Yesterday, Steve Souders announced the release of the HTTP Archive - a record of the ways, digitized content is distributed.

Techcrunch reports an accident at FLICKR where a complete user history with 4.000+ photos is instanteniously wiped out.

December 30, 2010 is the last day to get Kodachrome film processed (slide film is this thing where you have this beamer-like thingy, but without a signal cable, and put this floppy-disc like things in, but smaller and see-through and such and put an image on a wall, like with powerpoint but more colorful).

In my previous post Less requests is better I presented a simple example to use the data-URI scheme to transfer image data to a web application.

The common conception is, that reducing the amount of requests by using JSONP instead of single image requests, makes a web application faster. But that's only true for very limited use cases.

The img tag in HTML is one of the oldest tags. But it is somewhat limited in its ability to talk to a web server.
The URL points to a ressource, that hopefully resolve to an image file, the browser understands.

Image operations on graphic files are somewhat quite difficult to implement.
What if

Page impressions, that is.

I've always been loving the Big Picture at the Boston Globe.
What a wonderful idea: present stunning images without any fancy scrolling, whoosing or mouseovering whatsoever.
Just some really big images, a few explaining lines and of you go.

I just received this wonderful new book. Christian Westphalen, the author, has again collected splendid examples and astonishingly easy step-by-step guides for some serious pixel pushing with Photoshop Elements.