Less can be made a bit easier to read, too.

  export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[32m'  
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'  
  export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;31m'  
  export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'  
  export LESS=-R

Results in: http://i.imgur.com/MRKEm.png