I'm on a color roll here. About.com Contests Guide Sandra Grauschopf found this little gem. It's a Color Hue Test. No prizes but you get bragging rights for every point under 8 that you can achieve. Why 8? That's what I scored just now when I tried it. A score of 0 is the goal.

The object is to take four rows of 22 color chips and drag-n-drop 20 of them between two fixed end chips until you're satisfied they are in the correct hue order from end to end.

Looks easy when you first see the jumbled squares of color. Such obvious differences between green and gold or peach and lavender. Yeah. Wait til you start getting them all lined up and trying to discern the oh so subtle differences in four blocks of baby blue.

Once you're done you can compare your score against others in your age group. Go test your abilities to differentiate Color Hues then come back and tell us how you scored. I bet a bunch of you can put my 8 to shame. I'm going to try it again to see if I can do better.

I have extensive material on color symbolism -- what colors means culturally and how people react physically and emotionally to different colors. But here's a fun and interesting twist. At Cymbolism they give you a word and its meaning then you pick one of the 19 colors they offer that goes with that word in your mind -- words like classic, busy, or spring.

As you keep selecting colors the bottom of the page shows you your selections and how they stack up to what other site visitors chose. I found that I'm with the majority with some words but not so much so with many others. Some words just don't shout any specific color to me. How useful it might be I'm not sure but I can certainly spend a lot of time playing around with it. Tell me what you think of Cymbolism.

Mark your calendar for September 23. That's when Adobe is unveiling Creative Suite 4. You can sign up right now for a special "Something Brilliant" Webcast where Adobe will show everyone what CS4 is bringing to the world of desktop publishing.

Some people doodle out of boredom but doodling with a purpose is also a part of the design process (think thumbnail sketches). But whether you're bored or looking for inspiration there are some great doodles at doodlage. On my first visit I came away with tons of ideas. And it's not all doodling with a pen or pencil, there's also digi-doodling -- which is doodling on the computer. I've done that before but didn't know it had a name. Oh, and one of the posts lead me to the Flickr CDoodles Pool where some of the doodling is even done by scratching designs on a CD.

Doodle is a really funny word when you say it over and over again. And in reading doodlage I discovered all sorts of delightful new words and phrases. In addition to the aforementioned digi-doodling and CDoodles, there's advertdoodles, doodle-farmer, sneaker-doodle, animal doodlers (dogs and other pets who doodle), Labradoodles, DoodleEarth, scrapdoodling (that's doodling in scrapbooks), mole-doodle-skin (a moleskin notebook for doodling in), twig-doodles, out-doodles, doodlebuddy, and doodlishious to just name the first dozen I spotted. I'm still exploring the main blog and haven't even branched out to all the cool art, graphic design, and other sites linked throughout. Check it out. It's doodleriffic.