So what is it about red vs blue??

Red on the left, blue on the right, right?

Evidently there is an everyday reason for red on the left (could that be hot?) and blue on the right (cold?) if you don’t get your plumbing mixed up….. but there’s a whole nother world of red vs. blue out there.

Who knew?

That for a three button mouse, the left mouse button is the “red” button,, and the right-mouse button is the blue button. The one in the middle is yellow, but you don’t really need to know that.

That Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles is a machinima comic science fiction series distributed primarily through the Internet and DVD by Rooster Teeth Productions (who has created videos, some under commission from Microsoft). The series chronicles two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon.

Oh, and you used to be able to order 3D anaglyph glasses with a red lense on the left and a blue lense on the right...the kind you need to wear when reading 3D comic books or watching a 3D movie. .but the company closed in 2004.

The real fun begins when you start linking red vs blue to the political parties…because the left wing has typically been considered Democrat politics, and the media has decided to color code the Democrat states red, while the states that are primariy Republican have been color coded blue- hence, the red on the left, blue on the right explanation. But this one is up for debate.....

So the next time someone randomly asks you when you think of red and blue or blue and red which one is on the left and which on is on the right..don’t think too long and hard about it. A quick trip to the bathroom and the faucet on the sink produced the likely answer, although Google has yet to give up the obvious answer. But I swear I have never noticed the thin red line on the left hot water facet, nor the thin blue line on the cold water faucet before this evening.

But if you want to take full advantage of how technology plays a role in all this red vs blue hot vs cold thing, then go to Equa System’s Light Delight http://www.equasystem.com/eng/index.htm to see how the color of your water varies according to its temperature..by using light.

Except in Africa, where blue means hot and red means cold…..