Nine consumer electronics firm agreed in February to standardize and promote a new format called "Blu-ray Disc" that uses a shortwave blue-violet laser to read more than two hours of high-definition content stored on a DVD-size platter.

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When I emerged from my plane at one end of the concourse, I saw red columns in front of me, and it was only as I walked down the concourse that I saw that the columns were becoming orange, then yellow, then green and blue and violet.

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If Jobs had been cool, the undercurrent suggested, he would have given the writer, Violet Blue, a big hug.

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Until last month, blogger and consultant Ben Metcalfe had been operating a web site, vb.ly, with writer and sex educator Violet Blue.

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When blogger Violet Blue--who has pictures of herself posing with her Apple laptop on her Web site--approached Jobs on the floor of the MacWorld Expo to ask for a photo, lightly touching his arm, Jobs rebuffed her.

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Backyard farmers focus on texture and taste, and on new breeds of chicken known as Easter Eggers, that lay blue, pink or violet eggs.

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She patched colors together in an ode to Wright's famous stainglass windows, relying on petrol blue, ruby, lavender, violet and camel.

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Blackberry's four cheeses--Singing Brook, Violet, Trefoil and Blackberry Blue--are made by cheesemaker Kristian Holbrook and his assistants, who the day I visited included a fresh-faced young woman named Heidi, lacking only a dirndl and a yen to yodel to pass for a Swiss milkmaid.

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