when I don't go out. I always tell my friends that Asian — especially Japanese! — sunscreen is the way to go, because the sun protection technology is more advanced, with better formulas that are usually a lot cheaper as well.(Don't believe me? Go read Why You Shouldn't Be Buying Your Sunscreen in America.)My favorite sunscreen, the Innisfree Eco Safety No Sebum Sun Milk SPF50+/PA+++, has sadly...

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What Crystal Knows About Me

May 06. 2015

Have you heard of Crystal?In short, it's a web app that attempts to analyze and summarize your personality through your web presence. Its main objective is to help improve communication — you can look up anyone you wish and their Crystal profile will tell you how best to communicate with them.Some have found the service "eerily accurate," while others find it problematic.Intrigued, I requested an invite and was granted access a couple of days later.I felt weird creeping on anyone I know — even J — so I decided to try the algorithm on myself.I wouldn't say that my Crystal profile is "eerily accurate." (But then again, it's only 40% confident that its analysis of me is correct.) For example, I practically...

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CSS Sans: A Typeface Made Purely of CSS

Mar 15. 2015

Yusuke Sugomori, who describes himself as a "creative technologist," has created a project called CSS Sans — a font collection that is created purely from CSS. A cool feature of the webpage is that as you mouse over a particular CSS class, the portion of the font for which it is responsible gets highlighted: Are there any real-life, practical uses for CSS Sans? Probably not. And you can't ignore the fact that all browsers render CSS slightly differently, so it may look crappy on older and/or less popular browers. (I'm using Chrome on a Mac.) But you gonna admit that it's a cool concept, and marvel at the strides CSS has made since I first started fiddling around with it in the early 2000's. ...

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