The Stop Sign Wasn’t Always Red. Yellow signs were used before there was a way produce a reflective material in red that would last.
We have the Mississippi Valley Association of State Highway Departments to thank for the stop sign’s iconic shape. In 1923, the association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today. The recommendations were based on a simple, albeit not exactly intuitive, idea: the more sides a sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes.
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posted by Obscure Reference
on Dec 13, 2011 -
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Regina Spektor is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist associated with the
anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. Incorporating "piano riffs and integrating moans, nonsense words, groans, gurglings, or warblings," Spektor has a pretty unique voice (Seattle
P-I: "an instrument with the agility of an athlete and the flexibility of a yogi") and style which incorporates "beatbox-style flourishes in the middle of ballads, or the use of a drum stick to tap rhythms on the body of the piano or chair" (
wiki). She's got a pretty unique voice and "
Fidelity" is a very unusual and rather enjoyable music video. Someone to keep an eye on
(although Mefites already had been doing so).
posted by WCityMike
on Jun 9, 2007 -
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