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I like this website:  http://www.mnn.com/. 
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Visualize the color orange. What does it mean or symbolize? The first thing that comes to mind is the fruit of the orange tree. But there are other things. The first thing that came up on a google search was www.orange.com, which is a major brand of telecommunications in France. There is an Orange county in Calif., N.Y., Tex., N.C. & Fla. that I know of, & there's probably other states that have an orange county. There's even a T.V. show about Orange County Choppers (from N.Y.), where they show how they make the most famous custom motorcycles in the world. In Calif. we also have the city of Orange, in fact, some of the streets were designed by my uncle, years ago, when he worked for the City of Orange as an engineer. Connecticut has a town called Orange, there's an Orange in Va., Tex., Iowa, Ohio, Ct., Ind., there's a West Orange in N.J., & an Orange Beach in Alabama. Orange is also an iPHONE & iPOD game. Orange is a brand of amplifiers. YouTube has a video called Annoying Orange. Then there's that awful stuff called "agent orange". There's a big art attraction in Houston, Texas called the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. The "Daily Orange” is an independent student newspaper in Syracuse, N.Y. Over in Costa Mesa we have the Orange Coast College. The Orange Bowl football game is a big annual event. There's even a blog called: "howaboutorange.blogspot.com", which is about craft tutorials, decorating tips, design inspiration & free downloads. The orange jumpsuit was made famous by inmates & prisoners. Orange means many things to many people. Many places are called Orange. If you've ever seen things under an orange light, it seems to give the effect of things being "strange", “eerie“ & “mysterious“. Probably the most important thing about orange is the color of orange. We see the color orange every day & all the time, but we just take it for granted.

According to Wikipedia, the color orange occurs between the red & yellow in the visible spectrum, & at a wavelength of about 585-620 nm. (whatever that means). The complimentary color of orange is supposed to be blue, although it goes very well with olive green or with black. It also goes well in the Autumn colors of brown, gold & red. The web color of orange is defined as FFA500. Orange is the national color of the Netherlands. Orange is the traditional color for many colleges including: Auburn Univ., Boise State Univ., Bowling Green State Univ., Caltech, Clemson Univ., Fla. A&M Univ., Univ. of Fla., Univ. of Ill. (Urbana-Champaign), Univ. of Miami, Ok. State Univ., Or. State Univ., Princeton Univ., Syracuse Univ., Univ. of Tenn., Univ of Tx. (Austin), Univ. of Tx. (El Paso), Univ. of Va. & Va. Tech. Countries with the color orange in their flags include: Armenia, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Niger, Sicily, Sri Lanka, Togo, South Vietnam, Zambia & Zimbabwe.

Orange is a warm color. Many think of it as Flamboyant & energetic. It’s not as intense & aggressive as the color red because it has some of the cheerfulness of yellow in it. Orange is thought to stimulate emotions & appetite. The season that orange rules is Autumn, it’s day is Halloween. If you want to get noticed without screaming, just wear orange clothes. One thing about the color orange - people seem to either love it or hate it. According to practitioners of yoga & meditation, the color orange represents the Sacral Chakra, which is near the sexual organs. Therefore, they consider it to stimulate sexuality & emotions. In China and Japan, orange is used to symbolize happiness and love. To gemstone collectors orange is a powerful color. It is one of the healing colors. It is said to increase the craving for food. It also stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Orange means vitality with endurance. People who like orange are usually thoughtful and sincere. Lady luck's color is orange. I have been told that if a change of any kind is needed in life, just burn an orange candle for 7 nights. The orange energy of gemstones creates curiosity & exploration, it spices things up when things seem to be dragging.

One group, “The Color Orange .net” tried to use the color orange at the 2008 Olympics in China, to protest against human rights violations. To counter that, China tried to ban the color orange at the Olympics. This demonstrates the POWER of the color orange.

　

HOW MY RESEARCH ABOUT ORANGE RELATES TO MY IDEAS FOR MY WEBSITE

I’m seriously thinking of doing my font using orange, with a black or dark background. I like the color orange. It’s catchy, it stands out & it has zest! The content on my webpage I’m planning to have I’m hoping will stand out like the color orange. To me orange symbolizes strangeness, & I’m going to have a section of my sight called, “Strange World”, which will be devoted to strange anomalies. Since I consider myself a futurist, I may later create a section devoted to the future, called, “Future World”. The color orange seems to represent these things by being exciting, energetic, emotional, intense, strange, eerie, mysterious & jazzing things up.