"The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true."

As you may have heard, Crayola allowed actual children to rename crayon colors, and the children failed spectacularly. Ignoring the lame attempt at comedy in the actual post itself, this Gawker headline is my favorite commentary on the issue:

http://gawker.com/378432/gaylord-children-invent-gay-new-crayons

(Hey look, you don't even have to click the link!)

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There are a ton of Random Name Generators on the web, and most of them serve up improbable names that sound like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang characters.

But Unled is a clean and simple single-serving website that uses actual census data to offer two different kinds of random names. One is truly random like the other sites, but the other is based on the probability of certain names appearing, pairing up statistically likely names with...uh, other names that are...er. Look, I have no idea how it actually works, all I know is the second name sounds like an actual human being.

http://www.unled.net/

Hit reload to get four more. Beats flipping through the phone book. (Do they even still make those?)

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Ernest Hemingway on symbolism:

"No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things. The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true."

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