I'm not trying to underestimate anybody. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this material is not exactly on-brand for a monthly razor company, hence the surprise.
The plugin uses the getImageData method on the Image object. It iterates over a portion of the pixels in an image, keeping track of color occurrences. It then returns the most dominant color and any other highly occurrent colors.
I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.
In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.
I didn't mean to be harsh. "Never assume you won't hit the front page of a major traffic driver" is just kind of a lesson that everyone has to learn for themselves.
I have fall in love with Strava - minimal iOS running app (http://app.strava.com/mobile). I am not affiliated with them in any way.
I can also second Hal Higdon's site above.
A lot of people in a recent half marathon I ran were using the half marathon as a staging ground for their full marathon. By running a half marathon/5k/10k you can get a feel for what running an actual race feels like, which is invaluable.
Surely the GPS is an OS thing, so that apps just request latitude and longitude (etc) and the OS/GPS chip does all the relevant computations leaving no room for different apps to have different accuracies.(Other than different smoothing algorithms layered.)
