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title: Where did that piece of verse come from?
author: Steven
date: 2005-09-25 12:35:14
categories: 
- Musings
tags: 
- iridium
- os x
- software
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	Peter van der Krogt posted details of J. Carrington Sellars Chemistianity on the web. Realizing that I was building a new look for MacOSX that echoed Apple's old Platinum, I started looking around the web for information about metals that were similar to Platinum. When I reached Peter's site, this is what I found:

	

	IRIDIUM, Platinum's twin companion

	And to which it has a great resemblance,

	Is a white and brittle metal that fuses

	With difficulty in the Compound Blowpipe flame.

	

	It was so exactly what I was looking for, that I had to use it. Thank you so much Peter van der Krogt!