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"And do you now begin to see why Christianity has always said that the devil is a fallen angel? That is not a mere story for the children. It is a real recognition of the fact that evil is a parasite, not an original thing. The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness."

- C.S. Lewis

Saturday, July 14, 2007

"The Real Relation, The Underlying Theme" *

Posted by Bill @ 8:28 pm CDT
Filed under: Nerdvana!

Thinklings Themes are back!

Only four of them, at this point, but with the upgrade to Bloo 1.00rc2, the revamped Theme Selector gives you the ability to customize your Thinklings experience. Check it out in the left navbar.

Here are the available themes (long-time readers may recognize these):

Cigar Band - a favorite of Rod's, if memory serves. This was his brainchild, and Rob T supplied the graphic.

Rodin - an introspective theme based off of Rodin's The Thinker.

Seven Samurai - this is the one you're used to seeing. This is another creation of Rod and Rob T.

Thinklings Classic - this venerable theme was our very first "look", from back in 2003. The "nexus" idea was Rod's, and he came up with it at one of our pre-blog Moots. The graphic was produced by Stroke.

As time allows, I'll roll out some more. In the meantime, check them out.

[* anyone get this reference?]

Update: I just enabled one of the themes that comes packaged with Bloo; it's called Quentin and is actually a port of a Wordpress theme. Just in case you want something classy looking and very different than the normal Thinklings themes . . .

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Comments on ""The Real Relation, The Underlying Theme" *":

1. Brian in Fresno - 07/14/2007 8:44 pm CDT

Cool, De!!! I know you're really busy... but will you eventually get Bloo set up so the themes rotate like the did with the old software?

2. De - 07/14/2007 8:54 pm CDT

Heh - maybe in the next version

3. TheCalvinator - 07/14/2007 9:36 pm CDT

*The Pictures are Moving

4. DLE - 07/14/2007 10:28 pm CDT

"Limelight" - Rush

5. De - 07/14/2007 11:07 pm CDT

Well done, Calvinator and DLE.

6. Bryon Scott - 07/14/2007 11:27 pm CDT

Arrg. They beat me to it.

At least he didn't use a reference from "Freewill."

7. Bryon Scott - 07/14/2007 11:48 pm CDT

Maybe a little inspiration for a new theme: http://www.slingsnarrows.com/images/thinklings-1.jpg

8. Bird - 07/14/2007 11:55 pm CDT

Thanks, De.

9. De - 07/15/2007 8:42 am CDT

Byron - did you already have that one? Or did you just whip that up?

One that I'd love to see is a chess theme of some sort. Any takers?

10. Bird - 07/15/2007 4:24 pm CDT

What theme are you guys using? I'm loving the cigar band theme myself.

De, it doesn't go to the theme, though, until I log in. Is that normal?

11. damien - 07/15/2007 4:43 pm CDT

i'm partial to the cigar band (and am tickled to have it back in all its red and gold glory). what a superb design job. it's reminiscent of vintage brands like partagas, upmann, fuente, royal jamaica, and romeo y julieta. who gets the credit for it?

12. Bird - 07/15/2007 6:43 pm CDT

damien,

I'm hungry for a smoke now.

13. Bryon Scott - 07/15/2007 9:36 pm CDT

Okee dokee. How about chess & MC Escher?

14. De - 07/15/2007 11:31 pm CDT

Hey - cool Bryon!

I created a chess theme tonight, using a concept I've been rolling around in my head for a bit. But thanks for that banner - I may do something with that one too.

15. Bird - 07/16/2007 7:37 am CDT

Bryon,

That's a cool banner!

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