Since switching to the Opera browser I've been browsing more often with images turned off. It's great for sites who's only image content consists of ads. On pages where you want to see one or more of the images you have the choice of a single key press (shift-G) to load all images or right clicking on a single image to see it. Sometimes this uncovers interesting side aspects of a page, like this Denver Post story, Filtered underwear fights flatulence, where the image is titled "fartbig". On the E4Engineering site the image accompanying a story on bionic eyes is labelled "Brain New Web Pages". This is controlled by the little used ALT image tag, which is meant for providing appropriate text for browsers which are unable to display images (yes, there are a number of them). Newer versions of internet explorer shows this text if you put your mouse over the image for a few seconds. There are a couple ALTs on my page, but otherwise I've been sadly negligent. Maybe that's one way to sprinkle more easter eggs around the web?

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