I'm really glad someone on HN pointed me at the Readbility tool. I end up using it every day to make ugly pages easy to read.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

With apologies to Old Man Murray, that blog's Start to Readability time (StR) is about 0.5 seconds. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

[2] http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Seriously! White on grey?

Firebug FTW

Can you BELIEVE that there are people out there that are so stupid to use white on grey for their blog posts? </tongue in cheek>

For Opera users, you can change the styling of any page to black-on-white:

In Opera stable, it's view -> style -> High Contrast (B/W).

In the beta, it's page tools -> style -> High Contrast (B/W).

Ctrl-A and it's actually pretty nice.