Why My Color IIIIIIIIs (probably something purple) LAST UPDATE EVER!

Even More Righteously Bitchin' UPDATE! Current theory is that this works as advertised on any browser that inherits from the old NCSA Mosaic codebase (Mosaic, Spyglass, Netscape, IE, Mozilla, Gecko, and derivatives thereof). Once I got the ball rolling with Ardie (ardaniel) and the Geek-Out Gang (of which, Constant Readers, I am the least elitest of members), I got grabbed to clean a house and attend a party. After I came home, the latest algorithm failed for name length over twelve, so mad props for Yohimbe to extrapolating pairs to triplets to general-case little letter clusters. Anyway, the real, improved, tested and approved answer to names of more than six characters is below, and it's different from the last one.

So, okay, everyone and their cousin is happily trying the "look what my LJ color is!" thing. I have to admit, I tried it too, and to my complete lack of surprise, I came out a dark blue.

Why lack of surprise? Well, there's the overall metaphysical lack of surprise, but the real non-shocker was because I know how color codes work in HTML... or I thought I did.

Care to be initiated into the mysteries? Then follow... there are some oddball maths within if your relationship to numbers is strictly of the checkbook-balancing variety, but I really do try and explain thoroughly. Oh, and most people wind up on the purple spectrum, somewhere between lavender, magenta, and mauve.

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