This week I’ve been home sick because of a serious attack of Man Flu.
Since I felt so miserable I couldn’t even take advantage of it and play video games while complaining on the sofa, I just stayed in bed, still complaining but fiddling with my iPhone.

After only a few hours I finished reading the entire Internet and I started to get bored, so I thought it was the right moment to do those kind of things you never have the time to sort out, like rearranging my favourite links and bookmarks.
I soon realised I had lots and lots of websites saved there for reasons I couldn’t even remember, things maybe five years old that had already disappeared into the black holes of the net.

After having deleted all the obsolete and unused bookmarks I still felt uneasy for some reason but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Then the light struck me: I needed The Method. How could I store my bookmarks and favs even better than I already do?
After a couple more hours of browsing and casual complaining I ended up subscribing to Instapaper and Pinboard, both of which have wonderful plugins you can install on Chrome.
Pinboard even has an iPhone app that allows you to save pages from Safari, to read later.
I am a much better person now: my favourite folder is clean and tidy, I can save interesting stuff from my RSS reader for later (yes, that does mean on the toilet) and, like, once a week I can go through the things I’ve saved and then delete them.

Yesterday I made the first periodic clean up, noticing that I mostly save websites with pretty pictures, which gave me the idea of a weekly post where I dump all the pretty pictures I’ve found the week before.

So, here they are.

Last week was both Fat Tuesday all around the world and Holi in India, events involving loads and loads of pretty pictures.
Here’s a link to various Images related to Carnival

and here some to Holi

A friend of mine, a professional photographer, went there and I can’t wait to see the ones he took.

Then I found an article about rocks that look like human faces. Nothing new really, there are a couple of rocks in Sardegna, famous because they look like giant penises, but those would make an awkward blog post, so here’s the more civilized link.

Last week also saw Shuttle Discovery’s last mission, so here are some really nice pictures of this glorious spaceship.

BONUS: Black& White WTF for a few minutes of genuine fun