Frequent visitors will have noticed that the site design and color scheme have been all over the place lately. For those that don’t know, I’m color blind (red-green-brown deficient), so picking colors that work together has always been a chore for me. That’s why I always need someone with me to buy clothes, etc.

8% of men worldwide are color-blind in some way, so, ladies, if your partner has no idea what’s going on with that purple/blue/red/green dress you chose, forgive him. He may be defective by birth. Men are 10-20 times more likely to be color-blind than women. That said, since men do not pass the X chromosome onto their offspring (the defect is passed in the X chromosome), it is the women who usually pass color-blindness onto the children even though the mother, herself, may not exhibit the condition. Yes ladies, yet another defect in your boyfriend you can blame his mother for.

On the other hand, recent studies (by the University of Cambridge) have shown that several color blind individuals can actually see in a different “color dimension” than normal-sighted people i.e. they are able to distinguish different colors using an altogether different criterion and experience the world in a different way. There, now you can’t say reading the BackWomb doesn’t educate.

Anyway, I noticed the site loads slowly on less-than-raging broadband connections, so I got rid of some of the background graphics. Hopefully the white background makes it easier to read too. Let me know if its uncomfortably bright.

There’s also a new BackWomb header font. Its… splotchy. I like! Screenshot of the new design inside. One love all.

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