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Some people may not enjoy the green-on-black text, so this might be of use: http://www.readability.com/articles/dirqhjff http://www.readability.com/articles/di
by someone13 15y ago
Some people may not enjoy the green-on-black text, so this might be of use:
http://www.readability.com/articles/dirqhjff http://www.readability.com/articles/dirqhjff
- pelemele 15y agoThe color scheme is not random. He is probably an old timer like me remembering old green/black monochrome 14" monitors. http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2011-04-24-ibm-xt-with-mono-monitor.jpg http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2011-04-24-i...
- Vivtek 15y agoGreen and black monitors didn't rip my retinas to shreds. This does. I think he just does it because he can, part of the whole jwz f-bomber persona.
- someone13 15y agoOh, of course - I own one myself! But it's rather hard on the eyes, so I keep the Readability bookmarklet around :-)
- draven 15y agoUse the phosphor screensaver (written by jwz) in the xscreensaver distribution together with Lynx/Elinks, as it can function as a terminal emulator: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -scale 1 -program "lynx -dump http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se... | less"
- renownedmedia 15y agoWhat could possibly be more readable than the phosphorous CRT look? :p
- dminor 15y agoI find this Chrome extension pretty handy for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbpiflhmdcklcbihngeffpmoklbiooj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbpiflhmdcklcbihn...
- SonicSoul 15y agoi've been using Gleebox for chrome and Firefox to get readibility links for any article. just type "g !read" and it saves history so next time it's just "g !" !