Two Random Bits

A quick post to share with you this bookmarklet, which strips all images from a page and turns it into black text on a white background. It’s an amalgamation of two bookmarklets I found here. (It is an absolutely huge bookmarklet if you look at the text — 2,761 characters!)

Another random bit, since it doesn’t seem to be in a lot of places on the Internet: numbering pages sequentially for easy reference is referred to as Bates stamping. Bates-stamped documents, in other words. A company named the Bates Manufacturing Company used to make a stamp that paralegals would use to sequentially number pages. Now, with Xerox machines that do this, as well as computers, the stamp is pretty outdated for most situations — but that’s the origin of the phrase, according to that link.

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