Gorgeous Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Photos
From The Big Picture, here are some gorgeous photos from the first half of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to enjoy.
London, 1927 – in its true colors
Witness London in color from the year 1927. Apparently this is one of the rare films that were shot in color, rather than colorized after-the-fact. A breathtaking silent film.
via Color Video of London in 1927 – Neatorama.
Readability – works for iPhone / iPod Touch
A little while ago I wrote about a handy web app called Readability, which reformats the often overwhelming mashup that is the web into a classy, easy-on-the-eyes newspaper-like column for reading.
It turns out Readability works great on the iPhone too!
Take this Ars Technica article for example:
And turn it into this with Readability:
3 Indispensable Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
During my limited tenancy as a web designer, there were a couple constant annoyances that were like thorns on my side:
- Figuring out HTML / RGB color codes when developing and styling pages.
- Finding out the proper sizes to scale images to, depending on the nature and content of the page.
Haiti six days later
People run toward a U.S. helicopter as it makes a water drop near a country club used as a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,