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...report stressed that in the end, exit polls achieved what they were designed to do: assist news networks in deciding which states to color red and blue in the race for electoral votes...
...does this matter? Consider, for example, Gruhl's question about the color of the Web. WebFountain helped illustrate how culture, language and context all come into play on the Internet: in the U.S. and Europe, most websites are blue; Southeast Asian sites are typically red or orange. For companies planning on selling products in, say, India or China, developing a lime-hued Web presence may not be the smartest investment...
...kind of question you might expect from a kindergartner: "What color is the Web?" But for IBM scientist Dan Gruhl, there was nothing childish about it. A researcher with seven patents to his name, Gruhl, 32, is tasked with solving all sorts of lofty brainteasers. And when this question popped up, he wanted to solve it--quickly and definitively...
...shows. Visually, the CSIs are the most beautifully composed series on the networks. Each has its own color palette--neon for the original, set in Vegas; warm and tropical for Miami; metallic for New York--like the packaging for different flavors of chips (think of them as Original, Spicy Fiesta and Cool Ranch). And the special effects, which make the camera seem to zoom through blood vessels or the fiery barrel of a gun--render the forensic science more real than any dry technical explanation. The overexposed flashback images look like music videos, the lurid anatomical closeups like art film...
...present-day Japanese comic-strip art forms manga and anim?. And a more adventuresome exhibition might even have added some footage from ukiyo-e-inspired films like Kenji Mizoguchi's masterful 1947 biopic Utamaro and his Five Women. But that's quibbling. Better simply to enjoy the bounty of color and line, to relish the beauty of women and nature, on display in this extraordinary monument to a very special world. Better just to float...