Holy Molly! This is some unbelievable footage! And what’s even more unbelievable is that the guy actually survived with the following:
Compression Fracture of the T12 Vertebra, 5 stitches to the eye, 6 stitches to the chin, severely sprained Back, wrist and hand. multiple bruised areas.
Discovered via Kottke.
A simple jQuery plugin to extract the dominant color of an image and apply it to the background of its parent element.
Atwood’s Law – any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript – seems to be getting more and more traction. Here is the newest example – Vim.js – a JavaScript port of the popular editor Vim.
This is not a production day-to-day ready software yet, but it’s a good start. You can check out the project from GitHub and play with the source code.
Official Gmail Blog lets us know that the latest update to Gmail now safely shows external images. Most other email programs and services disable image show by default, because these can either contain all kinds of malware, or they can be used for tracking. Gmail solves it now by downloading those images and serving them to users from its own servers.
But thanks to new improvements in how Gmail handles images, you’ll soon see all images displayed in your messages automatically across desktop, iOS and Android. Instead of serving images directly from their original external host servers, Gmail will now serve all images through Google’s own secure proxy servers.
So what does this mean for you? Simple: your messages are more safe and secure, your images are checked for known viruses or malware, and you’ll never have to press that pesky “display images below” link again. With this new change, your email will now be safer, faster and more beautiful than ever.
I’m not the biggest fan of HTML emails, but since I have not much choice in this area, I’d rather receive emails with images – at least I won’t be trying to make sense of empty layouts with no text anymore.
The bright new and shiny version – WordPress 3.8 – is available for download. As I mentioned previously, the biggest change is the reworked administration area that now scales well to smaller screens, like those of smartphones and tablets. It’s far from perfect, but at least it works now. I’m sure there will be more changes and improvements in the upcoming versions.
But that’s of course not the only change. The administration area has changed a lot – more contrast, different icons, improved typography, and now even with color schemes. Also, theme preview and management got changed quite a bit. With the new theme management interface, the screenshots are larger, which, unfortunately, makes them blur out a bit until theme developers will update with higher resolution versions.