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            • October 12, 2005

              Top One(1) Reason Not To Use "Blaring-In-Your-Face" Red as The Background Color For Your Website

            • If you're wondering why this isn't the normal "Top Five(5) Reasons..." list the answer is simple: When you visit this site(which apparently is the first public web site to be hosted on a Sony PSP device), read through some of the content(long enough such that your eyes become "normalized" to the "Blaring-In-Your-Face" red background - 30-45 secs should do) and then click one of the www.PSPProject.NET links listed on the page you should immediattely discover why only one reason is needed, which is:

              * The "snow blinding" effect that takes place when you go from a "Blaring-In-Your-Face" red background to a stark white backround in which is the base of the www.PSPProject.NET site.

              OWE!!!! I'm still seeing stars, and its been a good 3 minutes since I left that site (never to return!, BTW)

              [WARNING: If you choose to follow the above links and try out the "experiment" you are doing so on your own free will with the warning that the blinding effect that this experiment may cause doesn't exactly hurt, but it doesn't tickle either. Consider yourself warned. :)]

            • Posted by m.david : October 12, 2005 12:26 AM GMT

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