whirlygirl palette:

010080 - background (blue)
C0C0FF - text (periwinkle)
FFFFFF - highlighted text (white)
91B791 - link and alink (green)
8A8DB4 - vlink (slate)
F5F694 - hover (yellow)

whirling .gif:

twirl starts at 300; decreases each time by 50
blur starts at 1.5; decreases each time by .25

images start as .psps... exported as progressive .jpgs... saved as non-interlacing .gifs
20/100th of a second between each frame.