This degrades the visual appearance quite a bit.

![screen shot 2014-05-28 at 17 12 54](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/218391/3107189/01cfd7bc-e683-11e3-8ca1-7eec27332b6c.png)
![screen shot 2014-05-28 at 17 13 47](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/218391/3107211/1023ffbe-e683-11e3-8763-3f87be736703.png)