BROWN IS BACK?!?!?!

[Conrad Knauer]

On 10/1/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:

> One of the least popular colors in the rainbow (oh wait, it's not even
> there) is back?
> I thought that had *finally* been killed off a year ago.
> 'm referring to the default background (wallpaper) in Gutsy in case
> anyone doesn't know what this is about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distribution)#Releases
has a bunch of cute thumbnails showing the default backgrounds for all
the releases; The current Gutsy art reminds me most of Dapper.

> Suppose you polled a random group of say 500 people and asked them what
> they thought of the color brown, what do you suppose they might say?

In polite company, "chocolate" or "UPS"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Parcel_Service Their slogan is in
fact "What can Brown do for you?") ;P

CK